Polly still could not see how leaving with the doctor in the morning, heading to the slave market, would lead to a chance for freedom. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old memory surfaced of the doctor telling Rosa that clones went to pieces when they got older. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor says she’ll have to be in bed another four.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was a fairly successful doctor in California who later lived in Asia. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Ninety minutes later, the doctors were still working on Makalu when David Breashears’s voice barked over the radio: “We’re on our way down with Beck. We’ll have him to Camp Two by dark.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

That is one whole poem written by a doctor named William C. Williams. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor cut his bones, then sealed each artery and vein. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In 2006, some seven hundred new mothers found out that doctors had taken their placentas without consent to test for abnormalities that might help the hospital defend itself against future lawsuits over birth defects. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The witch doctor then signalled the old woman to bring his medicine bag. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could end up in the Slammer behind air locks and double steel doors, tended by nurses and doctors wearing space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After this, Peale took over the doctoring chores himself even though he too eventually contracted a mild case of yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Garfield’s doctors had always believed that the bullet traveled down through his abdomen toward his groin. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Please, help me. We need a doctor. We need medicine. My mother is sick.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In Stanleyville is where the doctor put a cast on my arm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Anna, as she was called, had not been well of late, and doctors had attributed her death to illness, because there seemed to be no evidence of foul play. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And by the last decade of the nineteenth century, American doctors embraced germ theory and Lister's advice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

So when it comes to chest pain, doctors gather as much information as they can, and then they make an estimate. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got to have college training. Like a doctor, almost. Takes a lot of money to go to veterinary school.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any month, however, the exam by the San Francisco Police Department doctors could reveal otherwise. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor rinsed his hands and dried them on a towel. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Probably money. Oh, and his father is a doctor.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Rumors are down there, kitchen tables, money exchanged in secret; evil old women, illegal doctors, disgrace and butchery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"No idea. For some reason, Mom sends me out to her old suburb for health care, to the same doctor and dentist who took care of her when she was a teenager." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The doctor already has written: Vincent's mental state has gotten worse. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Count backwards from ten, another doctor says, And before you completely drown, everything goes black. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I don't need some doctor's permission to see my folks. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the doctor's desk was a vase filled with silk flowers that might have once looked good, but now were dusty and faded on the side that faced the window. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mam looks at Dad as if he just came down from heaven and Dad says, That’s what we did in Antrim long before there were doctors riding their horses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I need to arrange to get a doctor out here.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You know what, Libby? He’s not—my dad isn’t actually a doctor. He’s just a janitor at the hospital.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nobody knew how long my father had been feeling poorly before he first took himself to the doctor, but my guess is it had already been months if not years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With a snap, he recapped the bottle and dropped it into the black doctor’s bag by his feet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Other doctors agreed with Kuhn and Devèze and put forward their own treatments, though no one claimed to have found an absolute cure, as Rush did. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Somewhere above me, the Pastor boomed robust greetings and explanations, leaving little room for the doctor’s understated replies. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The doctor stopped in his tracks with a look of elegant amazement and distaste, and the ward grew still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“If he doesn’t have this operation,” the Capital City doctor told them, “your father will be dead before six months are out.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The doctor was about to leave," she says. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The doctor himself had to stand the expense of the leaden box which went into the coffin of Josh Billings. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the doctor had just said that some children slept more than others. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“My blood finished on that floor even before he took me to St. Agnes. My doctor said there was nothing he could do to save it.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, come on then. You can wait with him until the doctor comes.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had never been to this kind of doctor; he suddenly became terrifying. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, as the doctor appears not to have known, lead is not excreted as a waste product. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You been to see a doctor? How come you to be so sure?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I will need a letter from the parish priest and a physical examination by my family doctor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The nurses and doctors didn’t want to touch the blood on the walls and were frankly fearful of breathing the air in the room, too. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Backing away, Luke and the doctor waited, tense and helpless. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

If there had been X-rays in that time the doctor might have found more injuries than he did. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless of what Macon had done, she’d always suspected that the doctor didn’t have to die if he hadn’t wanted to. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says, Sure, he was at school all day and he had to go to the doctor for his eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and you may see Roy as soon as the doctor says it’s allowed.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As good as Farmer was as a clinical doctor, Hiatt had been urging him to rethink his priorities, including reducing his Haiti involvement to the role of consultant. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The doctors and nurses conferred in the corridor for a minute and decided they would put me under general anesthetic and remove the splints that way. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But the audience of doctors has assembled behind the one-way glass, clipboards ready, pens poised. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

One of my dad’s doctors was from Kenya, and he became a friend to our family. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

To lift the lion’s paw knocker, to entertain thoughts of marrying the doctor’s daughter was possible because each key represented a house which he owned at the time. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find prenatal vitamin recommendations, sonograms, and photocopies of each visit to the doctor. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had this weird image of giant doctors in scrubs and face masks, pulling their boat upstream. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I see it in every doctor and every nurse and every person who comes into her path. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He had come to Eye Care hoping to join up with the doctors, he said. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor at the chessboard stood in respect. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Euwe, a doctor of philosophy in mathematics who had taught at the Amsterdam Lyceum, was a former World Champion, having defeated his predecessor in 1935 with a studied and logical approach to the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor opened up his bag and went to work. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

One of these friends also steered me toward a fertility doctor whom she and her husband had used. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now the doctor took up two of the hakata sticks in one hand and two in the other. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d be able to handle what I was going through without seeing any doctors. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Everybody said Miss Minner had sold her brains to a famous doctor for ten thousand dollars, so that after she was dead he could cut them up and see why she was so smart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When my mother went doctoring in the villages, the ghosts, the were-people, the apes dropped out of trees. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor told my mother that if I had remained in Africa another day or two, the infection would have spread through my body, causing sepsis. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Celia went to see another doctor yesterday afternoon to find out about having kids and I about told her, you can have this one, lady. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so after my doctor’s appointment yesterday I went uptown to try this coffee spot.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The doctors kept working, and there was nothing I could do to help her. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The doctor says, “We need to take a biopsy. You will want to telephone your wife.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cuco tracks were found along the path, with droplets of blood confirmed by the local witch doctor to be a match for the victim. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the doctors were working on it, and I wasn’t supposed to be afraid, because I was her granddaughter, and I would be fine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Behind the screen I undressed while the doctors waited. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you gave up being a doctor?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Not like she did, though. You don’t remember the whole doctor thing?” he asks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He filled his mother’s glass, then his sister’s and Marshall’s, and when he was standing by Robbie he said, “And a healing draft for the good doctor. I want to hear about this new plan.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the doctor in town and even the great doctor in Las Vegas had been powerless to cure him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Abernathy will not put on a gown,” said the doctor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After that, Ernest was seldom out of bed except for brief outings for fresh air and visits to the doctor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

No one at his side who isn’t a doctor or nurse. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Matt didn’t know why the doctor was so afraid of Tam Lin, but it pleased him deeply that it was so. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilbert was an English doctor and the advocate of a new philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I turned to watch the shark, as nervous as a kid might feel waiting for her name to be called for a doctor’s checkup, but nothing more. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The doctor does not look me in the eye when he says this. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got took away from my mama, and the doctor say that I got brain damage from that brick. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There had been one client, a young woman married to a doctor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The doctor said rest would be the best for her,” said a much deeper voice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As soon as the doctor said “family conditions” Mom bit down on her lower lip and uncrossed her legs, pulled down on her skirt, and crossed them the other way. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to take Ghalib to the pharmacy for the doctors,” Baba says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a handsome, sophisticated medical doctor with curly dark hair and round Fiorucci spectacles, a brilliant, ambitious man, charming and persuasive, with a quick, flaring temper, who had done extraordinary things in his career. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing wrong with her lungs,” the doctors told the Richardsons, though they warned of a host of other problems that might arise: jaundice, anemia, vision issues, hearing loss. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the doctors at the Children’s Hospital would put the girl on Farmer’s regimen, and she would recover to full health. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“The library had some notes the doctor published. Dr. Eastman. They said nothing about another baby. Just that one little boy, who didn’t die on Penikese.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We sure appreciate the money you been sending but with her cough getting worse I may need a little something extra to get her to the doctor if you have it to spare. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Some doctors in the first group were upset by the way Bliss pushed them aside, and they shared their displeasure with reporters. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The following morning Wlasich complained that he felt ill and then lost consciousness; a Norwegian doctor who happened to be present determined that the Austrian was suffering from both pulmonary and cerebral edema. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For once I was looking forward to the doctor holding my balls and telling me to cough, which I still don’t understand why they do. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

What Farmer knew for certain was he would become a doctor himself, and the sooner he could return to Haiti, the better. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Another doctor placed his hand over Lincoln’s heart. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Healey, this sounds like the kinda cough that isn’t going away real soon unless you get some doctoring and the right medicine.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up suddenly, aware of the doctor near her, and smiled uncertainly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor and Mr. Alacran were pleading with a third person whose replies were muffled. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young doctor agrees, however, that Lincoln should be resting in a bed, not on the floor. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

People looked up to doctors, but they looked up to surgeons more. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She went back to her father, still clutching Isannah by the hand, and Johnny went to the doctor. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor pulled on his gloves and picked up his bag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like doctors and undertakers, she really told good dying stories. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And the doctor does not take it amiss from them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing up the hill after her, bracing his knee with his palm, he’d wiped his hands on his trousers and answered our clamorous whispers—dead? is he—?—with the brief impersonal nod of a doctor.... The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Is the farmer, the doctor, the Indian, the greatest problem in America today? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors had to sew him up again, and I realized that Peewee was hurt worse than I thought he was. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor pulled my hair back, twisting it up into a messy bun that she secured with a rubber band. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The doctor diagnosed various problems, some lethal, all apparently debilitating, and left me taking various medications and endless rituals of check-ins and checkouts and tests and retests.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By the 600s, the doctors at the school were writing about a medicine from India named sharkara or, as the Persians called it, shaker— sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Things are going very well,” the doctor said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“At the hospital, when he had an operation on his face. My brother told me that the doctors wore green robes and masks over their faces,” she continued. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beat it,” said the doctor on duty there, who was doing a crossword puzzle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mudd had been helpful to Booth in Maryland, but the actor also needed the doctor’s help—an introduction—in Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And during a still moment where neither prayer nor song could be heard, I heard the doctor say, “How much longer do you think the daughter will be in there?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She would have been content as a doctor’s assistant, too, binding up cuts and bones. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

