Amidst the recent political uprisings in the region, physicians and other healthcare workers have found themselves, willy-nilly, in the crossfire. This paper focuses on Egypt’s medics, paying special attention to how many have both appealed to and practiced medical neutrality as its own potent and contested political stance, particularly since the period of military rule following Mubarak’s removal from power. The paper draws on interviews with key players in the doctors' strike and with physicians who served as volunteers in the field hospitals in the days of unrest and violence, including those who belong to organizations, such as “Tahrir Doctors,” “Doctors Without Rights” and “Operation: Anti-Harassment.” The paper reveals how their commitment to medical neutrality put them at odds with the orders of military personnel, infuriated throngs of protestors, led to suspicion among members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and even caused divisions and fractions within their own movement.