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* Mikey ( [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent er... Not Mikey?]]) is this in the Series/{{JAG}} episode ''Each Of Us Angels''. Of course that one is a medical drama and most of the characters are medical personal. But the others are mostly nurses while "not Mikey" is a front line Corpsman.

** There are also some [[EnsembleDarkhorse background ponies]] with similar roles, like [[FanNickname Nurse Redheart]].

* Coorah from ''WesternAnimation/KulipariAnArmyOfFrogs'' spends must of the early episodes hoping characters will hurt themselves so she can get a chance to practice medicine. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Fortunately]] for her, a war soon breaks out, giving her ample opportunity to show her talent, showing ability that even impresses Kulipari CombatMedic Ponto.

* The playerbase of ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' is divided on this issue. New players who import mindsets from other games assume that the Empathy powerset, which focuses on restoring HP, is an absolute must for team success, and they insist that Defenders -- who can choose it as a primary powerset -- should always have it. Those more familiar with the game understand that the Defender Archetype is not your typical Healer Class. Its purpose is loosely, "keep allies from dying," and all its myriad possible abilities work toward this in some fashion. Yes, this includes making enemies dea- er, [[NonLethalKO "arrested"]] if need be, but more often involves {{Status Buff}}s and [[StatusAilment debuffs]]. These proactive options are generally more effective than Empathy, so the more experienced players tend to look down on the ignorant Empathy-demanders.

* ''VideoGame/AlienSwarm'' has the Medic class. The medics here are more like [[CombatMedic CombatMedics]] since they can use almost any weapon like everyone else can and dish out as much pain. However, only Medics have access to two items that are exclusive to their class. The Healing Beacon heals all players that step into its radius while the Healgun works just like the one [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 used by a certain other Medic]] by healing others on the go. The Healgun can also be used on yourself. These items are the only things that can save teammates from being killed by the [[DemonicSpiders parasites]], making Medics an extremely valuable ally.

* Kaidan in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' was the only squadmate with the Medicine section of the skill tree, and was also the most merciful/compassionate of the group.

** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'': Giorno's Gold Experience CAN heal him, but has to take something and turn ''that'' into new flesh for whatever he is trying to heal; such as using the bullets you were shot with to fix your organs. (This leads to an... odd moment later on in the story.)

* In the games, some Franchise/{{Pokemon}} learn moves to heal other members on the party, like Heal Bell and Arometherapy, which heal the StandardStatusEffects. Others like the Chansey line and Miltank have the moves Softboiled and Milk Drink to heal others outside battle.

* The playerbase of ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' is divided on this issue. New players who import mindsets from other games assume that the Empathy powerset, which focuses on restoring HP, is an absolute must for team success, and they insist that Defenders -- who can choose it as a primary powerset -- should always have it. Those more familiar with the game understand that the Defender Archetype is not your typical Healer Class. Its purpose is loosely, "keep allies from dying," and all its myriad possible abilities work toward this in some fashion. Yes, this includes making enemies dea- er, [[NonLethalKO "arrested"]] if need be, but more often involves {{Status Buff}}s and [[StandardStatusEffects debuffs]]. These proactive options are generally more effective than Empathy, so the more experienced players tend to look down on the ignorant Empathy-demanders.

** In the books, as well as being the medic, she's an accomplished biochemist, a genius, and a MarySue. Not everyone found this annoying.

A subtrope of SupportPartyMember. See the TheSquad and the CommandRoster for {{Ensembles}} likely to have a team Medic. In particularly large or specialized teams, it is not uncommon for the Medic to do almost nothing except heal the StoneWall--in which case they are that fighter's "backpack" (this is standard practice for groups in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''). A backpack may also occur when one member has a specialized healing ability and another requires that specialized healing (typically robot/techie, {{undead}}/necromancer, or an [[InvertedTrope inverted]] ReviveKillsZombie situation).

Medics are typically {{Squishy Wizard}}s, possessing little in the way of raw strength or offensive combat ability. If guns are standard, they'll usually have the smallest and weakest possible. In fantasy settings, they don't usually wear any armor, and [[WeaponOfChoice tend to use]] [[SimpleStaff staves]] as often as [[DropTheHammer hammers or maces]]. They don't always get the flashiest abilities and their skillset tends towards BoringButPractical, although they will occasionally pick up a few offensive spells. HolyHandGrenade is popular among the rare [[CombatMedic Medics who fight]].

