# Who are your favorite fictional medical examiners/pathologists? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-fictional-medical-examiners-pathologists/831023 "2019-03-12T20:20:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-fictional-medical-examiners-pathologists/831023/41 "2019-03-14T17:51:19Z")
Sasha Alexander from \*\*Rizzoli & Isles \*\* [Dr. Eugene Hawes](https://cbselementary.fandom.com/wiki/Eugene_Hawes) from **Elementary** ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-fictional-medical-examiners-pathologists/831023/42 "2019-03-14T18:33:30Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Sasha Alexander from \*\*Rizzoli & Isles \*\*… Does everybody know that Sasha Alexander is Sophia Loren’s [daughter-in-law](https://goo.gl/images/6svxFe)? ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-fictional-medical-examiners-pathologists/831023/43 "2019-03-14T19:40:03Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > D’oh!:smack: You are absolutely right, **TLou**. If we are counting forensic psychiatrists/psychologists then my favorite is Dr. Emil Skoda for Law & Order(played by J.K. Simmons). ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-fictional-medical-examiners-pathologists/831023/44 "2019-03-14T20:10:21Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Waldo Butters. Because polka will never die. And now he’s a Knight of the Cross. Not bad for what was originally a throwaway character. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-fictional-medical-examiners-pathologists/831023/45 "2019-03-14T20:32:31Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > If we are counting forensic psychiatrists/psychologists then my favorite is Dr. Emil Skoda for Law & Order(played by J.K. Simmons). I love him in those Farmers Insurance commercials, too. “We know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.” (However, they are not my insurance company.) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-fictional-medical-examiners-pathologists/831023/46 "2019-03-14T22:11:36Z")
Quincy for me to, but specifically for this reason: Jack Klugman really did save lives. Not sure how well known this is, so forgive me if I’m boring you. > **[Jack Klugman’s secret, lifesaving legacy](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/12/25/jack-klugmans-secret-lifesaving-legacy/?utm_term=.980c45e1e17a)** > > You probably know Jack Klugman for his role as the crusading medical examiner on "Quincy." You probably don't know his role as a crusading policy entrepreneur in Washington. > [@](#): > > Few people remember it today, but he [Klugman] also played an instrumental role in passing critical health-care legislation, the Orphan Drug Act, through Congress in the early 1980s, using “Quincy” and his own celebrity to roll Sen. Orrin Hatch (R), who was blocking the bill. j [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-fictional-medical-examiners-pathologists/831023.md?page=2)