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This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.

Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603)[https://books.google.com/books?id=tsvYAAAAMAAJ&q=first&pg=PA270 The doctor in history, literature, folk-lore, etc] edited by William Andrews p.9 with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wK0WAAAAYAAJ&dq=doctors+literature&pg=PA576-IA11 | title=The Popular Science Monthly| year=1884}} and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors".[https://books.google.com/books?id=fim6AAAAIAAJ&q=lady+doctor&pg=PA81 Doctor and patient] By Silas Weir Mitchell p.81 Solomon Posen had collected a list of books with "a doctors as a principal figure" which he says resulted in a list of over 10,000 works as of 2005.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPeRfe717usC&dq=%22The+Doctor+in+Literature%22+%22Solomon+Posen%22&pg=PP10 Doctors in fiction: lessons from literature] By Borys Surawicz, Beverly Jacobson

Early cinematic and television representations of doctors typically characterized the practice of medicine as being "in safe (male) hands,"[https://books.google.com/books?id=YbrE3S2pDE4C&dq=doctors+in+television&pg=PA51 Frames and fictions on television: the politics of identity within drama] By Bruce Carson, Margaret Llewellyn-Jones p. 51 with 90% of doctors on television through 1989 being male.[https://books.google.com/books?id=zWK0AAAAIAAJ&q=doctors+in+television The psychology of television] John C. Condry p. 76