Culber is the real sleeper here because he'll deal stealth emotional damage. That sweet smile, those deep eyes, and then he says the most snarky, sarcastic shit you can imagine given the situation. This is the only way to tame Stamets after all.
Fair enough, I would have given any name that wasn't on the list, I mean, Tom Paris was a doc for a short bit, right? (My collectors plate has it in a footnote)
Toss up between EMH and T'Ana, really, but I'd say T'Ana has more lovable burnout energy that the crew vibe with, where the EMH is just kind of a dick. I love him, he's one of my favorite characters in all of Trek, but his bedside manner makes him a huge pain in the ass for anyone normal to work with. The people who got along best with him are Seven, who basically had high-functioning autism implants from the Borg, and Kes, who was, by and large, incapable of being mad. Janeway dealt with him fine because she just never took any shit from him as a matter of policy, and the only other person he vibed hard with was a fucking serial killer. Tom Paris, who stands out for being by far the biggest normie on Voyager, couldn't stand the EMH (though he also hated sick bay).
So, gotta go with EMH having the worst bedside manner.
Going to have to agree. He was never intended to need a good bedside manner because he was never supposed to be doing long term patient care. So they never bothered to program it.
He was designed for emergencies: "Do this. Do it now. Moving on."
Leonard "Bones" McCoy, USS Enterprise NCC-1701/-A (TOS)
Beverly Crusher, USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D/-E (TNG)
T'Ana, USS Cerritos NCC 75567 (LD)
Emergency Medical Hologram Mk. I, while there are many instantiations this one's presumably "the Doctor," USS Voyager NCC-74656/(-A) VOY/(+PRO, eventually)