Borys Surawicz & Beverly Jacobson, “Doctors in Fiction”, 2009, was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Borys Surawicz & Beverly Jacobson, “Doctors in Fiction”, 2009, PART TWO (II).
INTRODUCTION.
The fictional doctors presented in this blog post represent a major character in SciFi and other novels. My top five (5) favorite Fictional Doctors are BELOW, and other are in the table BENEATH.
1. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, Dracula, Bram Stoker.
2. Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley.
3. Dr. Henry Jekyll, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson.
4. Dr. Alphonse Moreau, The Island of Dr. Moreau, H. G. Wells.
5. Dr. John H. Watson, A Study in Scarlet and other Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle.
| Literature Works | Fictional Doctors | Author |
| Adventures of a Black Bag | Dr. Finlay | A. J. Cronin |
| And Then There Were None | Dr. Edward George Armstrong | Agatha Christie |
| The Andromeda Strain | Dr. Charles Burton | Michael Crichton |
| *** | Dr. Mark Hall | |
| *** | Dr. Peter Leavitt | |
| *** | Dr. Jeremy Stone | |
| Arrowsmith | Dr. Martin Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| Alpha and Omega | Dr. Rashid | Patricia Briggs |
| Aubrey–Maturin series | Dr. Stephen Maturin | Patrick O’Brian |
| Bert Diaries | Emilia Ridderfjell’s parents | Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson[7] |
| Blood Poppy | Dr. Chang | Jay Black |
| Breakheart Pass | Dr. Molyneaux | Alistair MacLean |
| A Burnt-Out Case | Dr. Colin | Graham Greene |
| Candide | Dr. Pangloss | Voltaire |
| Catch-22 | Dr. “Doc” Daneeka | Joseph Heller |
| Chromosome 6 | Dr. Jack Stapleton | Robin Cook |
| The Circus of Dr. Lao | Dr. Lao | Charles G. Finney |
| The Citadel | Dr. Andrew Manson | A. J. Cronin |
| Contagion | Dr. Jack Stapleton | Robin Cook |
| Conversations with the Devil | Dr. Sarah Lynch | Jeff Rovin |
| Crisis | Dr. Jack Stapleton | Robin Cook |
| Critical | Dr. Jack Stapleton | Robin Cook |
| The Dead Zone | Dr. Sam Weizak | Stephen King |
| Discworld | Dr. John “Mossy” Lawn | Terry Pratchett |
| Doctor Almasaro, or The Jews of Palermo | Dr. Almasaro | Abraham Goldfaden |
| Dr. Futurity | Dr. Jim Parsons | Philip K. Dick |
| The Doctor’s Dilemma | Doctor Blenkinsop | George Bernard Shaw |
| Doctor Glas | Dr. Glas | Hjalmar Söderberg |
| Doctor Grattan | Dr. Grattan | William A Hammond[8] |
| Doctor Herbeau | Dr. Herbeau | Jules Sandeau |
| Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment | Dr. Heidegger | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Doctor is Sick | Dr. Edwin Spindrift | Anthony Burgess |
| Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler | Dr. Mabuse | Norbert Jacques |
| Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh | Dr. Christopher Syn | Russell Thorndike |
| and other Dr. Syn novels | *** | |
| Doctor Zhivago | Dr. Yuri Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| Dracula | Dr. Abraham Van Helsing | Bram Stoker |
| *** | Dr. John Seward | *** |
| Dune | Dr. Wellington Yueh | Frank Herbert |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Dr. Gonzo (honorary) | Hunter S. Thompson |
| Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | Dr. Victor Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| The Great Gatsby | Dr. T.J. Eckleburg | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Herbert West–Reanimator | Dr. Herbert West | H. P. Lovecraft |
| The House of Dr. Edwardes | Dr. Anthony Edwardes | Hilary A. Saunders |
| *** | Dr. Constance Peterson | *** |
| The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu | Dr. Fu Manchu | Sax Rohmer |
| *** | Dr Petrie | *** |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Dr. Alphonse Moreau | H. G. Wells |
| Journey to the End of the Night | Dr. Ferdinand Bardamu | Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
| Jurassic Park | Dr. Henry Wu | Michael Crichton |
| Looking Backward, 2000-1887 | Dr. Leete | Edward Bellamy |
| Macbeth | Doctor | William Shakespeare |
| Madame Bovary | Charles Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Marker | Dr. Jack Stapleton | Robin Cook |
| Mercy Thompson (series) | Dr. Samuel Llewellyn Cornick | Patricia Briggs |
| Mercy Thompson (series) | Dr. Darryl Zao | Patricia Briggs |
| Middlemarch | Dr. Tertius Lydgate | George Eliot |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Dr. Constantine | Agatha Christie |
| Naked Lunch | Benway | William S. Burroughs |
| Necropolis | Dr. Horace Couchman | Basil Copper |
| The Patchwork Girl of Oz and other OZ books | Dr. Pipt | L. Frank Baum |
| Paper Towns | Dr. Jefferson Jefferson | John Green |
| Phantoms | Dr. Timothy Flyte | Dean Koontz |
| *** | Dr. Jennifer Paige | *** |
| The Plague | Dr. Bernard Rieux | Albert Camus |
| Professor Bernhardi | Professor Bernhardi, and Doctor Wenger | Arthur Schnitzler |
| Pygmalion | Dr. Henry Higgins | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Seagull | Dorn | Anton Chekhov |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | Thomas Harris |
| The Story of Doctor Dolittle: | Dr. John Dolittle | Hugh Lofting |
| Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home | *** | |
| and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts Never Before Printed | *** | |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Henry Jekyll | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| *** | Dr. Hastie Lanyon | *** |
| A Series of Unfortunate Events | Dr. Montgomery Montgomery | Lemony Snicket |
| A Study in Scarlet and other Sherlock Holmes stories | Dr. John H. Watson | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Southern Victory Series | Dr. Leonard O’Doull | Harry Turtledove |
| Tender is the Night | Dick Diver | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus | Dr. Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| Treasure Island | Dr. David Livesey | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Uncle Vanya | Astrov | Anton Chekhov |
| Vector | Dr. Jack Stapleton | Robin Cook |
| Water Margin | An Daoquan | Shi Nai’an |
| Women of the Otherworld (novel) | Dr. Clayton Danvers | Kelley Armstrong |
| Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | Dr. Dillamond | Gregory Maguire |
| A Young Doctor’s Notebook | Dr. Vladimir “Nika” Bomgard | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| 4.50 From Paddington | Dr. John Quimper | Agatha Christie |
