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100

Five surgical interns walked into Seattle Grace in 2005; more than two decades later, this ABC series still bears one intern’s surname.  

What is Grey’s Anatomy?

100

Andre Young didn’t attend medical school, but under this professional name he prescribed The Chronic.

Who is Dr. Dre?

100

A lung-cancer diagnosis sends chemistry teacher Walter White down a distinctly non-FDA-approved career path.

What is Breaking Bad?

100

Susan Roces made “Huwag mahihiyang magtanong” inseparable from this medicine brand.

What is RiteMED?

100

Freddie Highmore’s hospital drama meets Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sorcerer Supreme.

What is The Good Doctor Strange?

200

Most episodes of this Sacred Heart sitcom unfold partly inside John Dorian’s very active imagination.

What is Scrubs?

200

This Gallifreyan has regenerated repeatedly since 1963, usually traveling with companions rather than residents.

Who is Doctor Who?

200

Hazel Grace Lancaster’s cancer history and portable oxygen tank frame her relationship with Augustus Waters in this adaptation of a John Green novel.

What is The Fault in Our Stars?

200

For years, John Lloyd Cruz could end a commercial with just this five-letter Filipino word, and viewers knew Biogesic was involved.

What is “Ingat”?

200

Mel Gibson fights for Scottish freedom, then apparently needs immediate coronary intervention.

What is Braveheart Attack?

300

Princeton-Plainsboro employed this Vicodin-taking diagnostician whose philosophy could be reduced to three words: “Everybody lies.”

Who is Gregory House?

300

Before Benedict Cumberbatch entered the multiverse, this Marvel character actually was a surgeon.

Who is Doctor Strange?

300

Lucy Whitmore’s inability to retain each new day gives Adam Sandler many, many chances to make a first impression in this rom-com.

What is 50 First Dates?

300

Long before Abot-Kamay na Pangarap, Aga Muhlach played Dr. Agaton “Doc Aga” Villaluz in this sitcom.

What is Oki Doki Doc?

300

Port Charles meets five Korean doctors who unwind by playing in a band.

What is General Hospital Playlist?

400

Before he was Danny Ocean, George Clooney spent five seasons playing pediatrician Doug Ross on this NBC drama.

What is ER?

400

This blue-skinned supervillain earned the title “Doctor” long before becoming one of the Fantastic Four’s most famous enemies.

Who is Doctor Doom?

400

Leonard Shelby’s inability to form new memories forces this Christopher Nolan film to tell much of its story backward.

What is Memento?

400

Jillian Ward played prodigy-turned-doctor Analyn Santos in this long-running GMA daytime drama.

What is Abot-Kamay na Pangarap?

400

The Seattle surgeons get mixed up with Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning courtroom drama.

What is Grey’s Anatomy of a Fall?

500

Clive Owen’s brilliant, cocaine-dependent Dr. John Thackery practiced at the Knickerbocker Hospital in this Steven Soderbergh series.

What is The Knick?

500

This green, gold-toothed Muppet “doctor” fronts the Electric Mayhem on keyboards.

Who is Dr. Teeth?

500

Robert De Niro’s Leonard Lowe temporarily emerges from decades of immobility after receiving L-Dopa in this 1990 film.

What is Awakenings?

500

Dennis Trillo and Bela Padilla headlined this 2014 medical drama produced by GMA News and Public Affairs.

What is Sa Puso ni Dok?

500

The Tanner family sitcom acquires one exceptionally unpleasant Princeton-Plainsboro diagnostician.

What is Full House M.D.?