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In Honor of Doctors Day — Yes, That’s a Real Thing — We’re Counting Down Soaps’ 25 Greatest MDs of All Time
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
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It was way back on March 30, 1842, when general anesthesia was used for the first time in surgery. And it is this day every year that has been thereafter designated Doctors Day.
Also, yes, it’s real. Google it! We don’t make up this [bleep]! (Not often, anyway.)
In honor of the holiday, Soaps.com is strapping on a stethoscope and counting down daytime’s best doctors ever. And we know you’ll quibble with some of the rankings. We get it — we wouldn’t be daytime fans if we weren’t at any given moment only one wrong remark away from a cake fight.
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Above: One of these doctors was “scrubbed” from the list. Wanna guess which one?
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Included in our list of the best of the best are a Dr. Feel-Good from The Young and the Restless who’s been known to cause palpitations, a General Hospital MD for whom “making the rounds” had an altogether different meaning, a Days of Our Lives mainstay who put the “care” in “healthcare” and a doc from The Bold and the Beautiful who…
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Well, he hasn’t lost a patient yet.
Hey, that’s something.
Wanna see who made the cut? Just click on the photo gallery below. Then, be sure to come back and hit the comments with the doctors you can’t believe we managed to omit from the list.
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1/24
<p>The hospital’s brilliant former chief of staff probably would’ve ranked higher on this list, were she not so inclined to disregard the Hippocratic Oath; <em>doing</em> rather than <em>undoing</em> harm is sorta her thing.</p>
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2/24
<p>If you overlook the time she reattached her babydaddy’s severed penis upside-down, she was really quite a reliable… What? Oh. Fine, then. Focus if you must on the upside-down-penis incident.</p>
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3/24
<p>OK, so he may be more of a mad scientist than a traditional doctor. Stefano DiMera’s devoted henchman is still the guy you’d want paged if you needed to be brought back from the dead.</p>
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4/24
<p>Though Finn is new to the scene, he’s thus far impressed us with his ability to make scrubs look stylish and his disinterest in chucking his medical career to become a designer — you know, like… </p>
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5/24
<p>She spent all those years studying to be a doctor, only to decide one day that instead of stitching up wounds, what she <em>really</em> wanted to do was sew haute-couture gowns for Jackie M.</p>
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6/24
<p>To tell you the truth, we can’t recall a single patient that Steve Hardy’s son ever cured. But does anyone <em>not</em> remember the reputation that he earned for his, ahem, bedside manner?</p>
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7/24
<p>Whether you were on his operating table or in his bed, you were in good hands with Riverside Hospital’s finest — and yes, the egotist would’ve been the first to tell you so. Probably the second, too.</p>
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8/24
<p>The minute flirtatious Dr. Feel-Good hit Port Charles, demand rose as rapidly as heart rates for sponge baths and physicals. Coincidence? We think not.</p>
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9/24
<p>His ethics left something to be desired — like, you know, <em>ethics</em>. However, the creator of Libidozone was such a genius that he all but erased the need to ever call “time of death” on a patient.</p>
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10/24
<p>So unorthodox a thinker was Collinwood’s resident doctor that she probably <em>could’ve</em> cured Barnabas Collins of vampirism — if she hadn’t been so distracted by the way he made her go all hot-blooded.</p>
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11/24
<p>A true doc star, Finn not only came up with a remedy for Blackwoods Disease, he donated the vast sums that he earned from his miracle cure to save the hospital at which he works.</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
12/24
<p>How dedicated to her profession is University Hospital’s youngest MD? Even when she’s scrubbed out for the day, she can often still be found playing doctor. Right, Xander?</p>
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13/24
<p>Like any dedicated healer, this second-generation doctor would like to think that patients improve when in his care. Instead, their temperatures only seem to rise. Go figure.</p>
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14/24
<p>It’s no wonder Noah’s son was such a great neurosurgeon. Before he found true love and adjusted his attitude, he was the kind of arrogant womanizer to whom people were always giving a piece of their mind.</p>
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15/24
<p>The saying “Doctor, heal thyself” could have been coined for this MD, who remained lovesick over wife Karen even after learning that her hobbies included turning tricks.</p>
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16/24
<p>Imagine you’re feeling crummy. You need a reassuring word and, well, maybe a shot of penicillin. Whose face do you want to see? Whose voice do you wanna hear? Yeah, Lucas’ dad is <em>our</em> go-to, too.</p>
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17/24
<p>An added bonus of having <em>this</em> University Hospital physician treating you is that, if her prescription alone doesn’t do the trick, she can always pour you a tall cold one at her family’s pub.</p>
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18/24
<p>When you think about it, it makes sense that the Bickersons would be brilliant healers. They’d <em>have</em> to have learned a whole lot about wounds in all the years they inflicted emotional ones upon each other.</p>
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19/24
<p>Calm and methodical, stalwart and steady, the chief of staff of Pine Valley Hospital dispensed not only top-notch medical care but, free of charge, invaluable words of wisdom.</p>
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20/24
<p>At a time when the medical field was considered a man’s world, the MVP of Hope Memorial Hospital shattered misconceptions and blazed a trail that many a wonder woman has followed.</p>
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21/24
<p>You know how you can tell Robert and Anna’s daughter isn’t a good but a great doctor? She’s the rare one who gets kidnapped when a baddie needs an insta-cure for, say, plutonium poisoning.</p>
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22/24
<p>Besides being good for what ailed a <em>whole</em> lotta patients over the course of her career (<a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/587169/all-my-children-pine-valley-reboot-characters-needed-to-succeed/" target="_blank">which may not be over yet</a>), Frankie’s mom passed along the healing touch to the next generation.</p>
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23/24
<p>Whether you needed a sympathetic ear or a complicated diagnosis, you couldn’t make a wiser decision than to make an appointment with University Hospital’s longtime chief of staff.</p>
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24/24