While no one knew what caused yellow fever, the doctors agreed that foul smells were not healthy and might promote disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the evening, the doctor sat outside his hut and drank beer. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought that she was still alive until the doctor said the police would be out to talk to me. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a doctor of philosophy, a Ph.D. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The note tells me to get something for dinner because she has a doctor’s appointment. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One of his former teammates stated, “He wasn’t a big fan of doctors and hospitals, that’s for sure.” The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Stella and Jojo then ran on to the house of the only Negro doctor in town, Dr. Hawkins, then to the schoolteacher’s, then to every other right-side house on Riverside Road. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The young man was abroad on a medical school scholarship, although he had no intention of becoming a doctor. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Told by their doctors that tea was good for their health, the English were drinking up to fifty cups a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been to see a doctor since I broke my wrist attempting a spectacularly unsuccessful front side nose grind off the Stokum library railing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Rosa flew at the doctor and raked his face with her nails before he was able to grasp her wrists. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors who had seen Raymond were the best in the world, she told us, and had assured her that with the proper treatment, his foot would heal as good as new. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘The doctor will not see you until you are properly sanitized.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure you’d be satisfied with only my heartfelt thanks”—El Patron chuckled as the doctors tried to hide their disappointment—“but you’ll be even more satisfied with these one-million-dollar checks.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I think Shoji is going to be my doctor. Aren’t you, Shoji?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The doctor did not think the trip would be useful in any way for his son’s future. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But suppose poor little Linnie got sick or something? And we needed a car to get her to a doctor?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor got off, and I got on for no other reason than that it was there, open, waiting for me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve, and could handle a horse as well as a plumbago pencil, the doctor set me off to neighboring parishes each Sabbath to copy other rectors' sermons. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few of his doctors and attendants climbed in beside him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It explained why her parents had brought her to New York, so that the doctors could work in secret. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The fact that Garfield's doctors inserted unwashed fingers into the bullet wound proved that they had NOT followed Lister's antiseptic methods. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was I who made the appointment for my father to see a doctor, but it was my mother who ultimately got him there—by ambulance, as it turned out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She sat down in the chair the doctor had left, and leaned her head back tiredly; how lovely she is, Eleanor thought, how thoughtlessly, luckily lovely. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor doesn’t want you to become anemic.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jewish children were disproportionately targeted—forcibly examined by state doctors, labeled “genetically sick,” and exterminated, often on the most minor pretexts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Put him down over here,” Nicole instructed, and they brought him to her doctor’s hut. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The two of them provided the mules with affection and doctoring and kind company. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the doctor whisked open the curtain by my hospital bed and said, “So I heard we have a ballerina in today!” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Think of it. Dr. Rush has seen two or three epidemics in his life. The French doctors came from the West Indies, where they treat yellow fever every year. Surely their experience is more valuable.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even in fourth grade, middle-class children appeared to be acting on their own behalf to gain advantages. They made special requests of teachers and doctors to adjust procedures to accommodate their desires.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The doctors attributed the tingling pains in his feet and legs to temporary nerve injury. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With the bouncing of the car, the emotions of the past few days, and the doctor’s potions, Clara had acquired a skill at giving birth that she did not have the first time around. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor gave Mom a price and I could tell by the disappointed way she said “I see” that she couldn’t afford the operation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then a doctor walked around the corner, and my mouth fell open. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was going to be a doctor to poor people. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Today PIH runs eleven clinics and hospitals, and it provides jobs for more than 5,400 Haitians—doctors, nurses, lab technicians, pharmacists, and counselors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was not unreasonable for him to anticipate his own death— he had been ill for so long, and the doctors could not figure out what was wrong with him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what time it was, he must wake up that good-for- nothing doctor and get his hand treated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors and nearly every man in the room took watches out of their pockets. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both he and Mom seemed relieved when the doctor asked them to leave the room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But then the doctor laid it on: “Wouldn’t you take antibiotics for a cold or if you had a small infection?” he asked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You must go to the doctor right away. Gregor is sick. Hurry to the doctor. Have you heard Gregor speak yet?" The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her the doctor said that Annie was doing a little better. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Rush, and for other doctors as well, this was simply a sign that the treatment was indeed working. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

At last he said: “You don’t understand. This isn’t something doctors generally use.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Others simply doctored the records so that afterward they were in perfect conformity with events. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had worse. No broken bones. No teeth knocked out. Just welts and bruises. What would the doctor do?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The doctor crept slowly to the bloody scene, observed it all, but made no comment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amid so much turmoil it was understandable that the work of a young and handsome doctor would go unnoticed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I arrived back at our own camp to find Rob, Dr. Caroline Mackenzie, and Scott Fischer’s doctor, Ingrid Hunt, engaged in a tense radio conversation with someone higher on the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the Randall plantation, the doctor was only called when the slave remedies, the roots and salves, had failed and a valued hand was near death. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As Garfield's progress slowed, and especially after his distressing relapse, the doctors began to consider removing the bullet in order to save his life. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She is nudging fourteen-year-old John, who brings home As, is a linebacker on the football squad and a squad leader in the Reserve Officers Training Corps, to consider becoming a doctor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

John Taske, who was a doctor, flew out as well to treat Charlotte and Mike en route. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t go to Amsterdam. One of my doctors thinks it’s a bad idea.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The doctor once told Rosa that clones went to pieces when they got older. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother said, “A grief counselor?” as if his father suggested he speak to a witch doctor. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Next he went about town to confer with other doctors. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But as we sat waiting for the doctor, we became aware of a silent commotion all around us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A few days after the operation, the doctors were ready to take off the bandages. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh, very poor. They didn’t have anything to eat for three days and just would have died, the doctor said, if I didn’t bring them that pie.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had bled considerably on a rug, while Dad tried to fashion a tourniquet and roared inquiries about whether there was a doctor in the house. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, a WAC station, I remember now. I was doctor for the lot, before I was sent overseas. My, they were a pretty bunch of girls." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“But didn’t the doctor take care of him?” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were moving purposefully, all together, straining to stay near one another, and the doctor’s flashlight swept the hall and stopped at the great front door, which was standing open wide. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says Mr. Hannon should see the doctor and Mrs. Hannon says, Sure, he seen the doctor a dozen times and the doctor says he has to stay off them legs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

No matter how smart the doctors are, or no matter what medication I take, I’ll always somewhere inside myself be wired wrong and nothing can be done about it. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same patient might be sent home by one doctor and checked into intensive care by another. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

My doctor walks back in, saving me from a parental conversation that might be even more painful than my elbow. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“You see, doctor?” he pointed to one of the foreign bodies which showed spherical and clear against the light. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A nurse and a doctor look me over from head to toe. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was shocked when her doctor pointed out the salt content. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor took a look and said it wasn’t chicken pox and it wasn’t measles. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's tommyrot. But just for once I think we've got to obey the doctor." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he brought other doctors to see me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s what my mom always says: ‘Go to school, study hard, then go to medical school, study even harder, and marry a nice doctor.’” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s no indication that Henrietta questioned him; like most patients in the 1950s, she deferred to anything her doctors said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And the cousin—doesn’t matter whose cousin—had the letter of invitation for the doctor of Isfahan, which he had promised to deliver in exchange for a meager fee. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And in Chicago a young handsome doctor stepped from a train, his surgical valise in hand. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The four doctors appointed to attend the patients rarely showed up. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I’d heard the story of Dad fainting at the doctor’s office when he was a teenager, probably more times than he’d actually fainted. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to be a doctor at first. Then I went to church once and heard this priest speak and I was changed forever,” Father Amadi said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But will she? Will Stef lose her arm? I can’t imagine the doctors will be able to fix it. It’s turning gray, Matt.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Peruvian doctors were following WHO protocol, retreating Christian with standard first-line antibiotics that had failed to stop the TB in the first place. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was mixed up with religion and witch doctors. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a recess and in the afternoon five doctors said that they thought Bigger was “sane, but sullen and contrary.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Amari stared intently at the kindly, silver-haired doctor; she never would have imagined a white man willing to help her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Susana. Don’t you cry for me. The doctors say they can easily remove the banjo on my knee.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I just want to have a quick word with the doctor,” Mom explained, using her sweet neighborly voice as if we’d come to borrow a cup of sugar. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor was patting his hands together with delight. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A carriage with a doctor, and food, and a clean shift. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I faded into time’s dateless night, I would say to the doctor, “The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on . . .” and my soul would escape gracefully. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely both, for he sweeps the doctors aside, leaps to his feet, and moves toward me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“No time for napping. Where are my clothes? Where’s that doctor? Get me out of here.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the doctor had warned that Carmen had to rest her leg. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“The doctors think it’s better if you remember on your own, anyway.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Informed consent focused on what doctors were required to tell their patients; there was little mention of how it might apply to research like Southam’s, in which subjects weren’t the researcher’s patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“That wasn’t a very big one. I had a very big one a while ago. The doctor made me go clear out, didn’t you, doctor?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“When the doctors, Father, and your career are all in Boston, why are we here?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Your teacher suggests we take you to a doctor. She thinks there is something wrong with your eyes.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The doctor walks in just as I’m finishing up answering questions for the police officers. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, exactly. The doctor says she may have rhinestones,” replied the Superintendent. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Instead the doctor made his way over to the knitting lady. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

A white doctor pronounced him fit for the journey. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s essentially what the doctors at the Mater hospital told my parents when they discussed the operation they were planning. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The doctors said they had to get him to McKay-Dee in Ogden as soon as possible, there was no time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Another doctor might have thrown up his hands in bewilderment and admitted defeat. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She accompanied her husband to his doctor’s appointments and retained pharmaceutical dosages in her head. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A month in the Slammer while the doctors hovered over you in space suits drawing samples of your blood, just waiting for you to crash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reports have surfaced that Bell refused to see a doctor. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

At Duke and Harvard, he saw that most students chased money, power, or a sense of personal advancement, but Farmer’s motives for becoming a doctor were different. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I was lucky. My doctors say it just missed my blood vessel here.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Agravaine said, “If I was told by my doctors to be careful, I would not lose my temper over nothing. I should think what was happening, whatever.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her last months my father sent for the new doctor who had settled in the village. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I often feel a shooting pain at the end of my left arm, always as though it was cut from me yesterday. The doctor said I have phantom pain.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

After working with poor women in Boston as a doctor and a preacher, she decided that women’s problems couldn’t be solved by religion or medicine. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In any case, Mrs. Roach suddenly stopped squinting, turned the right way up, and said, “Oh, doctor, dear doctor, I feel I could eat a little lob-worm now.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the doctors came and put a needle in my BACK! Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not know the name of whatever was consuming this tiny girl and the doctors could not explain the nature of the problem. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a doctor in the room, a nurse or two. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not long before his departure, the doctor came and placed his familiar small dry hand on Briony’s forehead, fingered her pulse and was satisfied. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Are you both crazy?” the doctor cried shrilly, backing away in paling confusion. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The doctors said Gram had had a stroke. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Since he had a lifelong distrust of doctors, he tolerated the discomfort until late September 2007, when his pain and inability to urinate became excruciating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She was sick. With cancer. Your mother thinks I should have made her see a doctor sooner. Nana kept saying she had a backache. Her stomach was bloated out like a balloon....” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For this was the point, surely: he would be a better doctor for having read literature. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But before they could talk any more, a doctor banged on a table with a spoon and began to speak. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the crew was made up of able seamen accustomed to the harsh weather of the North Sea, two doctors, a handful of university scientists, officers, a carpenter, and a cook. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Theodora shouted again, blundered against some light piece of furniture, cursed, and then the door beyond was opened and the doctor said, “Good morning.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be dreadful. But the doctor is right. You can stand anything. We’re wonderful animals that way.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just what kind of a doctor are you?” he asked suspiciously. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

How could a colored man be a doctor? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Get me a new doctor who he isn’t already dead himself?’ Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Harry’s mother the doctor is going to change all that Isn’t she Harold? The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor reached into the moonlight and hauled me roughly into the house. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As much as Bobby wanted to play Euwe, the renowned doctor was just as intrigued by the prospect of playing the prodigy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A white doctor finally appeared and asked whether any of us was ill. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least I figured he was the doctor. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Is he a doctor, she wonders, to know so much about babies? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When doctors assured us that Brother Hinton was receiving the best of care, I gave the order and the Muslims slipped away. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m at the part where Mary Grace throws a textbook at an insufferable self-righteous woman at the doctor’s office. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Possibly he could be saved with surgery—if the doctors had time—but at least he could be kept comfortable until he died. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had been known to walk out of doctors’ offices if he was not seen within twenty minutes, but Hayes did not keep him waiting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You have to let the doctor take it out. Hear me? Let the doctor take it out. And breathe.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Outside the room, in the hall, I spoke to the doctor, “Is there anything I can do to-night?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He said they both cried when they saw me cradled in the doctor’s arms. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other option is to listen in on very brief snippets of conversation between each doctor and his or her patients. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

That night Henrietta told her husband, “Day, I need to go back to the doctor tomorrow. He wants to do some tests, give me some medicine.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the Welfare, the courts, and their doctor, gave us the one-two-three punch. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On September 16 a thirty-nine-year-old doctor and recent arrival to the city volunteered. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He lay without waking for days, and all they could do was sit beside him and wait and listen to the words of the doctors. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“My mom is making me go to the doctor,” he said. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then the doctor’s words as I left his office yesterday: Now you go into oblivion. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the doctor said it was his heart, but I believe he was poisoned,” Clay said ominously. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was effusively thankful to the doctors for not insisting he be put under the knife. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the door closed, she heard the doctor’s surprised voice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If big Daddy-O was going to blow his stack over a witch doctor, here’s one cat that wasn’t going to miss it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put him into a home,” the doctor said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As the women biked past the point of exhaustion, doctors measured the oxygen they were taking in and the carbon dioxide they were breathing out. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

