There's Chi McBride, playing the principal on Fox's "Boston Public"; James McDaniel as Lieutenant Fancy on ABC's "N.Y.P.D. Blue"; Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton on NBC's "E.R".; Andre Braugher as a prominent innovative doctor on ABC's "Gideon's Crossing".
He would be a little slow to speak and never very eloquent; he would not be good with money, but he would be a skilled mechanic; he might even, the authors suggest (facetiously, I hope) make a good physician "since most modern doctors are not innovative".
Occasionally a movie still uses 3D in innovative ways (Doctor Strange being the best since 2011's Hugo).
Which is a shame, because that view occludes the fact that much of what seems most innovative in new Doctor Who is deeply rooted in its history – and not always the best-regarded periods of that history.
This year's Lasker Public Service Award went to the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health "for creating a research hospital where doctors develop innovative therapies and explore new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent a wide variety of diseases".
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state's largest insurer, recently devised an innovative model that pays doctors a flat fee per patient, with adjustments for age, gender and health status, and then adds bonus payments for high standards of care.
OhMD — a HIPAA-compliant texting app — is intelligently targeting their marketing efforts towards residents, the youngest and most innovative thinking of all doctors.
One innovative suggestion to attract doctors into MDGP training was if the training was government sponsored after 1 year service of the required two bonded years for government sponsored MBBS graduates.
The Ann Levy Siegel Teaching Scholars Program for implementing innovative methods of teaching young doctors is named in her honor.
Once promoted by industry and doctors as an innovative orthopedic breakthrough, the devices have failed prematurely in thousands of cases, causing many patients to undergo repeat surgeries and producing crippling injuries in some of them.
