Much like House, Dr. Doug Ross is all for breaking the rules when it comes to the patient welfare. Unlike the former misanthropic physician, Dr. Ross's compassion for his patients shined through many situations, though not always in the best of ways. Ross was George Clooney's breakthrough role in the long running Medical-Drama ER. Although the series lasted an astonishing 15 seasons, Clooney's character lasted only five, much to fans' disappointment. The fast-paced show, based in Chicago's fictional County General Hospital, followed the work and lives of a group of emergency room doctors with Ross being its star paediatrician. There's no denying that this doctor is incredibly handsome, and one look at his on-screen conquests (in the form of a string of beautiful nurses), can verify that. But beyond the twinkling smile and amazing hair lies a very passionate doctor, one who will do whatever it takes to attend to the children who come across his care. Remember the time when he tried to do an ultra-rapid detox on a drug-addicted baby without the mother's consent? Or when he showed a mother how to bypass the lockouts on a Dilaudid PCA, enabling her to give a lethal dose of medication to her terminally ill son? This may have gotten him fired, but it was the right thing to do, and he knew it. "I'm a doctor and nothing gets in the way of that. Nothing," Ross once said during the show, and he wasn't kidding. Who wouldn't want a doctor like that in their corner, when their child becomes ill?
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