32 Facts About Perry Cox

Perry Cox is a sarcastic, cynical, misanthrope, who has a quick wit normally expressed through frequent and sometimes incredibly long rants.

Perry Cox has a "married but not married" relationship with his equally acerbic ex-wife, Jordan Sullivan, with whom he has a son, Jack, and a daughter, Jennifer Dylan.

Perry Cox is athletic, often found playing basketball in the hospital's parking lot with younger employees.

Perry Cox is extremely narcissistic and egocentric; when named by a magazine as the best doctor in the city, he lines up every staff member beneath him, and his ex-wife, to consecutively praise him, or risk a physical reprisal from the Janitor.

Ironically, while he goes out of his way to distance himself from others, Perry Cox often gets mixed up in the lives of both his patients and those around him.

Perry Cox accepts the position of chief of medicine after Kelso retires.

Perry Cox temporarily holds the position until the board finds a replacement, Dr Taylor Maddox.

Perry Cox is initially hesitant to take the job out of fear of losing the connection he has with his patients.

Perry Cox is a very good golfer, regularly besting Kelso.

Perry Cox is occasionally seen wearing a Detroit Red Wings jersey.

Perry Cox has been seen wearing a T-shirt for Cheli's Chili Bar, a small chain of restaurants owned by Chelios.

Perry Cox is a graduate of Hale University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the former being a fictional adaptation of Yale University.

Perry Cox is often seen drinking scotch and has acknowledged that he has a drinking problem.

In one episode, it is seen that Cox helped Turk with how to deal with women when they are mad, Turk eventually taking Perry's advice.

Turk soon learns that Carla and Perry Cox went on a date before Turk came to the hospital.

When Kelso retires and Perry Cox succeeds him as chief of medicine, Perry Cox confides in him about the pressures of the job, and the two form a "secret friendship".

Perry Cox tells JD that he trusts him as a doctor and a person and has taken an interest in him from the start because he seems "to actually give a crap".

Perry Cox recommends him as a promising, skilled, and hard-working doctor to a review board.

In "My Finale", Perry Cox finally admits that he considers JD a talented doctor, a good person, and a friend, although he has to be tricked into it.

Perry Cox refuses to say this directly to JD or to hug him.

Perry Cox immediately begins berating the series' new protagonist, Lucy Bennett, and takes an interest in one of his students, Drew Suffin.

Perry Cox has a sister, Paige, who is a born-again Christian.

Perry Cox is presented as an ardent skeptic who says that he does not "technically believe" in God.

Perry Cox opposes the Iraq War and is disgusted when Elliot reveals that she is a Republican.

Perry Cox's father was an abusive alcoholic, and he later says that his mother did nothing to stop him when he "drunkenly knocked us from room to room".

Perry Cox was apparently legally divorced from Jordan Sullivan, but the two have lived together in an exclusive relationship since Jordan discovered she was pregnant.

At first, Perry Cox feels nothing for the then-nameless boy, but begins to feel a connection after the child responds to the name Jack, which Perry Cox had been trying to impress upon him for some time.

Perry Cox has a very unorthodox way of raising Jack, often treating him like his "drinking buddy".

Nonetheless, Perry Cox loves his son and tries fervently to be a better father than his own was.

Perry Cox dotes on his daughter; among other things, he goes far out of his way to have someone else give her a shot so that she will not associate him with pain.

Perry Cox is best friends with Jordan's brother, Ben, and is hit hard when he is diagnosed with leukemia; he is initially too afraid to treat him because he fears he will lose him.

Ben dies in the episode "My Screw Up", but Perry Cox convinces himself that he is still alive.