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** In addition to the White Mage, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' has Scholars, Dancers, [[MagicKnight Red Mages and Blue Mages,]] and [[TheBeastmaster Summoners]]. A White Mage subjob is normally required for these jobs, but Dancer is an exception. The healer priority gets changed at the higher levels, where [[StopHavingFunGuys the TP-burn mentality]] is in full swing, as Red Mages suddenly get the top spot due not to having a stronger healing ability, but because they can CastFromHP and be more efficient healers... which results in a "Red Mage or bust" train of thought, though less stupid parties do invite other healers when possible.

* Elf dust in ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' can heal wounds. This is sometimes an unfortunate fact for Puck, the elf that travels with Guts -- when he needs healing, Guts has no problem with grabbing Puck and shaking him over whatever wounds need to be healed.

* Konoe Konoka in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' increasingly fills this role as she becomes more experienced with healing magic. After a while, team members just don't bother restraining themselves during training, since all their injuries can be healed by her anyway. Unfortunately, this also makes her the team's biggest AchillesHeel, as in a battle she is [[ShootTheMedicFirst always targeted first]]. [[spoiler:In one MoodWhiplash chapter, she manages to completely heal the protagonist after ''he took a stone spear to the chest, pulled it out to sucker-punch the villain who delivered it, collapsed, and bled on the floor for a minute'', all until she got to him.]]
* With anime adaption on air, this has come to the trope: While most [[FunctionalMagic magi]] in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} are trained in first aid, Irisviel von Einzbern in ''LightNovel/FateZero'' is the designated Medic for Saber, her partner and her husband's Servant. Due to this she also suffers from a variation of TheWorfEffect, where the first sign of trouble came when Saber took a hit and Irisviel ''couldn't'' heal it.

* [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals Nurse Joy]] from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. And Brock [[spoiler: and his Chansey]]. Iris is showing signs of this too.

* Joshua "Josh" Foley, aka Elixir, from ''Comicbook/XMen''. Elixir is quite possibly the most powerful mutant because he can manipulate DNA in order as his power and accelerate cell division. It manifests early on as healing powers, but he can just as easily kill you as he can heal you.

* The Gronk in ''Comicbook/StrontiumDog'' comes from an entire species who are skilled medics, and is constantly healing Johnny and Wulf after their latest scrap.

* In William King's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/SpaceWolf novel ''Wolfblade'', though in a WretchedHive far down in the levels, Ragnar and Haegr stumble on [[GoodShepherd Brother Malburius]], [[GoodSamaritan who treats Haegr's injuries]].

* The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Literature/XwingSeries of novels had Ton Phanan, a rarity in commando squads: a fully-trained and licensed doctor and surgeon. He had none of the bedside manner, however, and was something of a CombatMedic[=/=]DeadlyDoctor. He did adhere to the SquishyWizard stereotype by getting himself injured in battle ([[spoiler:and eventually getting killed]]), though this was somewhat counteracted by his having to get cybernetic implants for more extensive injuries as he was "allergic to bacta".

* Simon Tam from ''{{Series/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 tried to take over in "The Train Job" and later betrayed Simon and River in "War Stories". (In a later episode, Simon injects him with a paralytic.) He fits both the "personable" and the "rational" which makes him a well-made character. He's a pretty good tactician too, as was shown in "Ariel".

%%** Phlox in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''

* Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG has over a dozen medical characters, each with their own unique personalities and skills.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', some units have the option of taking a medic, which grants the entire unit Feel No Pain (50/50 chance (roll 4 or higher on d6) of ignoring any unsaved wound). This generally makes the unit absurdly tough.
* TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} generally averts this - while the eponymous Exalted have various methods of speeding up others recovery, it is still a matter of hours or days rather than weeks or months. About the only way to provide mid-combat healing for others is the Wood Dragon Celestial martial art.

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** Lucas of ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' is a straighter example. He's more focused on positive support and healing whereas Kumatora is more into negative support and offense.

** Medics appear in VideoGame/CommandAndConquer, but oddly for only one side. The Allies in ''RedAlert'' get one, while the Soviets do not; GDI in ''Tiberian Sun'' get one, Nod does not.

** VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn has six assuming everyone is kept in their base classes. [[TheHero Matthew]], like his father(Issac) and uncle(Felix) starts as a strong single-target healer but later only has the Revive spell going for him. Fellow Venus Adept [[ShrineMaiden Himi]] is more utilitarian due to her much higher psynergy pool and not needing any set Djinn to use Revive. [[TheLancer Karis]]' unique Fresh Breeze spells are the weakest of all healing spells, but being multi-target and not requiring any set Djinn makes them extremely practical. [[BareFistedMonk Sveta]] has access to a unique line of single-target healing spells that are twice as strong as Matthew or Himi's as well as status-restoration. [[ChildMage Rief]] has the strongest single-target healing spells, the strongest multi-target healing spells, and status-restoration. He tends to be put on the sidelines for being less practical than Karis early on, but like his mother(Mia) certain equipment setups allow for 800 hp to be restored to the entire party in a single casting. [[TheRedMage Amiti]] is largely identical to Piers.

** Interestingly, in the VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic (sorta) spin-off, the medic-type hero had a kind of more extreme role. Instead of healing single units (which was largely useless in the scale) his role was bringing them back from the dead em-masse. The heroes of TheUndead were the heroes most likely to become ''The Medic'' because of the fact that the spell to revive undead was much more accessible than the living counter-part, though both relied on Earth Magic.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'''s Eirin Yagokoro is Gensokyo's resident doctor (technically a pharmacist). Fanon (and, at times, canon) sometimes skews this into MadDoctor territory.

* ''VideoGame/KillingFloor'' has the Medic perk. Like ''Battlefield'' above, the Squishy Wizard part is averted - Medics get cheaper, more resilient armor, and the perk-specific [=MP7M=] [[MoreDakka fires faster than anything else in the game]]. Along with the syringe they can also heal using a medic guns SecondaryFire, the perk also grants them healing grenades that heal team mates but also [[{{ReviveKillsZombie}} damage specimens]] as a bonus.

* The Medic class in ''Videogame/{{Evolve}}''. Each medic character has some way of keeping the team alive, including deployable healing buoys, a healing drone, [[HealingShiv healing grenades]], [[DeathIsCheap a resurrection device]], or a [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 TF2]] style healing gun. They avert the SquishyWizard part by having just as much health as the other classes and carrying some useful weapons.

* Sharla in ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' has many healing and support arts, and is referred to as medic by Otharon. Unusually for this character archetype, she wields a {{BFG}} [[HealingShiv which is what she uses to heal]].

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* ''VideoGame/TreasurePlanetBattleAtProcyon'' has the Tender class of ships, which are poorly armed (except for the [[{{Combat Medic}} Procyon Tender]]) but have the ability to repair allied ships if they dock next to them for repairs.

* Piffany in ''Webcomic/{{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).

* In Webcomic/AvasDemon, [[http://www.avasdemon.com/pages.php?page=0237 Gil. In the best style, he searches for survivors from the crash.]]

* Mikkel from ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'', who was hired into the crew for his medical skills.

* In Creator/BenCounter's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/HorusHeresy novel ''Galaxy In Flames'', Vaddon selflessly tends the injured among [[spoiler:the betrayed loyalist Space Marines up to the moment that Horus's forces are [[TurnCoat let in]] and [[MoralEventHorizon kill him]] and [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown the wounded]]]].
* In Creator/JamesSwallow's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} novel ''Faith & Fire'', the Hospitaller Verity. Watching the GladiatorGames[=/=]HumanSacrifice, she was overcome with horror and jumped out to help the injured. During the terrorist attack on it, she ministered to the wounded and administered last rites (losing count when she realized that the number would make [[TenderTears her cry]]). And when she does shoot one terrorist, she is horrified.

* In Steve Parker's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' Literature/ImperialGuard novel ''Gunheads'', Wulfe's BackStory includes an incident where a medic jumped to save him from a wound that would have killed him. A few days later, the medic was captured by orks and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] to death. Wulfe thinks that he's still trying to avenge him.

* In Creator/CSLewis's ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'', Lucy Pevensie, youngest of the four siblings, is given a flask of a miraculous potion that heals all injuries. But it was Susan, the second eldest and the Archer, who was TheChick and the TeamMom.

* In ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' ET99 is a medical roboman wandering around the Downey Creek region of Mars, treating and rescuing animals and people, after having lost its original owner and memories.

** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': During the first chapter, Healie -a Healslime- provides healing abilities for Ragnar, who has no magical abilities of his own.

* ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}''

** While most of the main characters have some degree of medical training it's Gil who spends the most time patching up his friends. Tarvek is his most common patient as Gil has had to save his life from [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090810 numerous]] [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180122 assassination]] attempts and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200928 other injuries.]]

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091223 willing to force Klaus himself to have bed rest]].