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* Doc Potter in the 2007 remake of ''{{3:10 to Yuma}}''. He gets dragged along with the posse against his will, and his medical knowledge does come in useful a few times (despite the fact that he's actually a veterinarian) [[spoiler: before he's killed off, because he's played by Alan Tudyk]].

* While true of many heroic fantasy RPGs, many darker games avert this trope by making healing magic rare, unavailable, weak, or corrupting. For example, you can play a physician (or equivalent) in any of the WorldOfDarkness games, UnknownArmies, ''{{Paranoia}}'', DarkHeresy, and CallOfCthulhu, but don't expect to get a near-dead party member on their feet quickly in most cases. Even StarWars RPGs tend to allow healing abilities to only rarely provide significant short-term advantages; most likely your healer, even when using the Force, just lets you live long enough to make it to the bacta tank.

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RedVsBlue: "Doc" serves as the Medic, but isn't very good at it. He justifies this by pointing out that it isn't his job to save lives, just to make victims comfortable while they die.

-> ''Primum nil nocere.''[[hottip:Lat.:First, do no harm.]]

* [[NurseJenny Nurse Joy]] from {{Pokemon}}. And Brock [[spoiler: and his newly-evolved (as in, just this morning) Chansey.]]

* ''ValkyriaChronicles'' has the unnamed Medic from SkiesOfArcadia, who is later revealed to be [[NurseJenny a set of triplets who are all serving as medics]] in the militia.

Still, TheMedic is prone to be ActualPacifist and hold to ThouShaltNotKill (except, possibly, {{Mercy Kill}}ing), although he may not stick to it when he is literally the only person who can attack -- especially not if the CompleteMonster is willing to attack him or worse, [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown the wounded]]. In RealLife, this is required; medical personnel are non-combatants, and so [[WouldNotShootACivilian are protected]] under UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar, but forbidden to fight themselves.

-> ''Primum nil nocere.''

-> First, do no harm.

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* At first glance, it's easy to mistake Tony Tony Chopper of ''OnePiece'' as the TeamPet. Regardless of this, he's also one of the ''One Piece'' world's most talented doctors. Among other feats, he successfully healed two crew members who had been frozen solid, despite having never seen such a thing and having no idea what to do at first. He also adapted his medical knowledge to combat. He twice gave advice that was instrumental in defeating the giant, LivingShadow-powered zombie, Odz.

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** While Ratchet was '''the'''medic, he wan't the only one. Pretty early in the series, he forms a friendship with the human Sparkplug, who even got a little staircase to help repair damaged Autobots. Season two of the G1 cartoon also had Hoist, though unlike Ratchet and most Autobot medics, he transforms into a tow truck instead of an ambulance. His bio seems to indicate that his job is more within preventative care rather than repairs, though the cartoon still shows him doing repairs.

** In the third season of ''[[TransformersGeneration1 G1]]'', he was supplanted by [[MeaningfulName First Aid]], who was a strict pacifist but by no means a weak character. He was [[CombiningMecha Defensor's arm,]] after all.

** Season two of the G1 cartoon also had Hoist, though unlike Ratchet and First Aid, he transforms into a tow truck instead of an ambulance. Plus, his bio seems to indicate that his job is more within preventative care rather than repairs, though the cartoon still shows him doing repairs.

* Any incarnation of Ratchet from the ''{{Transformers}}'' franchise. Not TheChick by any measure -- he's been the premiere medic and nursemaid for the Autobot cause for so long, he's one [[GrumpyBear grumpy old 'bot]]. In the original series, he had an OddFriendship with with Wheeljack, fellow [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]] and TechnoWizard. They'd often collaborate on some project or another, but Wheeljack was so often blowing himself up with his personal experiments that Ratchet probably wanted to kill him as much as heal him.

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Enter TheMedic. In modern settings or futuristic settings, The Medic is often a trained physician or EMT (emergency medical technician), and relies on whatever medical technology is available in that era and on-hand -- anything from miraculous herbs, injections and bandages to {{Nanomachines}}. In fantasy settings, The Medic is a often a cleric or MysteriousWaif of some kind, using the powers of WhiteMagic to restore people with HealingHands (or something similarly [[PowerGlows glowy]]). May wield the HealingShiv.

* {{Generation Kill}} has HM2 "Doc" Bryan, the squad's corpsman. Averts the SquishyWizard part; Bryan doesn't look weaker in any way compared to the others, and he does not hesitate to call out Captain Swetje on his incompetence while others who share the opinion, despite having the opportunity to do it without reprimand, just shuffle their feet. He doesn't delay in engaging the enemy and even gains a kill count; though he's bothered by "feeling nothing" after shooting other human beings, he has no trouble functioning afterward.
* Claire Bennett of ''{{Heroes}}'' has the unique ability to heal, [[spoiler: not to mention the fact that her blood can also heal others, and even bring them back from the dead]].

* Not only Leo from {{Charmed}} is a whitelighter that could heal anyone but he was a World War II medic when he was alive.

