DocsApp - Consult a Doctor
Medical and Health & Fitness
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1. Ask your health question 2. Get a doctor allotted to you 3. Give your details, upload diagnostic...
Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated Two Pints of Lager (and a Packet of Crisps) - Season 5 in TV
Aug 21, 2019
The Mountain (2019)
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The story of a young man who, after losing his mother, goes to work with a doctor specializing in...
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
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During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), is a young doctor who has been raised by...
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused...
Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography
Elisabeth Sladen and David Tennant
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When Elisabeth Sladen debuted as journalist Sarah Jane Smith in the 1973 Doctor Who story 'The Time...
Booksnthreads (19 KP) rated Doctor Who: Time Lord Fairy Tales in Books
Jun 5, 2018
I found it fun that in most stories, I could clearly identify which Doctor was appearing in that story. I also appreciated that he is often not the main character.
It was so much fun to read that it was over far too quickly.
Skwchance (13 KP) rated The Prison Doctor in Books
Nov 3, 2019
Pepi Doctor
Education and Games
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Is your kid afraid of the doctors? What about dentists? Try a little help from a child-friendly PEPI...
David McK (3692 KP) rated Doctor Who: Spare Parts in Books
Mar 15, 2020
I still watch the (current Doctor) Jodie Whittaker episodes.
Next to the Daleks and The Master, I think the Cybermen are (perhaps) the Doctors most-famous enemies.
However, I've never really found them all that scary: I think because the fact that they are fully encased in their armour (unlike the Star Trek counterparts of the Borg) makes them seem less relevant, less of a body-horror than said Borg.
With all that said, I'd heard recently that this was one of the best Doctor Who Cybermen stories, and so thought I would give it a listen: Set on the world of Mondas, this story deals with the ascension of the Cybermen (well, one ascension anyway: they've had more ascensions than I've had hot dinners!), set during Peter Davison's tenure as The Doctor.
It's not a bad listen, with Davison reprising his role and with the story carefully laying out it's stall (and trying to show the horrors of becoming a Cyberman) through having an audience surrogate of a family on Mondas that The Doctor and his travelling companion Nyssa encounter, and try to help.
But is time a constant? Are some things destined to be? …
Listen and find out!