S'pose lunatics mold their doctors more than doctors mold their lunatics? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But Lillian always remarked that the doctors had taken a badly burned, homely man, and with all the advances of modern medicine at their disposal, turned him into a grotesquerie. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a very good animal doctor, and though he had never taken care of a penguin before, he knew enough about birds to see at a glance that this one was seriously ill. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day a famous doctor was in the ward. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all the mess, the doctors looked at me and smiled. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Was the receptionist at my doctor's office annoyed because of mom's accent or some other reason? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Housewives, priests, doctors, lawyers, traders, students, and workers took their place in the front lines of the protest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole time, doctors had to pump blood into me to replace what I was losing. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It’s like being in a lunatic asylum and having another patient all dressed up as a doctor come over to you and start taking your pulse or something....It’s just awful. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then the doctors did the delicate work of removing portions of the damaged nerve and reconnecting it. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was broken, most certainly, but he didn’t know what doctors did for a broken nose. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The few overworked doctors of the country did not often get to the ranches for a birth unless the joy turned nightmare and went on for several days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors and nurses offered complicated explanations for why I didn’t recall the attack. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Behind his innocent façade of a doctor without prestige there was hidden a terrorist who with his short-legged boots covered the scars that five years in the stocks had left on his legs. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As soon as the doctor’s back was turned, I moved to Edward’s side. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He raised his head from the sink in the corner of the room; he gripped both sides and he looked up at the doctor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was unprofessional of other doctors to make such attacks. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the doctor said my foot would soon improve. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’d never learned how to talk to people who weren’t like us—people who went to school and visited the doctor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Gloria tended to her visitor the best she could; the doctor came around on his pony. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then, from each conversation, she selected two ten-second clips of the doctor talking, so her slice was a total of forty seconds. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A doctor came into the room and announced: “Tomorrow, right after nightfall, the camp will start on its march. Block by block. The sick can remain in the infirmary. They will not be evacuated.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor is still at the nurse’s station when we pass. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The doctor patted Angela's cheek as though she were a child. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone leaves but the doctors and Mary Lincoln. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the second day, the group discussed the question of “why the profession of teacher is not as much respected as that of lawyer, doctor, or minister.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, When I was born, the doctor must have stamped “National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People” on my forehead; a stamp visible only to my teachers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

No bigger than a fingernail, the doctor had said. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

After she served it to me, I doctored it with two packets of creamer and four of sugar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Eligible? But we have a letter from the doctor. We came all the way here so she could go to Evers.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The doctors probed Lincoln’s bullet wound with their bare, dirty fingers, sticking their pinkies inside Lincoln’s brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modern doctors should be able to spot yellow fever and issue warnings even sooner. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

His ribs were fractured in a haying accident and they never called a doctor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to help you, but there are hundreds sick and dead. I need assistance. Are there any doctors or nurses in camp?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He would like to lock up Rosa and the doctor. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once your doctor says it’s okay, you’ll be able to ride with us!” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Early on, Jim imagined himself becoming a doctor to treat such suffering, and his excelling in science classes quickened his interest. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Since at least the 1800s, black oral history has been filled with tales of “night doctors” who kidnapped black people for research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

All the doctor could find, besides my being extremely thin, was a case of malaria. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joana wanted to be a doctor as much as I wanted to be an artist. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The first doctor he talked with told him his problem was that he smoked too much and sent him home four days later with the recommendation that he cut down on cigarettes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The plates came that afternoon, the doctor had said by God he would have them that afternoon and he did. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor lifted the lower half of her burqa and produced a metallic, cone-shaped instrument. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The doctors had squeezed the top of my nose and gently tried to work the first splint loose. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

‘You should always wear clean underwear to the doctor’s office,’ chided Hygeia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"Here is the doctor’s present address. I can write him a letter and ask him if he remembers an appointment last year with Mrs. de Winter." Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Witch doctors! Murderers! Get out, all of you!” she cried, and swept the image of Obatala off its altar. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not as bad as all that,” the doctor said easily. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A week after Robin asked to take me to the doctor, I again awoke to her shaking me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“My dad’s a doctor. He could look at that, you know.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“We are doctors! We are coming to help!” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she didn’t, the doctors might become suspicious. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor flips some switches, his clipboard clutched to his stomach, and the machines stop breathing for Uriah. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

How she walked into an examining room and a patient asked “Is the doctor coming?” and when she said she was the doctor the patient’s face changed to fired clay. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Persians added their voices, and one of their learned doctors set off for what is now India, to gather and translate the wisdom of the Hindus. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And they could smell the frying of good bacon from the doctor’s house. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The kid gets sick and he has to go get a doctor. ...” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor breaks into a light jog and reaches us in no time. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure what’s going on here, but I’ve got a feeling we owe the doctor an apology. Probably several apologies.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Retired, they spent a lot of time with the Vanderbeekers, and Mama and Papa helped them with grocery shopping and keeping track of their doctors’ appointments and medicines. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If it worked, it might mean doctors could use skin-cell transplants to treat wounds in the field. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Mandel got the letter, he called a meeting with one of the doctors, and accused them of being overly sensitive because of their Jewish ancestry. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

These men and women were college educated and had careers as lawyers, doctors, journalists, businesspeople, and politicians. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But my old professor had made a profound decision, one he began to construct the day he came out of the doctor’s office with a sword hanging over his head. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could have been a famous scientist or doctor or something. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t tell the pastels or the doctors or Carlyle anything anymore. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Another doctor in a mask gave the anaesthetic. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

This is why it was so easy for my mom and dad to become doctors like Avicenna, because your blood is a very complicated river of information inside every part of your body. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But it isn’t quite the same thing, is it? We’re speaking of some of the world’s poorest people. The doctors have a responsibility as Africans,” Alexa said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Anna didn’t know that the doctor had no practicing privileges there, just as he had none at Mercy. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor’s bushy eyebrows flew up in alarm. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the doctor put his hands on my shoulders and started to push me down on the table. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He also mentioned counseling a guard who had put his finger on a sad truth that priests seem to understand better than doctors or social workers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several hours later she called again: A doctor had come and diagnosed pneumonia. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yes, sir, that’s right,” and then a doctor came in to check me over. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the phone and called the doctor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It seems that his only close friends were women who lived in towns around the mountain, yet even they could not recall much about him for the doctors who investigated his death. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theodora said nearby, and she heard the sound of the doctor’s feet running along the veranda. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I also like the cable channels that talk about stuff' like kings and the kingdoms they conquered or doctors and the diseases they cured. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When I spoke with the doctor later, he said there was not a lot he could do for Nana Healey except make her comfortable. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants to be a doctor one day. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Then he sat listening to this moaning until he could not bear it, and he rose and went in to the town to ask where a doctor’s shop was. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As we walked down the street Mom held up the box of patches the doctor had given her. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors and M.P.s moved through the ward assuring everyone that everything was all right. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When the doctor arrives, I remember his foreign voice and nice smell. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hobie’s wife, Helen, was cleaning off the table tops at the back of the restaurant when the doctor entered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor said it would fade in time.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Willum came later, Tam Lin watched everything the doctor did.The bodyguard said nothing, but his presence made Willum’s hands slick with sweat. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor who performs the extractions tells him he’s smoking too much and eating too little. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“The doctor will be here in a moment,” the nurse said, and went out. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The doctor’s cool fingers probed lightly along my skull. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

About recruiting a doctor to live in the town. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When I had my baby, Granny and the doctor told me to print my name on a piece of paper. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You don't like my mother because she’s on to you. She was right. I should have married a doctor, somebody with ideals.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stationed soldiers around Ngaliema Hospital with orders to let no one enter or leave except doctors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with doctors, nurses, and medics, Kelley would sit in a big circle out in the sand, get stoned, and swap stories. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The doctors prevailed on that point and also insisted that he take a regimen of antibiotics. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After we finally received our visas, we were taken to be examined by doctors. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a terrible fever running through the city, the learned doctors all readily agreed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Decca mentioned the doctor, but Mom almost never checks the home phone. I would have picked up the messages if there were any.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There's no sign of the doctor, but we keep looking over our shoulders as if she might just pop up. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mantell was an excellent doctor and equally gifted bone hunter, but he was unable to support both his talents. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Celina Aunty spoke to a doctor on the phone and waited with me until she came. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The demon boy Miss Whitlaw had sent out came back without a doctor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors said it was a miracle she survived at all, given her age, but that she was in incredible health for a person in her mid-eighties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Will they believe you over their white doctors?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Not healthy, not at all a healthy work for a man,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor in Welch said it would likely remain that way for the rest of his life. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor isn’t sure what it was. Kevin is much better now, though.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You know that none of us wrote it,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a handsome house,” the doctor said stanchly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

"We've got a runner down! Is there a doctor or a paramedic anywhere around here? This man needs help!" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As he talks, the doctor’s hands skim over my face, my arms, my head. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors had taped Theresa’s eyes closed, lightly; also they had taped her arms to splints, wrapped her hands around balls of gauze. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mind-set had to change, he argued to me, and doctors were the only advocates the poor had. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I tried to look the doctor in the eye, to make him see me, like if he knew I was a hurt animal and not a practice dummy or something, he’d be nice to me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The waiting room is set up like a doctor’s office, only the chairs are plain molded plastic, and instead of carpeting there’s chipped linoleum. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The son of a country doctor, Wilkins had studied physics at Cambridge in the 1930s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

You have to give the doctors at least five months’ lead time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s worse if you try not to show it,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I warned you, daughter. This scoundrel Hades is no good. You could’ve married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but noooo. You had to eat the pomegranate.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I had a little bump on my face and she made me see this fancy doctor. Now I gotta wear this dumb hat all the time. It makes me look like a rooster.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alarmed, William went to two local doctors, who found no sign of any problem. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Life would be easier if I were passionate about wanting to be a doctor. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was late evening, his mother did not like the young doctor who was on call at the medical center in the evenings, and so she drove to Dr. Achufusi’s house. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The doctor says Uriah’s not going to wake up. Something about... no brain waves.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They did their best, but the man died, just like the doctor said he would. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Breathing heavily, red-faced, she shook her finger at the doctor. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She took me to a small room and handed my papers to the doctor, who glanced at them and asked me to strip to my shorts. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Alex had gotten a rug burn so serious his mom had to take him to the doctor the next day. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

If he was such a good doctor, then why did she die? Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

How could I get Grandfather to a doctor? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thwaites’s father, who was a doctor, had said that they were made from rats’ blood. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For God’s sake be careful,” the doctor said as Luke moved steadily on. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After all, doctors had been drawing blood for centuries for diagnostic testing, and aside from the pain of a needle stick, there seemed to be no risk. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

These old women know better than any doctor how to cure things like this. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Let's get her out of here! Mark, we have to take her to a doctor!" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They would have seen families just like their own: sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, craftsmen, and tailors, individuals from all walks of life. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Cooke got the cage which he knew the doctor always called for at that hour and brought it forward. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This doctor is a brain surgeon and doesn’t work with flu.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of well-known doctors had abandoned their patients and scampered to safer air; ten others had died, while still more were ill and could not receive patients. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It’s how they were treated, on a personal level, by their doctor. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There were doctors to attend to his health. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What the doctor smelled was my mother’s pad that she hadn’t had time to change. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor came running, grabbing at the officer. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

After Mama burned him, Papi said a captain in the merchant marines took pity on him and doctored his papers so they’d say he was injured during an explosion on board. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t intend to give us a poor table, at any rate,” the doctor said, peering into the warming oven. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know whether to believe the doctor or not,” the father said. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Did you give the doctor my form?” he asked her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This was a time when “benevolent deception” was a common practice — doctors often withheld even the most fundamental information from their patients, sometimes not giving them any diagnosis at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was even more afraid than Amanda, but to make her think this was all routine, he adopted the relaxed, pompous air he had seen doctors use. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether Blanche died as a result of treatments designed to cure an illness that would eventually become known as schizophrenia or from suicide or another cause altogether was known only to her doctors and family. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The doctors took trips to France, the United States, Scotland, and Mexico to study new techniques that were being developed—especially those of French surgeon Paul Tessier, whose pioneering work was fundamental. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She is probably worried about Shauna, who is still with the Erudite doctor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps we can give you the name of another doctor,” said this woman, who was her sister-in-law. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the real word for it, the one that doctors use.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, I’m a model patient, my lethargy taken for restraint, obedience to the doctors’ orders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“No leave alone with witch doctor. Maybe he cut her into steaks for dinner.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a woman’s voice came through the speaker to remind Grandma of her doctor’s appointment the following day. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’m sure the doctors wanted to keep him in the hospital, but we didn’t have insurance, and the bill was already so large that Shawn would be making payments a decade later. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Luke?” said the doctor, but Luke was already inside. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

