The figure of the doctor has always been surrounded by a heroic aura, warranted by the possession of hard-earned medical knowledge and the tenacious reliance on doctors’ ability to heal and emancipate from pain and suffering. However, recent literary and visual-cultural representations of doctors have unsettled the dominant and homogenized perception of physicians as heroes. Particularly, representations in mainstream books, popular media, and comics, which have predominantly offered unilaterally positive initial portrayals of doctors as superhuman figures, eventually provided people with more nuanced and realistic representations, disclosing the “undesirable and unprofessional attitudes” of physicians and their sufferings. Ian Williams’ graphic narratives The Bad Doctor (2014, Oxford: Myriad Editions) and The Lady Doctor (2019, Oxford: Myriad Editions) serve as a critical lens to reflect on the postmodern perspective of doctor as a “wounded healer” and illuminate the problematic view of physicians as heroes. Drawing instances from the aforementioned graphic narratives, this essay aims to provide a revisionary understanding of physicians from heroes to victims of larger-than-life forces such as bureaucracy and the demands of patients. The essay scrutinizes how the verbal-visual medium of comics facilitates the envisioning and enunciating of the troubled personal and professional lives of physicians and the complexities involved in the medical profession.

医生的形象一直被一种英雄气概所包围，这源于拥有来之不易的医学知识以及对医生治愈和摆脱痛苦和痛苦的能力的顽强依赖。然而，最近对医生的文学和视觉文化表现动摇了医生作为英雄的主流和同质化的看法。特别是主流书籍、大众媒体和漫画中的表现，最初主要是单方面正面地将医生描绘成超人，最终为人们提供了更加细致和现实的表现，揭露了医生的“不良和不专业态度”及其痛苦. 伊恩·威廉姆斯的图形叙事坏医生（2014 年，牛津：无数版）和《女医生》（2019 年，牛津：无数版）作为一个批判性镜头，反思了医生作为“受伤的治疗者”的后现代观点，并阐明了医生作为英雄的问题观点。本文从上述图形叙述中汲取实例，旨在提供对医生的修正理解，从英雄到官僚主义和患者需求等超乎生命力量的受害者。这篇文章仔细研究了漫画的语言-视觉媒介如何促进对医生陷入困境的个人和职业生活以及医疗行业所涉及的复杂性的设想和阐述。