I played a doctor on 'Chicago Hope' 15 years or so ago, and I did go and watch an open heart surgery.
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
I'm a family doctor, and a big part of what I do is preventative care, and breast cancer is one of the illnesses that women suffer from greatly in this country.
In an ideal world, 'Doctor Who' makes the whole nation eight years old, with that excitement and engagement and wide-eyedness.
'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.
Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.
Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?
I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes'?
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.
'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.
Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.
I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.
When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.
So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had.
I'm so excited 'Doctor Who''s coming back. It's a great show, wild and exciting. I watched it as a kid, and it freaked me out.
I've seen [Lalla Ward] episodes of "Doctor Who." They're good, at least partly because the scripts were written by Douglas Adams.
I wanted Jeev to become doctor or an engineer, but after seeing his talent and interest in golf, I dropped that idea.
I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.
I started watching some 'Doctor Who' recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime - I'm pathetic.
By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
As soon as I finished 'Doctor Foster,' I obviously wanted to run straight home to give my husband a big cuddle.
It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.
I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.
My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'
I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.
I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)
Yes, my father is bald, but I found a way to save my hair. I met with a doctor in Brazil who has developed a special treatment.
The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
I grew up the son of the village doctor, so my father was quite well known. At home in Northumberland, frankly Dad is the famous one.
My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.
My father is a doctor and my mother ran the local pharmacy. Growing up, I saw firsthand the difference they made to our community.
My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
My childhood best friend is an anesthesiologist. It's the least amount of human interaction for a doctor. I don't think you can get that burned out on it.
I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
The steep price tag of cancer treatment needs to continue to be a part of the national conversation, not just the patient-doctor one.
It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.
Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.
I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
The place where I hail from - a village in Gopalganj in North Bihar - people only know two professions: an engineer or a doctor.
I've changed my own lifestyle since a doctor warned me my cholesterol levels meant I was in danger of a heart attack.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.
My kids' doctor will quickly answer any email, even if it's 11:00 at night. That's important to me.
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