We interpret it as a cause-and-effect sequence: she saw the doctor, and that made her depressed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her voice is more like doctor than friend. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was even a brand of harsh satire in my parents’ quest itself, because it typified the American belief that everything can be solved by doctors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Good. I appreciate it very much. You understand, doctor, I couldn’t stay in bed six months.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“No. But if they needed the doctor, I’d have been sent.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It was all very quiet,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can’t stop thinking what I know. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let him tread on your toes,” the doctor said, and laughed. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors had examined him, pronounced the rare disease incurable, and told him he had anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to live. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Something had to be wrong with me, but one really good advantage about being dirt-poor is that you can’t afford to go to the doctor and get bad news. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor said I was the fourth person she’d seen that night. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a doctor,” he said, and continued on. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It’s true what they say about doctors’ handwriting, but I’ve told you that before.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All but one of the Haitian doctors who worked in Cange had their homes in Port-au-Prince or abroad. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Before the yellow fever epidemic, even the doctors who disagreed with Rush on medical matters would have defended him against Cobbett’s irrational assaults. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The doctor approaches again and peers more closely at the wound. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no new messages to pass from Curzon’s companions to Captain Morse, and the doctor secured by the rich Bridgebane family had delivered potions and bleedings to all, as promised. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My doctor says not to worry about it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In August’s case, the doctors were able to identify one of the “single nucleotide deletion mutations” that made war on his face. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The good-looking doctor is trying to get my attention. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whoa there.’’The doctor, who obviously had experience with horses, raised his open hands as though preparing to catch me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s what the doctor warns us of. There is no medicine that can cure him.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they left, the doctor gave them some information on ALS, little pamphlets, as if they were opening a bank account. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angel kept her head down, wouldn't look at any doctor or nurse who passed by, and refused to speak. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my turn to see the doctor and I think that had me all over excited. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stern men walked quickly to the gulch and across the foot bridge and they hammered on the door of the doctor who had studied in France. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brandon’s doctor suspected that he had a concussion, though she wasn’t completely sure. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The woman was the youngest doctor I’d ever seen in Thurmond—though admittedly I could count my trips to the Infirmary on one hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry. By the time he got here, he was gone,” the doctor said. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he was like Doc. A magic man. A witch doctor.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was another cancer doctor of some kind. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’d end up in a neighborhood to the south, an area known as Pill Hill due to an apparently large number of African American doctors living there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, when nothing could be found, one doctor ordered a muscle biopsy, taking a small piece out of Morrie’s calf. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, the doctor had his way about the holiday, but not about the cigars. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Good God. I think I’d better have a doctor out to look at you.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The doctor passes by Kemmerich’s bed without once looking at him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would he finally go back to school to become a doctor? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The doctor excused himself from the room, and Theo and Edith waited to see what would happen in tense, emotional silence. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As in: The doctor sees me Googling the symptoms — coughing, sweating, vomiting, nosebleeds — and he says, You know we cant be sure what causes a myocardial infarction. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“I need a medical doctor. Ulysses might have a concussion.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

One has a young scruffy blond beard that I would never expect to see on a doctor—his name is Dr. Kepler. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When the doctor smacked my bottom did I laugh instead of cry? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is well known that the king’s doctors have warned him that bathing causes the plague, and he has taken this advice to heart. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The nearest doctor was 150 miles away, which would take three days and three nights to reach. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I will not put a name to what has no name,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The dog doctor thought I was talking about my car. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Normally, she would have taken control of a situation like this, directing the care of Lola, reassuring her mother, listening to the doctor’s advice, consulting with Leon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Delia is a female doctor and we have plenty of reason to see her.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need a doctor. I just need a needle and thread. Patch me up like a sail, I’m good as new. ” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We reached Clarksdale and hired a taxi to the doctor’s office. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His white counts were low, but the doctor said that was probably just a response to the infection. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just like now that you are a medical doctor, you mind less that you have no husband, right?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

While doctors cleaned and stitched his leg and tried to bring down the swelling in his nose, Gregor spilled out everything that had happened since they had parted. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Henrietta awoke terrified, disoriented, wanting to know where she was and what the doctors had been doing to her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor looks at my mom, then leaves. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine the new face the doctors would give me, thinking about what the operation could mean for my future. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The doctor turned to the other doctors with amazement. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As April was getting ready to go, she said, “Well, good-bye, and thanks again, Profes—I mean Dr. Huddleston. My grandmother says your name is Dr. Julian Huddleston. Are you really a doctor?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well, you don’t want the doctor who can sign you out of the psychiatric hospital getting suspicious.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I used to want to become a doctor, but after everything we had been through, I began to think that becoming a political leader might be a better choice. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He could not go by chopper because of the blizzard, so the doctors sent him in an ambulance. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The doctor stuck a crooked- looking scissors inside my wound and fished for the bullet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her smile fades and is replaced by her more serious doctor’s face. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In those days people didn’t linger and fool around like people do now, with tubes hanging out their mouths and making doctors rich and all this. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there watching Uncle Jack, while Daddy talked with the doctor. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The stalemate over a doctor’s visit continued through January and into February that year. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On May 31,1910, in the wheat and cattle country of Cardston, Alberta, Rose was midway through her labor with George when her husband interrupted the doctor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong. He broke off coughing again. I stared in horror, first at Grandfather, then at the doctor. “You must help him,” I cried. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sound like one of those posters in the doctor’s office.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve been lucky enough now in my life to meet all sorts of extraordinary and accomplished people—world leaders, inventors, musicians, astronauts, athletes, professors, entrepreneurs, artists and writers, pioneering doctors and researchers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor covered Roosevelt with a blanket and made him drink some quinine. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She was in a basket in the doctor’s office where he could keep an eye on her. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor held the detector over Garfield's back, moving it downward from the wound along the spine. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And now, the good doctor and his wife had invited the whole family out to an expensive restaurant in the city as a treat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

No civilian except only the Boston doctors, who had offered their services, were allowed close to the wharf. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watch the doctor finish his statement, and then Vancouver’s mayor speaks. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the doctor changes his bandages I give Captain Smith the handle of a wooden spoon to bite on so that he can endure the pain. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s probably better to leave the elevators available to the nurses and doctors and patients at this time of night anyway. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Of the three revolutionary doctors, only Church and Warren remained. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jim was concerned that one of Carabayllo’s major health problems might be TB, but Peruvian doctors insisted that the illness was well under control. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Only weeks after a previous entry declared her healthy, one of the doctors wrote, “The patient looks chronically ill. She is obviously in pain.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor who smiled down at me was young and sandy- haired. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The doctor bent over and looked at her head. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Amá said the doctors and nurses had never seen anything like it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I held my mother’s hand as we walked to the doctor’s house. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he examined her on Tuesday evening, April 15, the doctor felt certain that Annie was dying. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Dr. Xuma, he was a doctor, and one of the wealthiest black men in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? My head doctor says I’m not supposed to censor my thoughts. It’s part of my therapy,” replies Johanna. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Sissy was going to have a Jewish doctor! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home he watches MTV with Sonia as she doctors her jeans, cutting inches off the bottoms and inserting zippers at the newly narrowed ankles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amidst the recriminations and finger-pointing from the doctors, scientists, and prison officials, one might have expected the demise of electrocution technology. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if 1 can ask the doctor to do a blood test or something so that I can provide her with proof of my sobriety. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they both need to know where you are, for health insurance reasons and because they’re your doctors and they care about you and this is going to be very important to them.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And that mission doctor at Kikongo must have found Father a sight to behold: a wild-haired preacher with a snake in his belly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How would I complete my studies and become a doctor, which was my greatest hope at the time? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It had grown now, and on the outskirts the hurrying newcomers were being softly informed how the baby had been stung by a scorpion, how the father and mother were taking it to the doctor. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor didn’t look at me, and barely changed his tone of voice. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It usually takes a woman five or six months to get pregnant,” the doctor went on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then she decided to use the money for becoming a doctor. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan would tarof and say, “Please, share some of my wife’s tea,” but the doctor would refuse, not even with a long, drawn-out compliment. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Finally a new doctor came in with two nurses and they lifted Catherine onto a wheeled stretcher and we started down the hall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The doctors at the hospital examined Monet, and could not come up with any explanation for what had happened to his eyes or his face or his mind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors resorted to giving him nourishment with enemas several times a day. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But doctors worried about the wound on her leg. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

The doctor drilled a hole in Nikki’s skull and put in a small tube—no thicker than a strand of spaghetti—to drain excess fluid from her brain to lower the pressure. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke grinned knowingly at Eleanor, and then turned as the doctor opened the door. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor refused to take care of the baby. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The worst part is, instead of being with her parents or in a hospital surrounded by doctors and nurses who can help her, she's having a seizure on a concrete sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A freckled, red-haired woman with gold nose-glasses appeared; then a man with a circular mirror attached to his forehead—a doctor. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opens the door and lets Karin and Ilse go out first, and then I shuffle around while holding on to Helena’s hand so that the smoking doctor leaves next. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I remember my lungs felt full of something, long after the doctors judged them clear. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Another C.D.C. doctor who worked on the unknown virus was Frederick A. Murphy, a virologist who had helped to identify Marburg virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lizabeth keep talking ’bout the doctors give her pills and sometime they help for a while, then they stop working. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Papi had not been able to get an American doctor's license—some hitch about his foreign education—and the money was running out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Later the doctors would speculate that when Dad, Luke and Benjamin had wrestled Shawn to the ground—and he’d sustained a concussion—he was already in critical condition. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To Lourdes, he looked solemn, like a doctor preparing for surgery. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her doctors tried in vain to ease her suffering. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“While we are waiting,” he said in his fake doctor voice, “I think we should talk about something important.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the doctor had gone we looked at one another, hardly daring to believe that our secret would be kept. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents weren’t initially sure what to do with me, and my doctors didn’t even know if I’d live very long. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As a child, when I looked at it, sometimes I imagined a tall doctor in a white coat banging on a sheet of metal with a hammer. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“How much money did you pay the doctor and the hospital when I was born?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Various doctors came down infrequently, pulling a small white partition around the bed to offer my grandmother some limited privacy. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Normally this would thrill me, to be alone with this handsome doctor paying attention to me, but all I want to do is lie down on the bed and slip into sleep. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Hyatt, a Navy doctor working with the National Cancer Institute, had experienced this phenomenon firsthand. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After that the doctor took Haupt's pulse and blood pressure, which was high. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone applauded, and the doctors thanked El Patron. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the hospital for over a month and has splinters of glass in his spine that the doctors can’t remove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When your mother got sick, doctors just did what they wanted and patients didn’t ask. But nowadays patients want to know what’s going on.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She looked so sweet and peaceful, all curled up, and I wanted to hold her, but the doctor said that was not a good idea. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

"He said he would take me to a doctor for an examination," Haupt said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Where, I want to ask, is the doctor who determines if I am losing my mind? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Back in the crowd, I heard another man say, “You mean that Lathman fellow, who owns those black and tan hounds, is a doctor?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think I ought to drink another beer? The doctor said I was rather narrow in the hips and it’s all for the best if we keep young Catherine small.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor usually gave her suckers, which made Sam and me jealous. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor in Boston had invented a new drug to treat leukemia. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Volker,” I asked quietly, trying to be ridiculously calm like when doctors talk to insane people in the movies. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The doctors warned Mom and Dad I might have to be put on kidney dialysis. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And, holding Theodora, Eleanor looked up at Luke and the doctor, and felt the room rock madly, and time, as she had always known time, stop. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

That finished, the doctor moved to tying the other woman’s feet together. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As before, the doctor hesitated for a moment. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“You have a clue then?” demanded the little doctor eagerly. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors call my condition acquired savant syndrome. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to push my way through and shout at the pet doctor and yank on his twitchy mustache. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In Amarillo the doctor I summoned turned out to be a young man. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull glanced up and answered the doctor’s reflection in the mirror. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors who don’t are the ones who get sued.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They did not believe doctors could heal—for them, none ever had done so. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The house wants me to stay,” she told the doctor, and he stared at her. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be a doctor,’ you say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor looked past his aged patient and saw himself sitting in a restaurant in Paris and a waiter was just opening a bottle of wine. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor says he can do nothing. She has poisoned herself.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells him run to O’Connor the chemist around the corner to ring up an ambulance or a doctor or something for Mikey. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“How do I know? I’m not a doctor.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be no more hospitals, doctors, pills, or pain. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of Sam’s regulars was a doctor by the name of Bertram, a recent hospital hire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You sendin’ healing stuff even though his father is a doctor?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In Anna’s case, the doctors had not reported any indications of this, and from all the descriptions of the crime scene there had been no trail of blood from the car down to the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After the examination, the doctor asked me if I would like some tea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made appointments with doctors and social workers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The doctor reassured her that he himself was a refugee and understood the plight of parents during war. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, when I crawled into my sleeping bag, the doctors were still gingerly thawing Beck’s frozen limbs in a pot of lukewarm water, working by the glow of their headlamps. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re so ugly, when you were born the doctor smacked your face instead of your butt.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Do you know, that afternoon she called to transfer her file to another doctor’s office! Can you imagine?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I reminded her that a doctor’s confidence was sacred, but that you were grievously anxious about her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Run back to the Merciless Mart and get a doctor.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Self consciously, with his authoritative arms breaking the way, we pushed through the still gathering crowd, passing a hurried doctor, case in hand, who had been sent for in wild hope half an hour ago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

