Dr. Philobosian is an Armenian doctor who Lefty and Desdemona meet in Smyrna during the city’s brutal destruction by the Turkish Army. Dr. Philobosian hopes that he will be kept safe by the fact that he treated the Turkish Commander in Chief, Mustafa Kemal Pasha. However, his family ends up being slaughtered, leaving Dr. Philobosian suicidal. Lefty and Desdemona bring him with them to the U.S., where he ends up settling in the same Greek community as them in Detroit and serving as their family doctor. He marries the nurse who helps him to deliver Callie.