Mindy Kaling, Zach Braff and Mekhi Phifer examine their roles as TV doctors

 Actors Mindy Kaling, Zach Braff and Mekhi Phifer, who have all played TV doctors, appeared on stage to present the award for outstanding writing for a drama series.

Phifer, who played a doctor on the hit NBC medical drama “ER,” said he was “so honored” to play a doctor on the show and that he was inspired by all of the physicians he’s known. 

Kaling starred as an OB/GYN on her namesake series “The Mindy Project,” and said she was inspired to play a doctor because of her mother, who was also an OB/GYN. 

Braff, however, didn’t have as moving of a statement when it came to sharing the inspiration behind playing his beloved role as a doctor on the long-running sitcom “Scrubs.” 

“I was waiting tables and serving the universally gracious people of Beverly Hills,” he said to laughs from the crowd, going on to joke about being a starving artist while having to eat hot dogs from 7-Eleven. 

“I was inspired to not live like that anymore,” Braff joked