When she saw that it had healed quickly, Mamá suggested I might become a doctor someday. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The conversation between the captain and the doctor went in circles. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This doctor also wore a mask tied around his face. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Whenever Mother sought help, neither nurses nor doctors would take her seriously enough to examine me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Germs were question marks even in the minds of many doctors. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Estella had turned her face to the wall while the doctor explained how to use the formula, but Naomi had listened. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

So another doctor will poke and prod and then send me to someone else. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I unlocked the door and we sat waiting, whispering, vowing secrecy, wondering what the reaction of the doctors would be. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still crouching low and hidden from little Ellis’s view by the end of the bed, the doctor unfolded the towel and spread it over the palm of his left hand. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the ultrasound she had asked the doctor not to tell her the sex of their child, and Shukumar had agreed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"His left arm was a mess, but the doctor says it looks worse than it is." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not at all,” the doctor said, still grave. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t. But what’s the idea of a hospital without a doctor?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

For the second photo Arthur sticks out his tongue and says “Aaaaaah” like a doctor is inspecting his mouth. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

"They're meeting with some doctors now. And I told them I needed some space anyway—to do, you know, typical genius hobbies." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She got so much blood that one doctor wrote a note in her record stopping all transfusions “until her deficit with the blood bank was made up.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You must not take all the credit to yourself, doctor. Lucy’s state this morning is due in part to me.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The city would be the hot zone, and the floating ship would be the gray area, the place of refuge for the doctors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors and scientists were trying to fight back, but unless we found a way to stop Nergal, the city would be his very soon. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The asthma was under control, but the doctor alerted me to something else—Malia’s body mass index, a measure of health that factors together height, weight, and age, was beginning to creep up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“He studied with a famous doctor in Maputo. The doctor told him to kill a close relative so he could force the spirit to serve him.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kaitlin needs a doctor. We have to find a way to build a stretcher or something that can lower her to the ground.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, you might say I’m a specialist,” said the doctor. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now the attacks on Bliss and the other doctors grew louder. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe she wants to hear that I am going to be a doctor like Chantal. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My mom finally took me to a doctor, who thought it was scoliosis. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a mind reader,” the doctor said at last. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You sound like a doctor already,” I say. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I should like to be a doctor poet, I think, if I happen to survive to adulthood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon it was apparent that the baby had no intention of waiting for a doctor or Mr. Derby or anyone else. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while he’s doing this, which is humiliating, four more doctors enter the room, and he starts talking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Actually she said, “This doctor cuts brains,” a child making up the words as she went along. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the exact moment the doctor pulled the needle through the skin, dragged the line behind it, poked it into the skin on the other side of the wound and pulled again. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The doctor said they would have to cut out her ovary right away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

What if the new doctor thinks I look stupid? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his chamber the doctor sat up in his high bed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally got to the hospital they were asking me all sorts of questions—“How old was your mother?” and “Who was her doctor?” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most doctors had predicted the fever would end when the cold weather returned. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“We will get you some help. Just be strong, young man,” the sergeant doctor said gently, sitting by my bed and examining my leg. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Fort Hare doctor examined my heel and said he would need to operate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes blazed bright in her skull and followed me as I moved around the room, and when the doctor and Madam talked, she listened in right close. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hand him my paper from the doctor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I have to speak choppy English to talk to a doctor but he keeps asking who I am and when I’ll come see her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hepatitis A is rarely fatal, but Farmer’s case was so severe that Jim and other doctors worried he might need a liver transplant. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Beneath the burqa, the doctor shook her head curtly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Nice to meet you," Uncle Tony said, immediately shaking the doctor's hand. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, the doctor finally came out of the emergency room to give us an update. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not like for a doctor, but inside my chest it feels empty, like getting punched and a heartburn at the same time. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was making the hospital visit at Bayona’s request, as a favor to a Peruvian TB doctor whose daughter was sick. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Etta's job was gone, and that meant eight dollars less a week besides the doctor's bill. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They searched through the dresser and found a dollar or two and sent for a doctor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since people in the neighborhood were too poor to go to a doctor, they turned to Maeve. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Those who did know about it often thought of it as “the Nazi code,” something that applied to barbarians and dictators, not to American doctors. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then came the sound of the doctor’s voice. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The doctor himself is not yet certain of the number. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s all. And it’s down near the other end of the hall. Luke and the doctor are probably there already, to see what is going on.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor smiled happily; he had clearly been hoping for some such question. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers came into the house and told the sergeant doctor that the lieutenant had sent them to help take me back to our former base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My sudden shaking derails my mom’s questioning and sends her into doctor mode. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor had no intention of bringing me back to her, Edie.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Mmhmm. And she told the doctor she didn’t want treatment. Wanted to ‘let it run its course.’” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The doctor told her she needed to avoid stress completely, so we decided she should stop coming on research trips with me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Although Garfield remained upbeat with his family, his doctors were discouraged. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He doctored the books whenever we crossed a checkpoint, to make it seem he was getting more sleep than he was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Learning was for doctors, lawyers, and teachers, a class set off and not considered related to other people. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seanie and Joey stayed there with me while the doctor stitched me up, but he wouldn’t let them stand too close when he was doing the actual sewing part. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, those doctors are so dumb. They ask all these questions, they believe anything I tell them, they write it all down.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am prone to let the doctors’ prophecy rest and keep my thoughts to myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Finally the doctor said he would give me four days. So I can tell his family.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His doctors’ daily medical bulletins were often intentionally misleading. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You doctors are all alike, scaring us to earn more business. My family will stay right where they are, thank you,” the lawyer replied. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, the doctors released a written summary of the results to the press. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Three doctors work in white coats with sleeves rolled up. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ten days after he fell sick, the doctors, noticed a change for the better. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see how simple it is,” the doctor said to Milo, who didn’t see at all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Having apparently failed with witch doctors, she began exploring other options. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she sent away for voodoo dolls and carefully followed the instructions some witch doctor in the West Indies wrote about how to relieve Natalie’s condition. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor took her by the arm and, with Luke beside her, led her to her car and opened the door for her. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Ernestine’s tonsils were recessed and bigger than the doctor had expected. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never saw Delphine alive again after the day she left our house to go see the doctor. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Another day,” the doctor said, and in spite of his appearance his voice was wan. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to the doctor who was standing between them with a line between his brows, and his first polite smile frozen on his lips. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Without those keys he would have floated away at the doctor’s first word: “Yes?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nervous talk was understandable; for most, this was their first visit with a doctor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The walls of the hospital room seemed to be made of stone, the beard on the nurse’s or doctor’s or whoever’s face dense and shaggy as moss. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought of the Belgian doctor who’d set Ruth May’s arm, and I decided to believe Ruth May herself was somehow involved in this gift. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he explain that what he wanted from his partner was companionship, not more probing, pricking doctors with their bad news that made his mother cry? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And anyway Estella never woke up at night, not now that the doctor had put her on sleeping pills to help her rest. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could not bring you, but I have no problem telling you what I saw—the entire diaspora around me—hustlers, lawyers, Kappas, busters, doctors, barbers, Deltas, drunkards, geeks, and nerds. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A younger version of the doctor, less crude, indeed polished. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought this an odd attitude for a doctor to have and perhaps he should study to be a psychiatrist instead, but of course I never came right out and said so. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“We need doctors, we need lawyers, we need teachers. I want you to be a doctor so you can take care of me.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"I'll be there, and the rest of the doctors you know, and some visitors, and Doctor Vining, the head of all the doctors, will ask you a few questions, and then you can go." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I see nothing against it,” said the strange doctor, peering at a chart. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had evidence from a fourth doctor to whom Myers confided that he was being pressured to give false testimony against Walter McMillian. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He brought in a ton of old magazines: Time, Sports Illustrated, People, Good Housekeeping...the ones I always see in the doctor’s office waiting room, the kind grown-ups look at with very serious expressions. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was, he thought, just what the doctor ordered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my imagination the doctor used the same corrugated sheets of tin that Dad used to roof hay sheds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This time, however, he was judged too frail for doctors to apply electric currents to his brain. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Settle. It’s not like I’m doing anything illegal. Just following doctor’s orders.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The doctor arranged for the camaradas to carry Roosevelt on his cot. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Now that you’re older, the doctors have an opportunity to work out what you might look like as an adult,” she continued. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I will not sign a card for someone who is not ill. To do so would be treason against the Führer. Leave my office. And next time, go to another doctor.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about the young doctor gave her a feeling of contentment she had not experienced in a long while. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I barely hear the doctor give my parents my at-home care instructions—a sling, a prescription, and physical therapy starting next week. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When the bleeding was over, Madam saw the doctor to the door. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Trepid rushed to Joey and breathed into his mouth and pounded on his chest while Mrs. Trepid phoned the doctor. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer quickly packed his doctor’s bag and hiked with her across the Péligre Dam to a hut on the other side of the reservoir. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And there are nurses walking by and doctors with their coats. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Down below, under the light, the doctor was sewing up the great long, forcep-spread, thick- edged, wound. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Your son must stay in bed. There should be no physical exertion at all,” the doctor told my mother. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the way he held his side, I could tell he was in pain, but I didn’t think I’d be able to convince him to see a doctor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“In a way, more dependent on you than the doctor.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Not like a medical doctor, but an astrophysicist—a scientist who studies the planets, stars, and other objects in space and how they work. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But he begged me to let a doctor examine my foot, promising me a giant piece of sesame candy if I did. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He must have seen the media coverage of my big operation when I was four and known that the doctors had made me a nose out of a toe. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Additional conversations with my doctor helped me understand that my behavior had become harmful to me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed genuinely mystified, as if she hadn't terrorized them for days into thinking of this outing as equivalent to going to the doctor for their booster shots. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was a public service announcement on advising women to see their doctors and take care of themselves while they were pregnant. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Baker asked her to remove them for class, she said that her doctor had asked her to keep them on. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Teaching the surgery to local doctors and offering its gift to the colored population was part of the reason he was hired. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The doctors said she’d died from leukemia, but Mom thought it was radioactive poisoning. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She's home today. Her son is very sick. Actually, she had to take him to the doctor.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I trained him as my assistant in the business of concocting and dispensing noise,” finished the doctor, mopping his brow with a handkerchief. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lee watched him, holding his breath the way a doctor watches for the reaction to a hypodermic. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She called her member of parliament and then her local doctor. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Some doctors thought the heart and blood-supply system would become confused by the lack of gravity and would not function properly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of fleeing the farm immediately, they waited for the doctor’s return. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence and Zakariyya thought Michael Gold must have been related to George Gey or some other doctor at Hopkins—how else could he have gotten their mother’s records? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A day before we were to leave for Alexandra my father terrified me by saying: “What would you do if I were to leave you here and let that witch doctor raise you?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it a shame military doctors couldn’t be as good as military sunglasses,” Lillian said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ones who did, who accepted her invitations to tea and envied the doctor’s big dark house of twelve rooms and the green sedan, called him “peculiar.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In most cases there was nothing for the doctor to do at that point but complain about the muddy roads and receive his payment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The doctors told Dad to buy a Blubber-O-Meter 3000, a bathroom scale with a giant dial that was easy to read. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

