Swenson, her former teacher, was the doctor on call the night that caused Singh, then a medical resident, to change the course of her career.

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The maximum working-hours directive, for instance, will leave governments free to decide whether they define an on-call junior doctor as working or not.

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It's a state of being, and like a doctor who delivers babies, I'm on call all the time because that's the kind of work this is.

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Sheen was "very, very intoxicated, also apparently in a lot of pain" on the morning of January 27, according to a 911 call from a doctor who had just talked to the actor.

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For parents afraid to call the doctor for their children, because they cannot pay the bills, help is on the way.

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Word on the Water is a floating second-hand bookshop owned by three men who call themselves "The Doctor", "The Professor" and "The Captain".

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