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I am not much of a TV watcher but do enjoy Doc Martin with his ?Asperger's and long-suffering spouse. Why does she stay with him. Are doctors such chick magnets. As a sailor I would just love to get i
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Doc Martin
posted at 21/11/2011 5:05 AM GMT
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I am not much of a TV watcher but do enjoy Doc Martin with his ?Asperger's and long-suffering spouse. Why does she stay with him. Are doctors such chick magnets. As a sailor I would just love to get into a boat there and it is a pleasant reverie from the world I live in. I knew a few such doctors but I am interested to know what others find about this show if it is still on in the UK and elsewhere. I note how miraculously a man comes too after a jab of hydrocortisone for his Addisonian crisis/collapse. I sometimes think it would be nice to be a Doc Martin (sans Asperger's) in such a sea-side town. Perhaps it reminds me of a town I grew up in called Ballina in NSW on the coast and about which I wrote my book. I think along the way, the city doc has lost something and so has his/her patients. |
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Re: Doc Martin
posted at 21/11/2011 11:43 AM GMT
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It's still on, still being made, new seasons abound. Martin Clunes will always be Gary from Men Behaving Badly, so seeing him as Doc Martin confuses me. I remember watching the first couple of episodes, and accidentally caught an episode at my parents' house the other day, in which he climbed a ladder onto a school roof to rescue the caretaker who had become delirius due to carbon monoxide poisoning, he had deduced. His long sufferring wife how has a small child to look after too. The addisonian crisis recovery is only bettered by House grabbing hold of a wheelchair bound "locked in" patient on the way to the lift, having been "thoroughly investigated" for 2 weeks, with no obvious diagnosis, stabbing him/her with cortisone and, hey presto up out of the chair they get! Presumably this is the magical kind of Addisonian coma that is not detectable by the U&E they presumably did on arrival to hospital.... What was this thread about? Ah yes - Doc Martin. Sunday night whimsy. My uncle is a rural Scottish GP and leads a similar existence up in the Black Isle. Couldn't comment on the Asperger's, though...
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Re: Doc Martin
posted at 25/11/2011 10:21 AM GMT
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I am surprised these two posts of mine have sat dormant for so long. If they were grape vines it would be time for harvest. Why leave a post with no comments for so long? i have posted a few questions for discussion to find them gone when I wake up in the morning. This is indeed a curious site.
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I am ashamed to admit it but enjoy Doc Martin most likley because it is so far fetched as to be not like the real job...|
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Re: Doc Martin
posted at 7/12/2011 2:52 AM GMT
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Don't be ashamed. I like the way he talks to people particularly patients. It is how many of us feel but we are prevented from saying such by our kindly and sociable personnas. John Clease of Fawlty Towers is another such character. Don't you ever imagine the crocodile pit under your difficult patient's chair and the trapdoor handle under your desk? GOMER (Get out of my emergency room) is another case of this in the book, City of God. if only! Squeals of delight..... We need characters in plays and film as they are our alter-egoes we dream of being but can never be. My wife who is a shrink thinks it a reall hoot when I say I dream of being a psychopath.
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