#doc

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#doctor #healing #medicine #medicine

Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them. ↗

— Edward E. Rosenbaum

#illness #medicine #medicine

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#medicine #medicine

When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better. ↗

— Elton Pope

#doctor-who #sci-fi #sci-fi

To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained. ↗

— Doctor Who

#sci-fi #television-quotes #sci-fi

The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle. [Adam faints] The Doctor: [leans towards Rose, still looking out over the Earth] He's your boyfriend. ↗

— Russell T. Davies

#mankind

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist! ↗

— Russell T. Davies

#the-end-of-time #blessings

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doctor-who #eleventh-doctor #doctor-who

Geronimo! ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doctor-who #the-doctor #doctor-who

Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that. ↗