Dr. Martin Ellingham quotes from Doc Martin

Dr. Martin Ellingham

The man thinks he lives with a giant squirrel. He needs help.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

I may vomit.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Mrs. Tishell will give you the tablets. One in the morning, before the food, and one... one in the evening before going to bed. (The patient left the surgery) Or you just die. It's your decision.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Why doesn't anyone in this village do as I say?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

(Speaking to a patient) Portwenn has one doctor and 966 people who know better.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

In the years that come, when the archeologists unearth the ruins of Portwenn, someone will ask the question: "How this unspeakable disaster could have?". How? Because "Miss Glasson said."

Dr. Martin Ellingham

(To the dog)Get out!

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Take your hands off me, you unctuous platitudinising eunuch!

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Not for me, thanks. Salmonella en croute, made yesterday by unwashed strangers - no thank you!

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Cardiovascular diseases cause more deaths in this country than any other medical condition. Joan was overweight, refused to exercise, and had a poor diet. Cardiovascular disease is caused by an atheroma in the walls of the arteries around the heart. A good percentage of the people in this church are clinically obese. Eating a healthy diet and keeping physically active not only protects your heart but reduces the risk of a stroke or dementia.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

(Martin's bed time story) Um. This is an article by Dr Henry Wolfestein on the need to focus on cytotoxic therapies for cancer patients. That's a picture of Dr Wolfestein there. Patients with advanced liver cancer who had not previously received chemotherapy were randomly allocated to three different regimens representing minimal, conventional and intensive cytotoxic treatment. Patients with impaired renal function were excluded from the study and the results stratified according to retrospective analysis based on previous research.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Unless you let me give you that injection, I will fire you.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

I'll do.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

...and I do hate Port Wenn. I hate the people - their pinched faces, and their ridiculous accents, and their unerring knack of catching any virus that comes within a five-mile radius! They spread contagion like a bush fire! But it's where I want to be, because you're here.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

(To Dennis Dodds) Would you like to come to dinner? If you have a partner or wife you can bring her too. (To Louisa) What do you think, darling?

Louisa Glasson

You cross the line just once in Portwenn and ... will you stop that?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Is the vision a little blurred in that eye?

Louisa Glasson

Yes.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Hmm. Fixed and semi-dilated pupil. Bit of pain?

Louisa Glasson

Sometimes. What?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

It's acute glaucoma.

Louisa Glasson

You're kidding.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

No. You should see an eye specialist today.