Johns Hopkins School of Medicine - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the Fox television program House M.D., Dr. Gregory House is a world-famous diagnostician who attended Johns Hopkins University for his undergraduate degree and, later, medicine, but was expelled for cheating. Neurologist Dr. Eric Foreman also attended Hopkins.
• In the movie Shutter Island, Dr. John Cawley, the head psychiatrist at the Ashecliff Hospital for the criminally insane, is said to have graduated "at the top of his class at both Johns Hopkins and Harvard."
• In the movie Step Brothers, Dr. Robert Doback attends Johns Hopkins University for his postgraduate degree. However this is not good enough for Will Ferrell's character, who says that he "smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins".
• In the television comedy/drama Gilmore Girls the school is mentioned as one of the medical schools the character of Paris Geller wants to get accepted to, and eventually is.
• In the television drama Grey's Anatomy, two of the cardiothoracic surgeons Preston Burke and Erica Hahn graduated from Hopkins Med, coming first and second in their class respectively. Arizona Robbins, the Head of Pediatric Surgery, is also a Hopkins Med graduate.
• In the television drama Private Practice, the character Charlotte King is a graduate of Hopkins Med and Amelia Shepherd trained at Hopkins for residency.
• In The Simpsons, Julius Hibbert is a family physician who graduated from Hopkins Med.
• Dr Hannibal Lecter, from The Silence of the Lambs and other books, completed his residency training at Hopkins Hospital.
• The character of Alex Cross created by author James Patterson is a graduate of Hopkins Med.
• In The West Wing, President Bartlet's middle daughter Ellie is a student at Hopkins Med.
• Johns Hopkins is mentioned many times in Tom Clancy's novels: Jack Ryan's wife, Cathy, is an ophthalmology professor there.
• The ABC documentary Hopkins takes a look at the life of the medical staff and students of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System This new series is a sequel to the 2000 ABC Series Hopkins 24/7. Both "Hopkins" and "Hopkins 24/7" were awarded the prestigious Peabody Award.
• In the animated television series South Park, Butters Stotch gets sent to Johns Hopkins Hospital for scientific study.
• The movie Something the Lord Made is the story of two men – an ambitious white surgeon, head of surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a gifted black carpenter turned lab technician – who defied the racial strictures of the Jim Crow South and together pioneered the field of heart surgery.
• Dr. Perry Cox from the television series Scrubs attended Johns Hopkins.
• Melanie Barnett from the television series The Game always discusses how she gave up Johns Hopkins for professional football player boyfriend Derwin.
• In the movie Getting In, an applicant to the Hopkins School of Medicine who is placed on the waiting list is suspected of murdering other wait-listed applicants to clear his way to admission.
• In M*A*S*H episode 8.17 'Heal Thyself', the visiting surgeon, Dr Newsome (Edward Hermann) shuts up Charles Winchester by disclosing that he is alumnus of John Hopkins.