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{{quote|I have great respect for those of the medical profession who have taken up their position in the remote districts of Scotland and devote themselves to the healing art under most disadvantageous circumstances. The distances are incredibly long and dangerous in winter: I have in mind an insular doctor who has a great deal to do of midnight boating in glacial weather, and whose bills are often paid not in coin but in ''fleece off a sheep's back''.
|Daniel Turner Holmes, ''Literary Tours in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland''. }}
A physician who works in a frontier community.
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* Dr. Leonard McCoy in the aptly titled ''Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor''. Set between the original ''[[Star Trek: The
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* Simon Tam of ''[[Firefly]]'' is a Frontier Doctor [[In Space]], down to having once worked in a [[Hospital Paradiso]] on a Core World and being driven to the Frontier by a conflict with the law.
** A couple of episodes show more traditional versions ([[Dissimile|traditional, that is, apart from being on alien planets 500 years in the future]]).
* In the first episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', Bashir comments about his new post saying this, and offending Major Kira in the process. (This is her home, and it doesn't seem like a distant frontier to THIS restless native.) On the other hand, he does go about occasionally making house-calls to neighboring planets, (including Bajor a time or two).
** Bashir later meets a classmate who took a prestige assignment with a starship, and she complains how boring her own assignment was as opposed to his own (the writers also uses this as a jab against ''The Next Generation'' and ''Voyagers'' problem of the week episodes compared to the arcs in ''Deep Space Nine'').
* Dr. McCoy in ''[[Star Trek:
* Arguably, everyone in a ''[[
* Most of the Diagnosans in ''[[Farscape]]'' tend to occupy this kind of role.
* Archie Campbell played one on ''[[Hee Haw]]''.
* Hiram Baker on ''[[Little House On the Prairie]]''.
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{{quote|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}U8BWBn26bX0 Frontier Psychiatrist], The Avalanches}}
* ''[[The Beatles (band)|Rocky Raccoon]]'':
{{quote|''Now the doctor came in, stinking of gin,
''And proceeded to lie on the table }}
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* "Doc" Holliday, of [[Real Life]] and many, many fictional accounts, was a Frontier Dentist, but is far better known for his [[The Gambler|gambling]] and [[The Gunslinger|gunfighting]]. (His consumptive cough apparently tended to scare off clients.)
* [[James Herriot]] sort of counts, working in a backwater community and all.
* These people still exist, although they tend to make their rounds by aircraft instead of on horseback. [[The Other Wiki]]
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