4. Patch Adams Patch Adams
Who Is He?: A medical student and former mental patient (based on real Dr. Hunter Adams, who is precisely nothing like this character), who disapproves of the lack of bedside manner in the medical profession and tries to add a dose of laughter to his patients lives.
Why Is He So Horrible?: This is largely down to personal perception but when you think about it, Patch Adams is a terrible person. He doesnt really take being a medical student seriously and spends most of his time acting like an idiot, even going so far as to disturb other medical students during a test by messing about with a teaching skeleton, bursting into a room full of sleeping patients and throwing balloon animals around, and prancing around a ward of terminally ill children with bedpans on his feet. But his worst action is that he starts practicing medicine without a licence, which ends up getting a person killed, and then steals medical supplies from the hospital he studies at when his personal stash runs out.
What Happens To Him?: He graduates from medical school, becomes a fully qualified doctor, and presumably continues to act like an unprofessional jackass on a full time basis.