But quickly she reminds herself that he is not technically in the hospital, that if this were any other day but Sunday he’d be at a doctor’s office having an ordinary checkup. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor’s wife, his beautiful wife, was there, smiling worriedly from behind a chair, the only one pulled away from a long wooden table that ran the length of the room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Prisoners followed behind the doctor, removing the dead bodies, and another ill man would immediately take the newly vacated cot. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that, we were off to the doctor I could talk to, even though anyone who knew me should have known that I wasn’t going to say anything at all. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In French, physicien had never been a term used for doctors, so the word was conveniently available to mean a natural scientist, and then to evolve to become the French equivalent for ‘physicist’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Not completely. I won’t have to touch her head, just her digestive tract,” the doctor explained. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other doctors claimed that Lister's method made no difference in wound healing. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I'm a doctor; I took an oath to save lives, not take them. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the men had been doctors, lawyers, teachers, Civil Service workers; there were several cooks, a preacher, a politician, and an artist. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor I could talk to was different than I expected. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I can tell you one thing,” the doctor said, “if it was the younger sister sneaking around this house at night, she had nerves of iron. It watches,” he added suddenly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

From his volunteer work at a youth basketball league here in Dearborn to his goal of becoming a doctor and bringing quality medical care to poor neighborhoods, Kamal embodied the very best of America. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But the last thing Fig needed was an agitated doctor. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Alex stayed right by Rex’s side through the whole exam, holding him while the vet irrigated the wound and stroking his paw when the doctor injected the cut with anesthetic. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, when the weather is good they go backpacking all the time — even the doctor. They’re all real outdoorsy,” she told me quietly, examining her shoes, too. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I do worry, even if your doctor tells me not to.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why I have it. That’s why I’m going to all these doctors.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Awaiting Kemmler in the chamber were twenty-six witnesses, including six doctors, the district attorney who had prosecuted him, and many journalists; they were arrayed in a semicircle around the electric chair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She has heart failure every time a wave knocks her down. What she doesn’t lose in the casinos she spends on the house doctor at the Caribe Hilton.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But where does the hatbox come in?” asked the doctor, still puzzled. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors were very nice and seemed very capable. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Seeing the boy’s multiple shrapnel wounds, the doctor leaned over him and said, “You dummy! Look at what this has gotten you!” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I walked into a doctor’s waiting room, boring and bland, and spoke to a middle-aged receptionist, who took my details without really looking at me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delight in your love and the devil take doctor dear. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not from what happened last night,” the doctor said. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I want to show them to the doctor when I make my report.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In my frenzy, I somehow believed, I don’t know why I believed it, that only a witch doctor could help me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. It was very curious. He complained that he felt as if there were long pieces of straw stuck in his throat. When I told the doctor he was able to prescribe the proper medication.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jaime agreed to see them in the clinic of the Misericordia District, where he was taking his training as a doctor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the three Reich doctors reached their decision, the parents were told that their son or daughter was going to be placed in a special hospital. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

You know a lot about the brain and medicines and tests and hospitals, and you could probably be a really good doctor if people with seizures are allowed to be doctors. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“How do you know? Are you a doctor?” one of the African doctors asked her. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Reyburn left Garfield's side, along with the other Washington doctors, he felt that there was little he or anyone else could do. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bliss and the other doctors ignored their warnings. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The doctor concluded that she was paranoid, but noted, as Hoover put it, that she “perceives items which would escape the observation of the average individual.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And I say, Yessuh, and he say, Well, you better tell em he your high yellow cause that colored doctor won’t operate on a white boy in a Negro hospital. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me Helen was buried alive,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a doctor, I think, probably for one of those overseas organizations. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor turned back and reentered the house with the frenzied butler. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Yossarian had no idea who he was and just took it for granted that he was either another doctor or another madman. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You can,” Papa told Amil in his calm doctor voice, which I had never heard him use on Amil and held out his hand for him. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“A doctor will be with you shortly,” she says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Carp floated belly up onto the beach, and the doctors at Mercy knew, but did not announce, that ear infections were a certainty for those who swam in those waters. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor came right before supper and gave Lady Seymour a potion that would make the night pass quickly for her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mellon family had financed a hospital called Hospital Albert Schweitzer, named for the famous German theologian and physician who had worked as a doctor in West Africa. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The doctors had told him to lay off the caffeine, but he figured they’d make an exception for today. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

While the authorities went to round up Morrison, they also made sure that a doctor went to check on Mollie Burkhart. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

While my parents started to figure out how I might fit into the world as I was, doctors at the Mater Children’s Hospital were thinking about how they could help me fit in better. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When I go to the doctor for my checkups I always say my mother was HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In those days a doctor’s office could indeed be a fearsome place. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure I shouldn’t go to a doctor?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor was persuaded that she couldn’t possibly be a midwife. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe he doesn’t want to be a doctor. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like a dry leaf clutched to the bodyguard s chest as Tam Lin hurried out with the doctors in his wake. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the doctors put a mask over her face and I looked through the door and saw the bright small amphitheatre of the operating room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After church, Booth rode home with the doctor and spent the night at his farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw me splayed out on the floor and the mess in the tub, she ran for the phone and called the team doctor. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But the fact was, they had never had us examined by a doctor and there was no talk of doing so. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nurses, doctors, patients, orderlies, and visitors went in and out of the wards. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I doubted the doctor earned that much in a year. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled as he talked, like he enjoyed being a doctor. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They bother me sometimes. The doctor says it’s nervous tension.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He remembered hearing a doctor say, “I love to deliver a baby, because if I do my work well, there’s joy at the end of it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor was called—I was afterwards told—and he ordered that I be kept abed, that I be kept quiet, that my very life depended upon it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another operation had been advised by the doctor and there was hope for recovery. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, if I was going to be a doctor, my future was riding on it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The doctors and my dad had described me to her, but she still hadn’t seen me with her own eyes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

My parents took me to see a “feelings” doctor, which I only later realized was a child psychologist. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I jump up, stumble outside and demand: 'Where is the doctor? All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, he was a doctor and the women were nurses; it was coming clear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your sister is undernourished and exhausted,” the doctor said. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Like should stick to like. You don’t see Jews calling in Christian doctors,” said Evy, thinking she had made a telling point. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rise and fall—this was the doctor’s business, and it was literatures too. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe they just believed what the doctor told them. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Two doctors examined Mr. Evans and declared that he was not dead. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As a medical doctor, Regina knew more about the risks than he did, but Bobby was afraid of a foreign object being implanted in his mother’s body and what it might do to her. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor in white was in the room, at the foot of my bed. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the day, the doctors had been reluctant to probe the wound again to learn the bullet's path. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

All this history seems both plausible and creditable, good reading for doctors, but there is always that other leech, the worm. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she said this, I could see the doctor putting on his mackintosh and hat in the hall and so went to him, the teapot still in my hand. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Granny, Uncle Piet and Aunt Bushy were informed and promised to help me become the family’s first doctor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite my mom trying to hammer me flat in the car, I still had a pretty good buzz on, like the good doctor had promised. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The results of my scan have come through and I went to see my doctor about them yesterday morning. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Words he’d overheard from the doctor came back to him: Clones go to pieces when they get older. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke passed her the marmalade, Theodora smiled at her over Arthur’s head, the doctor bade her good morning. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, doctors and scientists were aware of electricity’s power to kill. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, doctors based their medical thinking on the 2,500-year-old Greek humoral theory. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“The doctors want me to go up to Memphis for... shock treatment...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Oh, doctor, I thought drowsily, did you ever wade in a brook before breakfast? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers began forecasting great things for me: some said I would make a good teacher, others maintained that I had the brains to become a doctor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother scowled at the doctor as if he were one of her ex sons-in-law. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The murder plots depended upon doctors who falsified death certificates and upon undertakers who quickly and quietly buried bodies. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Being the doctor, of course, she would know all about tropical diseases and wouldn’t care for Leah sounding like the expert. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman, a doctor studying at Tulane, had been feeling the same way, like an exile in her own country, and they laughed at how delirious they were to see each other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I waited till I heard the voices of all the doctors die away. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I hadn’t noticed a smell,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A name Gran used for a witch doctor. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

To stay, both of us, in the infirmary, where, thanks to my doctor, he could enter as either a patient or a medic. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many professional men, particularly doctors like F. Earl McLendon, have developed residential areas as their contribution to the cause. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor said at some point I might outgrow them.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“My aunt is a doctor. Ml take a picture of your arm and ask her what she thinks,” Ifemelu said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My father calmed me somewhat by saying that the skull was part of the witch doctor’s medicines. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The medicine that doctor gave me is very powerful. But what will kill me is that smell.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“When I get to be a doctor maybe I’ll come back and take care of guys like you.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” said the doctor, “this would have shown up on him since he was little, most likely, every time he came near a pizza.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote letters to doctors in England, spent his evenings reading casebooks at the library, gave up eating meat on Fridays in order to appease his household god. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had to go to the doctor the week after; my back was hurting real bad from all the strain. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Bipalychaetorsonectomy the doctors call it. I’m supposed to drink a beer milk shake. Doctor’s orders.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Keep a close eye on him, now," the doctor called after us. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A local doctor said, “I couldn’t begin to remember how many sick people have received medical attention at his expense, nor how many hungry mouths have tasted of his bounty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Once, Mama had taken him to the doctor to see why he slept so much. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The doctor chuckled amiably and lit another cigarette. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The doctor told my mother I had had pneumonia and that I was to get as much rest as possible. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was a baby, the doctors didn’t think he’d live. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Like many new parents, Stanton prepared for motherhood by reading dozens of books and consulting doctors for advice. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Please, you cannot take the newborn. It won’t survive!” yelled the doctor. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth insisted that this was merely an experiment, with the young doctor “trying out his training” and William “trying out a patient’s role.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Gangrene was spreading from Day’s toes to his knee; his doctor said his toes needed amputating, but Day refused. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And when it was made plain who Kino was, the doctor grew stern and judicious at the same time. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not resemble the patients in the doctor’s office, those who came glassy-eyed and desperate, unable to sleep or breathe or urinate with ease, unable, above all, to give words to their pains. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The doctor, who knew that grief had to work itself out, patted him on his head and left quietly. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called Rush a quack and a murderer, and even suggested the doctor was mentally unstable. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“They gonna have a lot of doctors there talking on different subjects and different areas of the science field,” she said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

You’d think that losing a major organ would entitle you to lie around a few weeks, but for some reason, my doctors want me up and moving almost immediately. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Not a proper physician, but he sees sick folk and prescribes medicines. All the real doctors are down on Water Street. It’s been a terrible day there. They say bodies are piling up like firewood.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not my habit to let my patients be bothered,” the doctor said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor guided my mother over to where I was. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

His father was some kind of doctor, I think. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She has not told Lucy, and made me promise secrecy; her doctor told her that within a few months, at most, she must die, for her heart is weakening. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the next room Granny lay ill and under the day and night care of a doctor and I knew that I would be punished if I did not obey. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, if a person isn’t talking—if that’s the whole point—then maybe the kind of doctor you can talk to is the very last person you should have to see. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The medical checkup took place outside, early in the morning, before three doctors seated on a bench. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Meat is supposed to be gray. They doctor up the color for the ads and so forth, but there's nothing wrong with these. You'll see." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor prescribed a glucose formula, crushed aspirins in a mortar, and told them to wrap the child with quilts and covers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ma turned her chair, shook the doctor's hand. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The doctor has been granted a fellowship at a hospital in the United States, and he, Victor, has just heard the family's papers have received clearance from the head of Immigration. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One doctor familiar with Nott’s theory was intrigued enough to follow up on it. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“If we get her to a doctor, there still might be a chance,” Rashid said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Please get me a witch doctor to cure me, Mama,” the words spilled out of my mouth unpremeditatedly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chiclets were his to hold before the doctor saw him, and to consume after. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

More nurses and doctors were pouring out of the entrance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

None of this, our doctor said, was out of the ordinary, or even all that terrible in isolation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor must have heard accusation in this question, judging by the defensive shift in her tone. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nhamo looked from the magazine to the two doctors and back again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it possible that not only the doctors but everyone who ministered to the colored population was involved in this incredible scheme? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the 1860s, doctors hadn't yet learned that microbes cause disease. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I have to call my doctor this week to find out how I'm really doing. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor wants to know, Was there any kind of accident? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You know, you’re as poor a liar as the doctor,” Clay told her as he ran his hand down her arm. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor moved the dial and watched her. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I joined Farmer on the Brigham’s radiology floor, in a quiet room where he was discussing various patients with younger doctors, mostly residents, who were his students. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

