#doctor

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really. ↗

— Tom Baker

#always #any #been #doctor #entertainer

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star. ↗

— Tom Baker

#doctor #i #important #joined #know

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#called #doctor #dr #during #happened

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ↗

— Hugo Black

#advice #advised #again #carefully #could

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#cannot #created #destroyed #doctor #passion

I do think there’s always a way to put things right. If I didn’t believe that I wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning, I wouldn’t eat breakfast; I wouldn’t leave the TARDIS ever. I would never have left home. There is always something we can do. ↗

— Paul Magrs

#tardis #home

Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve been taught about the enormous power over life and death that is invested in us; we can be deluded into thinking we are almighty. Almost instinctively we view death, incurable disease and disability as challenging our power. We forget that this is all part of life. I guess that we have to defend ourselves against the human suffering that confronts us every day, otherwise we’d quickly go under. Medical jargon helps keep us remote, yet seeing colleagues suffer is hard. If we think too much, we realise that we – and our loved ones – are just as vulnerable as the rest of humanity. ↗

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

#medical-jargon #death

Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#death #doctors #raven #death

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears. ↗

— Criss Jami

#broken-hearts #comforting #crying #doctor #father

Exhausted after a full day of treating patients, William Carlos Williams angrily answered the phone. “Doctor,” said a woman’s voice, “my child has swallowed a mouse.” “Then get him to swallow a cat,” he replied, and slammed down the receiver. ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#williamcarloswilliams #dreams