My name is Elliot Reid, and I'm a Medical Doctor at Sacred Heart Hospital. I'm close friends with John Dorian, aka J.D., Turk, and Carla. J.D. and I have had a complicated relationship, going from friends to dating, friends to dating, sex buddies, back to friends. We're currently roomies.
I'm the only daughter of Simon and Lily Reid, and my father is Chief of Medicine at a private hospital in Greenwich. I grew up privileged but love-starved; I think a lot of my neuroses deal with years of neglect from my alcoholic mother, as well as attempting to get my father's attention. I eventually stood up to him after he pressured me about my career choices. Subsequently, my parents cut me off, forcing me to fend for myself, frick.
I have four brothers, one of whom is named Barry and is gay. I once found Barry's Playgirl magazines once and I know Barry used to dance for Japanese businessmen, and the family sent him to 'hetero camp.' I also have a brother named Bradley, with whom I used to play 'The Wonder Twins.' I mentioned once that all the males in my family are doctors (including my father, grandfather and my brother).
Our family also had a Latina maid/nanny called Consuela, who I was very close with. She sometimes filled the maternal role for my mother, who was too busy having affairs with her Latino poolboys to pay attention to her daughter. My father told me that Consuela died, but I later discovered that she was deported for putting knives in the fork drawer of the Reids' kitchen.
I also have a Great Aunt Sally and a demented Great Uncle who wears an eye patch and says 'Honka Honka' when he goes to the bathroom. JD once met them when they visited the hospital, which became an inside joke between us.
When first introduced, I was such a hyper-competitive, talkative loudmouth who always put her foot in her mouth at every conceivable opportunity (I once asked a fat woman "So, when's the baby due?" and accidentally insulted Turk's Jehovah's Witness mother by describing them as crazed, annoying busybodies).
I have cold hands because of bad circulation, I don't like to be touched, votes Republican (although I'm very concerned about that information becoming public), I speak German and French (and I'm also very insecure about my eyebrows, my "camel butt" and my bangs). I also have panic attacks, and describe myself as being claustrophobic, germ-phobic and "phobia-phobic." My one house rule is that I cannot talk or be talked to while I am on the toilet, or talk or be talked to by anyone who is on the toilet (a rule which Carla broke a number of times while staying with me). My masculine name is because my parents were expecting a male child, and didn't change the name once I was born.
I served as joint Chief Resident (with J.D.) during my third year of residency. I even received an endocrinology fellowship at a different hospital, requiring me to leave Sacred Heart. However, this new fellowship only lasted five days and I managed to get a job back at Sacred Heart right after. Now I'm in Private Practice! Yes!
