1. a slender main character who isn't the most book smart but as a big heart and a traumatic past. these people always have a twinkle in their eyes and usually a good smile.
2. at least one pompous asshole type who partied too hard in college and med school but gets by because they are attractive, a liar, and ultimately a charmer. this character usually ends up dating half the cast.
3. the all attractive older wise doctor who everyone pawns after until he settles down with one of the other characters in the show. think clooney from ER, mcdreamy from greys, etc.
4. a place where all the doctors drink after work. most doctor shows also have someone who loves tequila and is debates an alcoholic. why have no surgeons sued tv networks for portraying them all as drinking obsessed nocturnal freaks. either surgeons are too busy to watch tv, or are truly drunk at the bars every moment of their free time.
5. a chronically ill patient who steals the heart of one of the characters. if the show goes on long enough, there is eventually more than one.
6. the perfect, usually ivy league graduate, OCD, competitive freak that you know you would absolutely despise in real life, but no one on the show ever has a problem with. they are heartless until they kill a patient, then they are depressed, then heartless again. even if they killed a patient in their past, before the show starts, they are eventually in their heartless stage again by the time in their lives that the show takes place at.
7. an unlimited supply of fake "epy injections". even I know at this point that if someone dies without being cut open, you induce them to have an elliptic seizure. "GET ME AN EPY NOW".
8. at least one black doctor that is the shit. even scrubs has turk. no other genre of show makes such an effort to have black people presented as intellectuals who save lives. i'm not saying it's bad, it's just true. jambo. this doctor uses comprises atleast one half of the guarenteed interacial couple on the show, and is often combined with another non white.
9. an either super weird or super badass chief of surgery. the chief may try and retire, but he never will. I should have said he/she, but it's always a man. doctor shows are openly sexist.
10. a truly minimal number of nurses. even if they are in the OR with scrubs, they aren't usually identified by name and just usually hand the surgeons the scapels. doctor shows are generous if they name the nurses, and under normal circumstances there isn't more than one.
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