Meet the woman health worker: medium skin tone emoji, the go-to icon for doctors, nurses, PAs, NPs, med students, and anyone rocking a white coat IRL or in spirit. It signals healthcare, checkups, wellness advice, and that one friend who turns every group chat into WebMD Live. The medium skin tone adds a warm tan shade, letting you represent people more accurately and stylishly.
On Apple/iOS, she’s shown head-and-shoulders in a crisp white lab coat over teal scrubs, with a silver-gray stethoscope draped neatly around her neck. She faces forward with a calm, friendly expression and brown hair framing her face—clean, flat colors and the classic Apple polish make her instantly recognizable. No surgical mask or hat here; it’s the clean clinic look that says “appointments available, stat.”
People drop this when booking a physical, thanking frontline heroes, sharing health updates, or diagnosing the group chat’s weekly chaos (“I’m prescribing water and sleep”). It shows up in memes—paging Dr. You, Grey’s Anatomy marathons, House-level hot takes—and even gaming chats to rep the “healer main” energy. It can be flirty (“let me check your heartbeat”), sarcastic (“not a doctor but…”), or tender when wishing someone a speedy recovery.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 10 update.
