9 Television Doctors You'd Trust With Your Life

4. Doctor Michaela Quinn (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)

Unlike all of those fancy surgeons and specialists with their sophisticated robots and MRI machines, Doctor Michaela Quinn practiced way back in the 19th century, had to prove her worth using nothing but her brain. In Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Jane Seymour portrayed a woman who was born into a wealthy family in Boston. With the encouragement of her doctor father, she attended the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and becomes licensed herself. But the medicine world was a hard place for a female those days, and the only reason she eventually got hired is because her name was mistaken for Michael at a telegraph conversation. Obviously, one would rather being taken care of by today's medical standards than going back to horse-and-buggy times and die from a simple staph infection. Still, if you'd ever get stuck in the wilderness with no proper hospital in sight, Dr. Quinn is your woman. Why? For the simple reason that she had everything to lose. To get accepted as woman doctor during those days, one had to go above and beyond and work harder than any male physician ever did. Furthermore, if Quinn wanted to get the townsmen's respect and actually see patients, there was no room for error. And this strong headed, willful and confident doctor didn't fail to deliver.