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.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

None of us came here for the bells and whistles. It’s [for] the personnel. These meetings? Like the one where you got your ass kicked? That’s what makes you a better doctor. That’s all that...

The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean – so Bunbury died.He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that...

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Of the many ‘firsts’ with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the...

Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don’t live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them,...

How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people’s future.

Angel Bob: Doctor? Excuse me, hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir. The Doctor: Ah, there you are, Angel Bob. How’s life? Sorry, bad subject. Angel Bob: The Angels are wondering what you hope to achieve....

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.

And then he said the next time he sees me the gloves are coming off. I said, “Doc, that‘s no way to perform a prostrate exam.

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I’m so depleted on vitamin D.

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

Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all — clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible....

I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

I’m taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people....

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday – because of a doctor’s arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are...

Love is what you make it. Unfortunately, I can’t make it today, as I have a doctor’s appointment.

Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He’d say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he’d add a chin stroke for good measure. He always looked pleased when he did this,...

The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there’s trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it’s a miracle.

You don’t want to take over the universe. You wouldn’t know what to do with it beyond shout at it.