How past and present TV doctors would've handled the coronavirus pandemic

Entertainment Weekly

EW tries to envision how Grey's Anatomy's Dr. Meredith Grey, House's Dr. Gregory House, Lost's Dr. Jack Shephard Scrubs' Dr. J.D. Dorian, The Resident's Dr. Conrad Hawkins, The X Files' Dana Scully, Outlander's Dr. Claire Randall Fraser, Firefly's Dr. Simon Tam and even Doctor Who's The Doctor would tackle our current coronavirus crisis. "If anything, Dr. House would be called on to help with the influx of COVID-19 patients flooding the ER and clinic and inevitably stumble upon the one person who appeared to have coronavirus but actually had some other rare disease that only presented like the virus," Chancellor Agard says of Hugh Laurie's House character, Meanwhile, Gillian Anderson's Scully, a doctor and FBI agent, "would do what she does best: roll up her sleeves and save some lives. After pulling an 18-hour shift volunteering in the ICU, she’d then use her government connections to try to get supplies rerouted to hospitals in need, before treating herself to a bagel (one with real cream cheese, of course)," says Devan Coggan.

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