The really good doctors out there are real-life heroes. Playing one on TV is a cheaper alternative and certainly satisfies what is left of my medical ambitions.
Instead of writing thrillers to pay for my train bills, I was actually now going to medical school in order to have something to write about.
The very rich, very poor, and the very famous get the worst medical care. The very rich can buy it, the very poor can’t get any, and the very famous can dictate it.
The most common things I would go out for would be, like, ‘the Lab Technician’ on a crime procedural, usually an expert in either a medical or a computer-oriented field.
I loved working on ‘House,’ but I never ever want to do another medical show. It’s ‘fiddly’ stuff.
The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told – and that’s why it’s so popular.
I don’t think you should rely on medicine. I think you should rely upon herbal doctors, acupuncture, and doctors outside the medical world, with different kinds and forms of treatment.
The worst position you are in is when you are on the medical bed, and you can’t get out on that training pitch.
Only three per cent of people are born with a disability; the rest acquire it through accident or illness, but people come out of it. Thanks to medical advances, bodies heal.
As an African, there are certain professions your family want you to do or are willing to sign off. Being in the medical professional, as a doctor, pharmacist, a nurse, or being an engineer – those are the only professions allowed!
An abortion is expensive. Its cost includes pay for the doctor, supporting medical staff, their health benefits packages, and malpractice insurance.
My parents were actors. And so I was born in New York City, and when I was 7, they quit acting and went back to medical school at the University Of Chicago.
Chelsea Manning has a platform to serve herself, but many veterans don’t even get medical treatment when they need it.
Sometimes I don’t even accept the simplest medical treatment, such as, for example, the anti-flu vaccine.
I believe that attributing flaws to medical characters makes them not just doctors but something more. It makes them people.
One of the things I learned on medical drama ‘Bodies’ was that actors can’t play ambiguity.
In my third year at medical school in Birmingham, I joined the Air Force as a medical cadet so that I was sponsored to become a doctor.
The doctor part of me recognises the light and shade of medical life, but the writer in me is more attracted by the darkness, perhaps because it is the road less travelled.
In ‘Bodies,’ we had a lot of gore because other medical dramas at the time had these hospitals where even a drop of blood seemed to be too much, which is clearly not what it’s like when you cut someone up.
In ‘Bodies,’ we had a lot of gore because it was a medical drama. The gore was authentic.
‘Cardiac Arrest’ was the first British drama to use a lot of medical jargon. ‘ER’ began the following year and was the first American drama to do that.
My family’s very medical, so as a field, that, I think, it’s so important and wonderful, something I’m definitely interested in. Just not for a living!
In my space journey, I felt vulnerable because we did not have anyone with medical background. When we make that big trip to Mars, we would need a doctor on board.
A lot of medical problems are solved if doctors are nice to patients. If you can make them think positive, you may not need medication.
We need to provide all areas of the country with access to high-quality medical care.