After two weeks, we went back to the doctor at the hospital and asked for advice. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The doctor requested me to write in his pocket notebook, my name, and regiment and some sentiment. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She says the doctor wants me to go to bed early. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The doctor puts great emphasis on the final three words. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The doctors told him that the bullet had not gone near my brain and that the injury wasn’t serious. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And when the stupid doctor told us Mama didn't make it, I felt like nothing, too. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then a doctor came into the waiting room. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The doctor shrugged, and his wet eyes never left Kino’s eyes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor says the limp should go away, but it might take a long time. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

But when Mom comes upstairs again, she doesn’t mention the doctor. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And yet I’d had one of those classic conversations with a doctor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The doctor’s voice softened then, and he almost whispered to Jeffrey, I’m sorry, buddy. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boynton did not agree with the treatment Garfield received from the doctors handling his case. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Illnesses, bad luck and unemployment were caused by witchcraft, and only the timely intervention by my ancestral spirits—through a powerful witch doctor as an intermediary—could relieve anyone of such suffering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think they’re going to train me to be a doctor.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

‘Those were your adenoids,’ I heard the doctor saying. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “I love you so much, and we’re going to get through this, okay? The doctors will know what to do.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I just sat and held it softly till Mrs. Hummel came with the doctor. He said it was dead, and looked at Heinrich and Minna, who have sore throats. ‘Scarlet fever, ma’am. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d gone to lie down in another patient’s bed and would not leave it, despite the doctors entreaties. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Already he has lived beyond the deadline the doctor predicted. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’d been sick for several months but refused to see a doctor. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Three doctors, a half dozen soldiers, and a small number of theater patrons have battled their way into the box. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, the pain in his liver had gone away, but Yossarian didn’t say anything and the doctors never suspected. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The eyes don’t heal and she takes me to the Dispensary where the poor people see doctors and get their medicines. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Oh, but the seafood here is so good," the doctor pleaded, looking at her from above his glasses, which had slipped down on his nose like a schoolteacher's. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

People stayed clear of funerals, doctors, and ministers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The doctor held my white broken arm like a big bone in his two hands, feeling how my fingers bent. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor grew more testy with his overworked years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the doctor was done, she gave the glove to a nurse, who rinsed it and pinned it back on the string. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nov 10—Mrs Mooney called a strange doctor to see me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maddy tugged off the doctor’s interface ring and dropped her to the floor, then pulled Shay inside. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We can talk more about this later, but I really do have to get ready. My doctor’s appointment’s in less than an hour.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The doctor arrived late the next morning to find Rufus’s fever gone. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Expected you to pass out through fright! Some people would have, wouldn't they, doctor?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“But the speech was marvelous,” added the colonel, smiling at the American doctor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor said that was “one of the most injurious things we could have given him.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I am to go, it’s all right,” Roosevelt had told the doctor. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“How do you know this stuff? Are you a doctor or something?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the doctors took my bandages off, they discovered I’d been replaced by a small, ugly alien. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Hours later the doctor came to the door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silently, making no sound on the hall carpeting, they hurried in their stocking feet down the hall to the doctor’s room. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dinner conversation was dominated by the three clients who were doctors—Stuart, John, and especially Beck, a pattern that would be repeated for much of the expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor said that Renault may have sustained a fracture of the jaw and there may be internal injuries. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Zeitouns were a high-achieving clan, full of doctors and school principals and generals and business owners, all of them with a passion for the sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Luke will bring your car around,” the doctor said gently. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether he could be a doctor; but no, I thought; he couldn’t be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He and the doctor lifted Grandfather and deposited him beside me. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, not yet. The doctor is with her.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One of the Shoun brother doctors concluded that the time of death was around ten days earlier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A few days later she heard that Edward Brodas, the master, was sick, and that the doctor had told the family he would surely die. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody in Mrs. Miller’s class had trouble believing this, because doctors aren’t all that special anyway. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But especially books about America, and books about doctors and medicine. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

With regret in his voice, he told me that his doctor advised him against defying and going to prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hannon comes in again and says that doctor doesn’t know what he’s talking about, see if Dr. Troy is back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The following year, doctors working with John Lawrence conceived a new use for the cyclotron: the direct irradiation of patients. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The drugstore was coming in to help the doctors, but Dr. Wilde was one of the few to maintain his own dispensary and to compound his own prescriptions. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But since the doctors’ strike had started, he had run a small clinic in town. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

From this, the doctors can tell not only whether you are dead or alive but whether you are resting or working hard, or whether there is something wrong with your heart. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Only if the doctors say yes. I have my interview tomorrow." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

On July 21, the day after the doctors’ positive bulletin, they discovered cotton and wool fibers mixed with the pus coming from the wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Agnes began experiencing unusual symptoms and paid a visit to her doctor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad is that guy who avoids going to doctors at all costs. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And then, almost immediately, a rash on his face and chest, a sore throat, a high fever, and another doctor with another black leather bag. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen different doctors, all with a different story. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Polly looked at her and said, “It’s very bad. Mr. Derby wants the doctor to see the body of the child.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will tell you when the doctor arrives. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She's no doctor, but she is a mother and that means something. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A prisoner doctor looked at him and confirmed that he had dysentery. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor looked sadly at the three young people in the wagon. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment the doctor, turning reluctantly away from his wife’s closed door, followed. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was telling the corporal that a doctor must be fetched—and she wanted Doctor Warren. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer was here today to consult, not dictate, so he diplomatically reviewed the treatment options with the doctors in the room. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A nurse appeared and disappeared through the tattered- curtained doctor’s door. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the mother and the baby for some clue to their mutual satisfaction, but before I had discovered anything, the doctor called me in. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She enumerated for Gladys, who had been working for us only a month, all the treasures el doctor had brought his girls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He'd given them a disease—probably an ancient one the doctors didn't know about. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“They truly had no idea what was going on, and they really wanted to understand. But doctors just took blood samples without explaining anything and left the family worrying.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But what if my mother or sisters needed a doctor? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After two hours, one of my doctors greeted Mom and Dad at the operating room door. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

There the doctor sat idle over a pot of tea. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Louis George was a doctor friend Kevin had met through his writing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Until the doctor tells me I’m wrong, it is a boy.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Grinch cast one look at me, his top lip peeling back in annoyance, before waving the doctor forward. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then the doctor finally takes his hand away, I breathe a sigh of relief, and Ilse is there, with her hair covered and a mask on. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After a while Willum and the other doctors returned to discuss Matt’s health. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We met a nerve-racked Dad at the birthing center, which was nothing like a doctor’s office. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelt of laudanum, and looking on the sideboard, I found that the bottle which mother’s doctor uses for her—oh! did use—was empty. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Not ten doctors in all of Nebraska would know to use traction. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“If it isn’t our very own animal doctor!” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

No one knows for sure, but local doctors think that as many as 30 percent of all men and women of childbearing age who live in the vicinity of Mount Elgon are infected with hiv. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of cases like these, a growing number of activists—ethicists, lawyers, doctors, and patients —are arguing cases and pushing for new regulations that would grant people the right to control their tissues. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The doctor was right. This is going to be a long recovery. And because it’s only the two of us at Garland, they’re not going to release me early.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The first was that they wanted the doctors and medical staff who had performed the operation, and all of the staff at the hospital, to receive some recognition for their efforts. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

So my mother took me to a doctor whose job it was to figure out how smart I was. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Major Rathbone, standing between Leale and Lincoln, asked the doctor to treat him first, holding up his injured left arm to show his wounds. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is a client of mine,” the doctor said. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tuesday, just before lunch, a doctor and a policewoman and a technician came in. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor encouraged his son to take the plunge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you even watching your sugar the way the doctor said last time? Repeat after me: diabetic coma.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The last time I heard it, I listened to all the words, even the nonsense ones, and whoever wrote that song didn’t know anything at all about witch doctors. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He also paints a watercolor and makes a drawing for the doctor who treated him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My parents had at first refused to believe the emergency room doctor’s wild claim about my anatomy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Tayo shook his head when the doctor finished reading the report. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One doctor suggested she might have multiple sclerosis; so many of her symptoms seemed to indicate some kind of degenerative illness. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She took one look at me and recommended a doctor she knew. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Martha alone of the older children didn’t need to have her tonsils out, the doctor said, and the children younger than Lillian could wait awhile. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could this George Bakewell have become a doctor so suddenly? The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of just disposing of the foot, though, the doctors wanted to use cartilage from the toes to build me a new nose. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

You have to love it when the doctor lays all this horrific stuff on you and then tells you not to worry. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But people—and especially doctors—had doubts about normality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Here’s what my dad said had happened: He was out bonefishing with two doctors from New Jersey when he spotted Derek Mays stringing a gill net near Little Rabbit Key. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He sometimes wore a doctor’s face mask instead of a diaper. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We were ushered into a mustard-colored office where Russian doctors, health specialists, and government leaders were waiting for us. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And there are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cooks or doctors or electricians for the prison like my dad does. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The power of the doctors and the power of the church had failed to cure my uncle. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even within their bastion of privilege, Brandon is royalty—second generation at St. Joseph’s, football captain, the son of two doctors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

After inquiring with several other nurses and two doctors, she was able to find where they had placed Frankie. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The doctor examined the little family, peering under their eyelids and looking down their throats. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors examined the clothes Anna wore—her bloomers, her skirt—searching for unusual tears or stains. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“When we find a room with a window,” the doctor remarked, “we will open it; until then, let us be content with opening the front door.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It happened quickly, this vocational sorting—the bankers, lawyers, doctors, and executives of tomorrow hastily migrating toward their next launchpad, whether it was graduate school or a cushy Fortune 500 training-program job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As the first nun at Ngaliema Hospital, Sister M. E., lay dying, her doctors had decided to give her a so-called agonal biopsy. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uriah kneels across from the doctor and helps her shift Lynn’s hands away from her stomach. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

So badly, and with no money to pay a doctor, that some people carry us to a church, to Titid’s church “So this is how you came to meet Titid, Djo?” asks the girl. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually an ER doctor walked into the waiting room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The doctor says no, and that I should just go back to school. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With great difficulty, the doctors gently turn Lincoln on his side so that the excess fluid will run from his mouth and not choke him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Luke and the doctor strained against the door, as though desperately holding it shut, and the floor moved under their feet. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He said he liked to go to doctors’ offices and see their certificates and degrees on the wall. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told her about the last call from the doctor and what he’d told her. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Of course I don’t think you’re—aw, hell, just forget it. Look, if he sobers up, try to keep him that way, okay? I’ll catch up with you later with the doctor.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It would be more than twenty years before another doctor took Finlay and his work seriously. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“It was late last night. He’s home. His doctor friend came over and checked him right away.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The mayor, two doctors, a shoemaker, a tailor, a chandler, a gunsmith, a drummer, and a fifer were all charged with treason and a host of other offenses. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you a doctor?” asked Milo, trying to feel as well as possible. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was simply standing about, waiting for you, praying that the news from the doctor would be encouraging.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my! First a doctor and hospital to give birth, then college insurance. What next?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Institute, there is a Level 4 biocontainment hospital called the Slammer, where a patient can be treated by doctors and nurses wearing space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent still wants to marry her, but her doctor counsels patience. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Richard was talking to Father Marcel about God on the morning the doctor arrived. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was accompanied by a doctor and a nurse. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t recall where he’d gotten the photo, but he imagined Henrietta’s family must have given it to Howard Jones or another doctor at Hopkins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor left the room, and then Sefia and Archer were alone between Captain Reed and the chief mate. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sandi remembered when the famous Doctor Fanning and his wife had come down to instruct the country's leading doctors on new procedures for heart surgery. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

No more being stuck inside whitewashed buildings all over the world as doctors try drug after drug, treatment after treatment, none of them working. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Our house was often full of relatives from Shangla who came to Mingora when they needed to go to the doctor or do some shopping. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It is you, Rochester. We thought you were the doctor.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors immediately cheered up, although one of the women had the grace to blush. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor said she’d probably never be able to talk again. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was now clear why the doctors had summoned not the sheriff or a prosecutor but Bill Smith’s personal attorney. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some of the things I see would of made me faint a year ago, but now I face them the way the nurses and doctors do. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Concerned that the boy might get hurt if released, the doctor sat him down in a holding cell and left to telephone his mother. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scurrying procession came at last to the big gate in the wall of the doctor’s house. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the doctor confirmed the baby’s condition, Hitler granted the parents’ request. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The pastor is talking with the school principal, Charlie’s family doctor, and two guys I never saw before. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A doctor and a nurse ran out to find out what the trouble was. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray must’ve noticed me crying, because he asked the doctor if he could step out with him for a second to talk about rehab stuff. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And he got what he wanted, from an unexpected source: Sir James Jay, a British doctor who lived in London and dabbled in chemistry. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her expression was that of a mother watching a doctor remove bandages from a severely burned child. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The doctor’s tight smile could have cut glass. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My husband, the doctor, usually does not take drop-in patients,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had it in my head that this doctor had found me on the roadside and that he didn’t know my father was also hurt. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had been a great concert pianist, the doctor said, until illness forced her to retire. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it must be somebody I knew dressed up as a doctor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“How did they manage? Without any doctors, I mean.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“The doctor said we could adopt,” she murmured. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My parents, thinking I was bewitched, took me to a witch doctor, who made me drink a strange brew and bled me with a razor blade, all to no avail: I continued withdrawing into myself. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tracy studied biochemistry and French, hoping to become a doctor. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

