Scrubs (TV series)

"My name is John Dorian and I'm a doctor. Finally."

"Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy."

"The janitor is always watching."

"Dr. Cox will never admit he cares. He cares enormously."

"Turk and J.D. The greatest friendship in medical television."

"All the heightened drama and medical inaccuracies aside, Chabrerie says it’s the emotional challenges of being a doctor that these shows tend to get right. “I do think the emotional aspects get brought up more in shows like Scrubs,” she says. (She’s not the only one—a 2009 Slate article says that despite the show’s “cartoonishness,” it’s “quite in tune with the real lives of doctors.”) “In med school, this is what we did. We lay in our beds and watched Scrubs,” Chabrerie says. “At the end of the day, we see [the same things] all the time. We lose patients all the time. It’s never easy. [On these shows], the young doctor gets really upset, and the older, wiser doctor comes in and says ‘You have to let it go.’”"