Doctor Who is the world's longest continually produced science fiction serial. It aired on the British BBC network from 1963 until 1989, and was revived briefly as a television movie in 1996. In the United States, Doctor Who first began...

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To reduce their stress, Ephrata Community Hospital gives patients photo cards to help them identify unfamiliar physicians. CINDY STAUFFER Joseph Engel had a surgeon. He had an ear, nose and throat physician. He had an internal medicine physician. People with white...

Back to the future, with better FX: A new Doctor is in DOCTOR WHO Fridays at 9 on SciFi In the U.K., this series about a time-traveling sleuth is as much of a stone-cold classic as The Twilight Zone is here....

Doctors who volunteer to treat the wounds of terrorists under a terrorist organization's direction can be prosecuted under U.S. terrorism laws, a judge said Tuesday.Dr. Rafiq Abdus Sabir is accused of agreeing to treat al-Qaida members, but he has claimed it is unconstitutional to prosecute...

A suspect in the failed terror attack on Scotland's busiest airport was unlikely to survive his severe burn injuries, a doctor who has treated him said Tuesday."The prognosis is not good and he is not likely to survive," a member of the medical team that...

In the following essay, Oglesbee details how conventions of science fiction and literary melodrama are utilized in Dr. Who.