Was the wife of Carl Brashear a doctor?

Right - his wife was an MD.

Just like The Cosby Show where Cliff Huxtable is an MD and his wife is a JD (it was a fictional tv sitcom; not reality).

Just like in the Oprah Winfrey-produced movie "The Great Debaters" starring Denzel Washington where an all-black college beats Harvard at a debate. (In reality, the school that movie was based on never even met Harvard in a debate).

Just like in the movie "Akeelah and the Bee" where an African-American student wins the famed Scripps National Spelling Bee (has never happened in reality).