My Number One Doctor

"My Number One Doctor"
Scrubs episode
Episode no.	Season 7 Episode 6
Directed by	Will Mackenzie
Written by	Janae Bakken
Production code	706
Original air date	December 6, 2007
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"My Number One Doctor" is the 145th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs. It was broadcast as Episode 6 of Season 7 on December 6, 2007.

Plot

Dr. Kelso signs the hospital up to RateYourDoc.org, a website where patients can evaluate their doctor's level of care online. Turk and Dr. Cox go to great lengths to get J.D. out of the running of becoming number one doctor on the website. They trick patients into believing the The Todd is J.D. so that they lower J.D.'s rating. J.D. can't believe that Turk went to these extremes (claiming he would expect this from Dr.Cox, but not him.) Turk talks to Dr. Kelso about the situation and he changes J.D.'s rating back. Turk pays him back by letting him win at basketball and yelling "White Lightning" every time he scores.

Meanwhile, Elliot mentions how she gets to know her private practice patients due to her being able to repeatedly treat them and has become close with Shannon, a patient with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Shannon is increasingly paralyzed and has accepted her fate, but shocks Elliot by admitting she deliberately attempted to overdose on her medication. Shannon argues that she has the right to die before she is completely paralyzed. Despite Elliot's strong moral objections and J.D.'s advice that Elliot will be forever haunted by the decision, Elliot decides that her friendship with Shannon is more important and decides not to tell the home care nurse, Gail, so that Shannon can do as she wishes.

Carla can't figure out what the Janitor's new girlfriend, Lady, sees in him. It turns out that Janitor is pretending to be normal and hiding his crazy, weird side from Lady. Carla then confronts Janitor about this and states that if he really loved her, he'll tell her the truth about who he is. Although Dr. Kelso butts in and says that lying is the natural form of communication between men and women. Janitor later meets up with Lady and admits that she should know about the real him. In the middle of explaining some of his qualities and hobbies, that which include his love of stuffing animals ("usually with other animals"), Carla sees that Lady is starting to feel really uncomfortable and interrupts by saying, "Stop it you! She doesn't know you're joking." With that, Lady sighs with relief and Dr. Kelso, who was watching the whole time, says, "And so the lying begins." Carla then explains that it's better to let out his craziness bit by bit. At the end of the episode, Janitor takes out one of his stuffed squirrels to see what Lady thinks of it. But when she exclaims, "That is disgusting!," Janitor nervously recedes to say, "I think so too, I just wanted to see if we were on the same page."

Continuity

Dr. Kelso mentions that his wife still thinks it is winter because he sprays shaving cream on the windows to keep her from ruining the lawn with her wheelchair. However, in an earlier episode, Dr. Kelso stated his wife was blind, and would therefore be unable to see the shaving cream on the window.

In this episode JD says he has never won anything, but in the episode "My Fishbowl" he says he won a watermelon seed spitting contest at his theater camp.

Production details

• The producers of Scrubs actually made the doctor rating site, called RateYourDoc.org (offline). Viewers of the show can go and view profiles of the characters and simulate a 0 to 5 rating for them.
• Dr Cox mentions a comment on [RateYourDoc.org] saying "what's up with Dr Cox's hair. One week he's bald, the next week he looks like Shirley Temple. Signed Michelle M." This is a fan in-joke mocking Dr Cox's temporary baldness in "My Night to Remember" and the fan reaction to it.
• Kit Pongetti, the actress who portrays Lady, was originally seen as the doctor who takes over the office next to Dr Kelso's, in the episode "My Philosophy".
• Lauren Stamile, who guest starred as Shannon, also appeared on Grey's Anatomy as Nurse Rose.

Featured music

• "B-13" by Jump, Little Children
• Ride of the Valkyries

References