Who's your top doc?

Help us choose the doctor - past or present, real or fictional - who best embodies your idea of a good doctor.

Please include a few details if you don't think their names will be reasonably well known.

We'll feature the top 10 on the cover of our special theme issue, "What is a good doctor and how can we make one," planned for September this year.

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Dr Mac Armstrong: Jay Ilangaratne
bmj.com, 19 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Top Docs? I got one!: Jennifer E Leavesley
bmj.com, 21 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Mr John Bancewicz: John Bancewicz
bmj.com, 22 Jul 2002 [Full text]
you will never find a teacher like him: Devegowda mohan
bmj.com, 21 Jul 2002 [Full text]
It has to be Sir William: A. Mark Clarfield
bmj.com, 22 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Not too many around: pat Davis
bmj.com, 22 Jul 2002 [Full text]
A Doctor Cared: William D. Misner Ph.D.
bmj.com, 23 Jul 2002 [Full text]
A top doc is a top human being: Simon J Vanlint
bmj.com, 23 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Top doc: Andrew P Webster
bmj.com, 23 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Top doctor, the day the Professor met the President: Dr Ahmed N. Ghanem
bmj.com, 23 Jul 2002 [Full text]
My mentor: Munir Emile Nassar, M.D.
bmj.com, 24 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Ideal Top Doc: Learn to Emulate TV: Randy Haukom
bmj.com, 25 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Top Doc: Axel Riefflin
bmj.com, 25 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Re: Top Doc: Sydney Smith
bmj.com, 25 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Re: Re: Top Doc: William D H Carey
bmj.com, 25 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Dr Alwyn Ralphs - Wolstanton Health Centre, Wolstanton Stoke on Trent: Dr Rita Pal
bmj.com, 29 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Dr J B Smith, Southbourne, West Sussex: Susan H Chandler
bmj.com, 29 Jul 2002 [Full text]
The best contributions to health: Jose F. Gomez Rosales
bmj.com, 31 Jul 2002 [Full text]
Two of a Kind!: Lyn Mynott
bmj.com, 17 Aug 2002 [Full text]
Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield and Dr David Derry: Kathryn A Page
bmj.com, 17 Aug 2002 [Full text]
I've got a few actually: Oliver R Dearlove
bmj.com, 28 Aug 2002 [Full text]
Thanks for the ears!: Sandra Y Clancy
bmj.com, 5 Sep 2002 [Full text]
HEALING HANDS: Laura M. Cox
bmj.com, 5 Sep 2002 [Full text]
All Doctors are wonderful: Colin A Bearfield
bmj.com, 6 Sep 2002 [Full text]
A Human Doctor: Margaret E Salsbury
bmj.com, 6 Sep 2002 [Full text]
Top Doc: Phyllis F. Davidson
bmj.com, 9 Sep 2002 [Full text]
Tried, True, & Dedicated: Toni Y McCarty
bmj.com, 9 Sep 2002 [Full text]
Top Docs: Muriel Scully
bmj.com, 10 Sep 2002 [Full text]
All docs will be tops in the near future: Evelyn K. Nichols, et al.
bmj.com, 10 Sep 2002 [Full text]
Dr Yanamini: John A Olley
bmj.com, 11 Sep 2002 [Full text]
Rare and definitely not your typical Doc: Carol L Guenzel
bmj.com, 23 Sep 2002 [Full text]
Doctor A K Mangal: Kevin Turner
bmj.com, 2 Feb 2004 [Full text]