Okay friends,

In the spirt of keeping things a liitle light for Summertime, I've devised a little quiz for y'all.  I call it Name that M.D.

Below is a series of pictures of (in)famous doctors--real and fictional.  Your goal:  Name as many as you can.  Answers and scoring are below.  Good luck soldier!

 #1

 hint:  First Chief of Staff of Johns-Hopkins Hospital

#2

Hint: 80's heartthrob who wishes he had Jessie's Girl

 #3

Hint: Holographic only

#4

Hint: The only pediatrician whose office is in a cave on the Afghan-Pakistan Border

#5

Hint: Oath

#6

Hint: Terry Schiavo

#7

Hint: May the Force Be With You

#8

Hint:  Call me if you're in the mood to kill yourself

 #9

Hint: I'm not giving you a hint on this one--it's too easy!

#10

Hint: the only doctor who can dunk!

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Answers:

#1: Sir William Osler:  the father of modern medicine

#2:  Dr. Noah Drake (actor/"singer" Rick Springfield) from my wife's favorite soap--General Hospital

#3: the Doctor--from Star Trek: Voyager

#4: Ayman al-Zawahiri:  Bin-Laden's second, and really, he's a pediatrician. 

#5: Hippocrates:  Need I say more?

#6:  Former U.S. Senator Bill Frist:  His Harvard medical alums wrote him a letter condemning in early 2005 after he stood up on the Senate Floor and diagnosed Terry Schiavo as not in a persistent vegetative state  after watching a video of her. 

#7: Surgeon Droid:  the doctor that put Luke Skywalker's robotic hand on him in The Empire Strikes Back after daddy Darth Vader cut it off.

#8:  Jack Kevorkian:  "doctor death" who performed assisted suicide procedures. and went to jail for it.

#9:  Marcus Welby (portrayed by actor Robert Young).  Welby is still the archetype of the old school, paternal doctor (for better or for worse)

#10: Dr. J:  Some of you may argue that Julius Erving isn't a real doctor.  But before Michael Jordan, before Kobe Bryant, before Vince Carter, he conducted basketball clinics in the old ABA and in the NBA.  And he was the first to dunk by lifting off from the free throw line.  That makes him an MD to me!

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Score Yourself and put it in a comment (I'll tabulate it and post the results soon)

Number correct                               Ranking:

9-10                                                      Chief of Staff

7-8                                                         Practicing Doctor

5-6                                                         Resident

3-4                                                         Intern

1-2                                                       Medical Student

0-1                                                       Maybe you should try dental school