As a doctor, I’ve learned the importance and value of listening.
Lyrically and thematically, the title ‘Doctor Faith’, that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.
An abortion is expensive. Its cost includes pay for the doctor, supporting medical staff, their health benefits packages, and malpractice insurance.
I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.
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 really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid.
When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.
The term ‘doctor’ has been so abused lately! I didn’t live in a hospital for 10 years so that term could be bastardized.
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
I think Tom Frieden, the CDC director, is a good man, is a good doctor and, I think, basically has done a good job.
I wanted to be a doctor, that was the goal.
Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other natural therapies into their lives. These are all preventive measures that will keep them out of the doctor’s office and drive down the costs of treating serious problems like heart disease and diabetes.
I remember getting to New York and riding the subway in the morning to go to a doctor’s appointment, and getting jealous of commuters that were going to their jobs.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
I was really so excited when it came back on air and I saw all three of the actors who played ‘Doctor Who’ in the new version and they’ve all been absolutely brilliant in their own special way, as all the Doctors always are.
Fields make huge progress when they move from stories (e.g Icarus) and authority (e.g ‘witch doctor’) to evidence/experiment (e.g physics, wind tunnels) and quantitative models (e.g design of modern aircraft).
I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.
I like porterhouse steak, rib-eyes and New York strip. This works for me because I have very low cholesterol and low blood pressure. It’s not good for everyone; you have to talk to your doctor about that. I also eat fish and cheese. I like clean food prepared as simply as possible.
I’ve had more acne as an adult than I had as a teenager. After weaning babies, my skin’s gone totally bonkers. I didn’t even know about dermatologists until I had weaned my first baby, and my skin was so damaged. It was just beyond. And then, I realized, there’s a whole doctor who can help you with this.
If I could film, we’d film every episode of ‘Doctor Who’ in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician… tailor.
When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don’t actually go and do it. It’s not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.
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.
If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.
On ‘Black-ish,’ I like my makeup to be really natural – so much that I can do it myself. My character is a mother of four and a doctor and a wife, who would not have time to be putting on eyeshadow or curling her lashes.
‘Doctor Who’ is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.
My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.
Any time I go to a hospital, the doctors treat me like an equal, and I’m terrified I’ll be in the delivery room, and the doctor will say, ‘Noah. Noah, why don’t you get a hand in here?’ and I’ll pass out or throw up and be horribly embarrassed.
My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count was low. So then I went through many more tests including bone marrow biopsies until they figured out that I had neutropenia.
I mean, I’m married to an academic oncologist, a cancer doctor, okay? He and his colleagues are some of the most conscientious, devoted, hard-working, conventional bourgeois people in the known universe. They are the people that keep this society going.
When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.
Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It’s like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
If you don’t have a doctor that inspires you, no matter what you have, you should find one that does. Because I feel like my doctor helped me stay alive.
Time is generally the best doctor.
When I went back and watched a couple of the older ‘Doctor Who’ episodes, I could see why some people felt the show had been quite sexist.
Being treated by a doctor who specializes in your kind of cancer is so important, especially for those of us who have rare or very rare cancers. They will have access to newer treatment options that may be offered only at big academic cancer centers, so you don’t miss out on treatments that could help you.
I get work because I’m primarily a novelist but I’ve become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.
Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.
The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn’t have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There’s good paternity and maternity leave – the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn’t give parents anything.
My parents never understood why I didn’t want to be a doctor or lawyer. They’re Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what ‘the dream’ entailed.
Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.
Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Not as many people watch ‘Doctor Who’ as watch the Super Bowl, obviously, but the tropes that attract nerds are no longer a secret cult. It’s a much larger culture, in the specific sense.
I’m human, we all are – all doctors are – and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you’d get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important.
Being the first female Doctor and showing children that their heroes in shows don’t always look the same is a huge honour for me.
The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it’s not normal, and hadn’t been normal for about 20 years.