* Shadowrun. So your team's Medic got shot first, followed soon after by you? Sucks to be you. Hope you have an account with Medics-for-Hire, such as DocWagon. Conversely, you managed to drop their Medic. Nice work. Hear that siren in the distance? He had a DocWagon High Threat Response contract. They like to fly in with assault helicopters and extract their clients under cover from heavy weapons fire...better finish what you're doing, right quick.
* {{Warhammer}}: the only thing priests of Shallya (Goddess of Healing, Compassion and Birth) are good for in combat situations (well, except if servants of Nurgle, God of Pestilence, are involved). But oh boy they are good at it!

* Sometimes played straight and subverted in [[JaggedAlliance Jagged Alliance 2]]. While some of the hire-able mercenaries with a high medical skill stat had relatively weak weapons, or an average marksmanship skill stat, some had either a good weapon to back them up, good marksmanship, both, or a [[GameBreaker high wisdom stat that makes marksmanship raise beyond that of dedicated sharpshooters in a in game hours of shooting crows]]. Nearly every medic also has a decent dexterity stat (as it is required to be a decent medic) that helps their accuracy slightly.

* In {{GearsOfWar}}2, human characters that are 'downed' may yell out "Medic!", but the game subverts this trope in that any allied player can help them in that instance.

* Cream the Rabbit serves this role in SonicChronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, and ''how''. She is incredibly good at restoring the entire party's PP (as well as hers, and in her second and third levels of this ability, can restore ''more than it costs''. ), can make the opposing party miss a lot more, she's the only character who can revive others, and she can heal on the off chance that your entire party isn't doing good.

* KnightsOfTheOldRepublic averts most of this by having the medics (read: people with Force powers) also being the best melee combatants in the party. Except for [[DeadpanSnarker Jolee]], who might count as a straight example.

* In the MightAndMagic series, your team would be pretty doomed without at least a capable healer (by capable, meaning at least a Paladin, Monks took too much to start first-aid duty.), but, most of the time, you could easily find yourself overwhelmed without a secondary capable healer (Cleric with Druid or Paladin makes a very survivable party). Of course, a good alchemist could take the role to an extent, making healing contraptions, but the relative rarity of ingredients made him more of an emergency last resort (since some potions healed more than any healing spell and any character could use it on any other). However, by the end-game of some installments, the SquishyWizard far surpassed the medic in healing skills as long as he had enough victims in the screen for Soul Drinker, a top-tier Dark Magic spell.

* ValkyriaChronicles has the unnamed Medic from SkiesOfArcadia, who is later revealed to be [[NurseJenny a set of triplets who are all serving as medics]] in the militia.

* In PaperMario: TTYD [[spoiler: Ms. Mowz]] has an ability called smootch. When done correctly, Mario can heal up to 10 HP.

* Piffany in ''Nodwick''. She generally has to bring Nodwick back from the dead every [[strike:other week]] five minutes, which for some reason involves wrapping him in duct tape, although other methods turn up from time to time, such as pouring him into a mould if he's been powdered (and adding water). She's also got the usual repertoire of D&D Cleric skills ([[TurnUndead Shoo Undead]], [[ThinkHappyThoughts Happy Thoughts]]... okay, maybe not so usual).

* [[http://www.goldcoincomics.com Theo]] from Gold Coin Comics is the healer of the party (and also a monk).
* CryHavoc 's squad of werewolf dogs of war has Hati, the good natured medic who just wants to help people. She spends most of her time cleaning up the mess the other wolfs make.

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* Monk, the SEAL Medic in TheAbyss, is ([[CaptainObvious duh]]) one of these. Of all the SEALs that board Deep Core, he is the only one who seems inclined to deal with the rig crew as human beings. When faced with a medical situation he is not trained for (Jammer's coma) he does what little he can and apologises that he can't do more. Of course, since he has a [[MeaningfulName religious name]] in a JamesCameron film, his being a basically good guy was pretty much guaranteed from the get-go.

* Subverted in the ''MobileSuitGundam'' spinoff RPG ''MS Saga''. Most of the characters are competent healers. However, the one character that is often used as TheMedic happens to be a [[TheScrappy loudmouth, insensitive jerk]] with bad fashion sense and an annoying voice. He also tends to be really, really good at shooting stuff, depending on the particular mech setup he's given. Also, although the main character is generally used as TheTank, he gets the best healing spell in the entire game, which may or may not turn him into TheMedic at the end game. The character who the player would be most likely to assume to be TheMedic and StaffChick, personality-wise, instead is used as a buffer/de-buffer, and has powerful ranged attacks as well.

* In ''KingdomHearts'', either [[TheHero you (as Sora)]] can serve as the team's Medic, or you can leave that job to [[TheSmartGuy Donald Duck]]. [[TheBigGuy Goofy]] can also easily be loaded up with restorative items, since he has the largest personal inventory space in any of the games.

* Simon Tam from ''{{Firefly}}'' is an accomplished trauma surgeon on the run, who parlays his medical knowledge into passage on the ship. Simon also fits the trope on being completely incompetent with guns, although he makes up for it with his proficiency with drugs and poisons, as Jayne found out when he crossed him in ''The Train Job''.

** Actually he mostly makes up for it with HeroicSpirit . I have seldom seen him show much sophistication in a fight but often seen him show a lot of "Sisu"(a Finnish word that doesn't translate precisely but applies perfectly).
***He fits both the "personable" and the "rational" which makes him a well made character.