They're guaranteed to get your pulse racing... and then take it.
Yes, from 'Grey's Anatomy' to 'Peak Practice', it seems that our TV screens have always been full of dishy doctors. So we think it's time to reminisce about the hottest hospital hearthrobs ever to grace our tellyboxes. Did your favourite physician make our list?
TV's Sexiest Doctors
Dr. Derek Shepherd - Patrick Dempsey(01 of22)
The Grey's Anatomy hottie wasn't known as McDreamy for nothing, you know. (credit:ABC)
Dr. Quinn - Jayne Seymour(02 of22)
Or to give her her full name: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The medicine woman who made post-Civil War Colorado a much sexier place. (credit:CBS)
Dr. John Carter - Noah Wyle(03 of22)
Doe eyes and a stethoscope? Get us down to ER immediately! (credit:NBC)
Dr. Michael Spence - Hari Dhillon(04 of22)
Holby City's irresistible, womanising bad boy. Well, every TV hospital has to have one, doesn't it? (credit:BBC)
Dr. Remy ‘Thirteen’ Hadley - Olivia Wilde(05 of22)
Because nothing is sexier than being so secretive, nobody knows your real name. (Also: not much is sexier than Olivia Wilde.) (credit:Fox)
Capt. Hawkeye Pierce - Alan Alda(06 of22)
In M*A*S*H, Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce healed the war wounded, flirted with the ladies and mixed a mean martini. What's not to love?! (credit:CBS)
Dr. Macartney - Julian Rhind-Tutt(07 of22)
AKA 'Mac', Green Wing's sexy surgeon is kind, witty and he's got a strawberry blonde 'lion's mane' (copyright: Sue White). Swoon! (credit:Channel 4)
Dr. Mindy Lahiri - Mindy Kaling(08 of22)
The most lovable obstetrician/gynecologist you're ever likely to meet, the star of The Mindy Project loves romcoms and dates handsome doctors. Which is understandable, because she's funny as hell. (credit:Fox)
Dr. Luka Kovač - Goran Višnjić(09 of22)
The floppy hair! The green eyes! The Croatian rendition of 'To be or not to be'! Thank you, ER, for scouring Europe and finding this handsome, handsome man. (credit:NBC)
Dr. Will Preston - Simon Shepherd(10 of22)
The floppy hair! The blue eyes! Yes, if Richard Madeley was just that bit dishier - and a medical doctor - he might come halfway close to being like Derbyshire's Dr. Preston. (credit:ITV)
Dr. Elliot Reid - Sarah Chalke(11 of22)
We're calling it. Neurotic Republican endocrinology experts have never been more attractive than Scrubs's Dr. Reid. (credit:ABC)
Dr. Gregory House - Hugh Laurie(12 of22)
We already knew Hugh Laurie was sexy. But then he went to America, played a misanthropic medical genius, and the whole world knew that he was sexy. (credit:Fox)
Dr. Rose Marie - Barbara Flynn(13 of22)
"Just Rose Marie. That's my full name. I'm not that into patronymics," explained the smouldering sexpot of A Very Peculiar Practice. And we melted. And were ever-so slightly scared. (credit:BBC)
Dr. James Kildare - Richard Chamberlain(14 of22)
The original sexy TV doctor, all future actors playing doctors have gone on to mimic this pose in one form or another. Although we're not sure any of them has ever held a stethoscope quite as sexily as this. (credit:NBC)
Dr. Connie Beauchamp - Amanda Mealing(15 of22)
We don't think we can put it any better than the Casualty fan who posted: "Connie could literally walk all over me in those heels and I’d thank her for it." (credit:BBC)
Dr. John Dorian - Zach Braff(16 of22)
Meanwhile, back at Scrubs's Sacred Heart Hospital, J.D. is melting our hearts with his jokes, daydreams and big blue eyes. Even when they're looking at us like this. (credit:ABC)
Dr. Anton Meyer - George Irving(17 of22)
According to Lynda Lee-Potter, Holby City's consultant cardiothoracic surgeon was "the kind of domineering, unsmiling hero who made Mills & Boon heroines swoon." Millions of British women agreed with her. (credit:BBC)
Dr. Doug Ross - George Clooney(18 of22)
And speaking of swooning: you didn't think we'd leave out ER's Swooney Clooney now, did you? (credit:NBC)
Dr. Izzie Stephens - Katherine Heigl(19 of22)
Because who among us hasn't paid their way through medical school by working as a lingerie model? Grey's Anatomy's Izzie did. And more power to her (and her pants). (credit:ABC)
Dr. Neela Rasgotra - Parminder Nagra(20 of22)
From kicking footballs around in Hounslow to working in the Emergency Room of County General Hospital, Chicago. The gorgeous star of Bend It Like Beckham did good. (credit:NBC)
Dr. Karl Kennedy - Alan Fletcher(21 of22)
Clooney might be swooney - but when it comes to 'rather attractive father figures', no one beats the local GP in Neighbours. (In our defence, it was rather slim pickings in Ramsay Street.) (credit:Grundy Television)
Doctor Who - David Tennant(22 of22)
In 1967, the Doctor - then played by Patrick Troughton - was asked by his companion: "Listen, are you really a medical doctor?" To which he replied: "Yes, I think I was once, Polly. I think I took a degree once in Glasgow. 1888 I think." And that's good enough for us. So here he is - easily the sexiest Doctor Who. Sorry, Patrick. (credit:BBC)