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Disc No.16
Audio:English
Subtitle:English
The main character is Dr. Douglas "Doogie" Howser (Harris), the son of David and Catherine Howser. As a child, he was was diagnosed with early-stage pediatric leukemia, "first when I was four and then...again when I was six",[4] after suspicious bruising was discovered by his father, who is also a medical doctor. After successful treatments, he began to express a genius level of intelligence. At age six, he got a perfect score on the SAT. He completed high school in nine weeks, graduated from Princeton University at age 10 and finished medical school four years later. At age 14, he was the youngest licensed doctor in the country. The series picks up on his 16th birthday; the cold open of the pilot episode shows him stopping his field test for his drivers license to help an injured person at the scene of a traffic accident.
In the series, Doogie works as a resident surgeon at a hospital in Los Angeles, and still lives at home with his parents. He also has a best friend, Vinnie Delpino (Max Casella), who is a more typical teenager and keeps him grounded in life outside his profession. He keeps a diary on his computer; episodes typically end with him making an entry in it. A trademark of the show was Vinnie climbing in through his window, to visit his friend. Doogie initially has a girlfriend, Wanda Plenn, but they break up in the course of the series.
Many of the episodes deal with problems beyond just "Doogie is a teen-aged genius". There are also episodes which deal with things like AIDS awareness, gang violence and losing ones virginity, along with more mundane things, like aging, body issues and friendship. Doogie is faced, repeatedly, with dealing with his own perceptions of the world, along with over coming other peoples perceptions of him.
Also, repeatedly, the show reminds the viewer that there are people close to home (Central and South America) who need medical care. His father, actually, goes on two trips over the course of the series to do medicine in poorer communities south of the border.
