3 Doctor Cox and JD Moments That Will Make You Want to Rewatch Scrubs
Scrubs was our guide to life just much as it was for JD. Doctor Cox gave us the advice to live by, and we have dutifully done so for the past 20 years.
Let's remember some of Doctor Cox's best mentoring sessions that JD has received over the years.
1. Doctor Cox Saves the Day (the Very First One)
Nothing would be possible if Dr. Cox hadn't helped the young intern on his very first day. In the pilot episode, JD had already met Perry and verbally suffered at his hands (or rather, his tongue), and that was the least of his problems.
JD had trouble adjusting to the hospital life and couldn't take charge when a car crash victim arrived and required assistance.
Luckily, Dr. Cox turned off his beast mode and simply said, "JD, look at me. You can do this." This moment largely defined JD's future career as a doctor.
2. Doctor Cox Finally Recognizes JD's Hard Work
JD enjoyed a lot of brutal honesty moments with Dr. Cox (and not a lot of touchy-feely ones for obvious reasons). In the season 8 episode, My Jerks, JD overheard Dr.
Cox talking about an intern who made his therapist "put him on a suicide/homicide watch" because he made his blood boil, but that intern turned out to be "a pretty good doctor."
JD immediately emphasized that "he" became a great doctor, but Perry crushed his hopes by saying that it was a female intern. When JD asked, "It wasn't me?", Cox went, "No, no, it was you." A very Dr. Cox way to give a compliment indeed!
3. Doctor Cox Teaches JD That Luck Matters
In the season 2 episode, My Lucky Day, Dr. Cox made the wrong diagnosis, and JD proved it. Overjoyed with his success and thinking he knew better than his mentor now, he became insufferable.
Perry offered JD a competition – treat two patients with identical symptoms and see who got better results.
When JD's patient died, Cox wanted to help him understand why, but JD angrily rejected him and began to obsess over the case.
In the end, Dr. Cox told JD that he did everything right, and that "the thing he forgot" was pure luck, helping him learn the valuable lesson that sometimes you just need to accept failure even if you did everything you could.
OK, time to binge-watch Scrubs again with someone who "loves you more than Turk."