What sorts of excuses people had used on that first morning to get the doctor and the locksmith out of the house Gregor was completely unable to ascertain. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big Emerge van, the one with the machines and the mobile doctors, is parked farther along the circular drive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I must make a full account of this,” the doctor said happily. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I remonstrated that we did not have funds sufficient to call doctor or surgeon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There were thirty-five team members, and most of them were Kenyans, including wildlife naturalists, scientists, doctors, and laborers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My symptoms weren’t mentioned in the morning when the “sergeant doctor”—as the civilians called him—lined up children and families for treatment. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“All her notes on making pretties into Specials. Not just the physical part”—he pulled her closer—“but also how the brain lesions work. It’s everything my parents weren’t told when they were doctors!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I rang up her doctor, who came round at once and diagnosed the usual influenza. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She explained over her shoulder that we were going to the doctor and she’d “pass the time of day” on our way home. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biopsy But the doctor had made it clear that the ugly black hunk of skin was something bad. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She kept telling me she was fine, that even her doctor said so. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He is leaving for Pakistan in a few days to consult some doctors there and, Inshallah, he will return with good news. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Would you rather be put up at the Ritz with free room service and unlimited access to a doctor or be homeless without a soul to care for you? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor and nurses had treated me in a natural way as though they had been dealing with blacks on a basis of equality all their lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men looked at each other and at the doctor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Montague’s voice preceded her, and she swept into the dining room, tapped the doctor curtly on the shoulder by way of greeting and seated herself with a general nod to the others. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctors still don’t know what’s wrong with her. She needs to be taken care of.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Cold kiss of the stethoscope; she was doctor and patient both, asking and answering. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor listened with his stethoscope and then painted a circle on his chest with a piece of cotton dipped in iodine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I say, “It’s a real thing. A problem. The doctor knows. He calls it die-ya-for—something.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The hotel doctor prescribed a tonic that did nothing to improve his condition. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Penny said the doctors want it left alone. You’ll remember in your own time and no one should push it on you.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There were two pictures on his desk: one of the good doctor squatting in the middle of all these smiling black faces, the other of a gorgeous yet wholesome-looking woman with nice perky tits. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t cutting the frog open or anything, but I started narrating as Twig sliced, like Twig was one of those doctors on TV. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Phantom limb pain,” Caroline explained, “a kind of pain that people feel after they’ve had their arms or legs amputated. The doctor thought this would make it go away.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The doctor enlisted the help of Evenks, native hunters and fishermen, who lived less than thirty kilometers away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The doctor is still shouting, hammering his fist on the door, and there are other voices in the courtyard, too. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s no bigger than the doctor’s pinkie finger, but when he pulls his finger away, the result is like a cork being removed from a bottle. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s very sick, Pa. The doctor says he’s going to die.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The doctors had until dawn to find the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had a big, flat nose this wasn’t quite so pronounced, but it would become obvious if the doctors fixed it. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Please, sir, she needs a doctor. She needs antivenom. And she needs it fast.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Try not to wander around alone too much,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The president complained of severe pain in his legs, and the doctors gave him morphine. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She listened to what the doctors recommended, but on many occasions she ignored their guidance and relied on a combination of maternal instinct and common sense. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

‘He’s been up here long enough,’ the doctor said. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoun explained that nurses “often leave when the doctors come in.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Come here one at a time, then,” the doctor said, and Theodora moved forward, grimacing as she passed the doorway. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached the center of the room, one of the doctors put a mask over my face and asked me to count backward from ten. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

One doctor, noticing inflammation under Dr. Philobosian’s eyelids, had stopped the examination and chalked an X on his coat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Haitian doctors, who were used to seeing death, became even more hardened or indifferent to the suffering around them. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

By the time she had turned thirty, prison doctors diagnosed her with multiple sclerosis, intellectual disability, and mental illness related to trauma. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The doctor was doing something to him again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

These sensors tell the doctors on the ground about your heart. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After every doctor’s appointment, she came by to give them the latest updates, and as her clothes began to tighten the Ryans presented her with new ones. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her father wouldn’t be smiling like that unless the news from the doctor had been good. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now Nel was going back there alone and Sula was waiting for the medicine the doctor said not to take until the pain got really bad. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The American doctors who had already failed the Bush Hill patients were so upset that they even promised to show up more regularly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Then, "Why not castration, doctor?" a voice asked waggishly, causing me to start, a pain tearing through me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the ambulance came and the doctor went in to Baby. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The man gestured impatiently, as if waving the doctor's words aside. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word Theodora took up the quilt from the foot of the doctor’s bed and folded it around Eleanor and herself, and they moved close together, slowly in order not to make a sound. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

These were things that the doctors had to operate on him so that he could do them. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

How long would it take the doctor to caravan to India, and what did he do in the heat of the day, as the camels lay on the ground resting? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The little doctor paces, hands behind his back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Black folks, our customers, they’d come into the store and buy BC powder, fill up on that, that was their doctor. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put him on the floor,” the doctor orders. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

After immigrating to the United States three years ago, Uncle Amin hadn’t passed the medical board exams needed to practice as a doctor. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I was a doctor and they were my patients. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Garfield’s medical care appalled doctors who trusted Joseph Lister's antiseptic methods. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Keep back, now,” said the doctor to Mr. Fitzgibbon, who had left his tractor to watch. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And he sent me to a special ear doctor who took impressions of my ears. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Turtle felt her first grip of panic as she confronted the crippled doctor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then he was out of danger, but the doctors said his lungs might never develop fully. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The doctor has a PhD in psychology from American University, which, to me, sounds a little too generic to be real. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When he heard about the doctors’ resignation, he asked to see the records of patients in the study. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The view, where a moment before all had been so bright and sunny, was now dark and hazy,” said a doctor named Michihiko Hachiya. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many do you have?” asked the doctor following our rapid examinations. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“There is a doctor who must see us.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after the doctor put the sheet over Papa’s face. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

This is the same thing that happens with doctors in the ER. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I've lied to the doctors and nurses who were trying to help me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Arthur, followed by a Luke looking very much amused, returned from checking the other bedrooms on the floor and nodded briskly at the doctor. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After all, a person has only two hands, and these days there’re too many patients and too few doctors.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The doctor stood up, and held out his hand. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear to the doctors that Ernest’s chronic colitis had severely compromised his digestive system. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The doctor has told me to say only restful things to you, so I said, “Yes, Djo. Stripping palm is one of my jobs.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph Lister changed other minds, too, particularly those of America's younger doctors. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The doctors’ puzzlement grows over why I’m unable to speak. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then the doctor hurried in, followed by his man. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor gave me pills to give at intervals while traveling so that the ailment never came back. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turns back to the doctors and says something in German. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As far as the doctors could see, Henrietta’s cervix was normal again, and they felt no tumors anywhere else. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor said, “He had cancer,” and hung up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know for sure until a doctor opened the door to the windowless hospital “family room” where we were waiting, and said, “Did your husband have a heart condition?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her doctors stopped the radiation treatment and seemed as defeated by the cancer as she was. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Treatments offered by doctors only made matters worse. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then, between them, they got Matt to his bed while the Turners’ oldest boy drove over to Hidalgo for the doctor. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's the wife, doctor. I can't get her to wake. My God! I can't get her to wake. And—and she don't look right to me." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

At first he had recoiled at the suggestion, but the doctor said holding the baby might help him with the process of grieving. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She says she couldn’t think of a time the drugs had impacted her driving, noting that she’d gotten use to a dose that, doctors say, could be manageable behind the wheel. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The doctor agreed that it was probably the damp cell that had helped cause my illness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “this decision isn’t up to us. You’re fourteen, and we think you should decide whether the doctors do the operation or not.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He was under doctor’s orders to take a nap every day. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom Grieves had to pedal through Nantucket on a bicycle to find the doctor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just soap, which I intend to use. Find it for me, will you? Then...hell, I shouldn’t be doing this. Why didn’t you take her to the doctor?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Say, why don’t you wrap a bandage around me for effect ?” “That sounds like a splendid idea,” applauded the doctor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The doctors are still in their van; their faces appear at the window, white blobs, like the faces of sick children confined to the house. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor said his condition is hopeless; they think the cancer has spread to his lungs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The old woman beckoned that we sit, cross-legged, opposite the witch doctor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors thought that Thunder had some kind of terrible blood disease. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘He can’t go round without a nose for the rest of his life!’ the doctor said to my mother. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pair of silver-backed brushes his mother had given him when he was sixteen, engraved with his initials, the abbreviated degree designation of a doctor. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the doctor opened the knee up he discovered that Boobie had torn the anterior cruciate ligament. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will. Just let them see you. That will do more for them than any doctor in the world could.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But the new doctor persisted; he came each day, and his questions dissolved the edges of the fog, and his voice sounded louder every time he came. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Should she have pushed the doctors harder for a clearer diagnosis? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"It's Widge," the doctor answered for me, then laughed nervously, as if suddenly aware how odd was the name he had been calling me for seven years. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had the potential to undo all the good work the doctors had done. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The doctors would simply find some more spare cartilage and I’d end up with a scar on the left of my chest, just like the one I had on the right. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The psychiatrist who wrote the first blooper presumably intended his second clause to convey a temporal sequence between two events: the patient saw the doctor, and since that time she has been depressed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The officer turned to the doctor and kicked the heel of his boot into the doctor’s kneecap. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I keep telling my mom, but she won’t take me to the doctor ’cause we don’t have insurance. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“What color is the word doctor?” he asks. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I picked up a mug in front of a doctor studying the chess board. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sallow, puffy-eyed doctor who saw us introduced himself as a second-year resident. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to see a doctor if someone in your family’s got a fever,” he warned. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And although my father was not a fisherman but a pharmacist’s assistant who had once been a doctor in China, he believed in his nengkan, his ability to do anything he put his mind to. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way back from the doctor’s office, my mom asked me if I’d written back to Dante. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Selma University later honored him with a doctor of divinity degree. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then she would tell the doctor when he made his rounds what needed adjusting or things like that. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bliss and the other doctors believed this sound proved that the bullet was in the lower right front of the abdomen, just as they suspected. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The doctors were worried my face would prove a huge problem when I ventured beyond the safe walls of Fortress Hoge and into the big, wide world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Each fresh arrival was briefed in this way; people—police, doctor, family members, servants—stood in knots that unraveled and reformed in corners of rooms, the hallway and the terrace outside the French windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The doctor sent his son to the house. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Said we didn’ have no money to waste on no doctor when it couldn’t do no good. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My father didn’t like the doctor one bit after that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His doctor drove him to the airport, and Agnes rode along with them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, sixty years later, I can still remember that Dobson’s father was a doctor and that he lived, as I had learnt from the label on Dobson’s tuck-box, at The Red House, Uxbridge, Middlesex. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors think that eventually he’ll need to wear hearing aids, though. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Before leaving, Haupt asked the doctor for a signed note to give his employer, advising against any physical exertion until a diagnosis was determined. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He hired a doctor and a dentist and provided their services to his miners and their families for free. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

To be a doctor or a lawyer or a newspaper man, you needed to go to university. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to go all the way to London for no doctor,” said one of the Gypsy men. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The stranger flung the book onto the trestle table, which held the doctor's equipment. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In one possibly apocryphal story, doctors once trained a homeless man to do routine lab tests because there was no one else available. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

What kind of a way was this for a doctor to think? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He had better have a look at it,” the second doctor said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I thought doctors were supposed to be smart. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I was suffering from a bad case of the flu and my doctors ordered me to remain at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team doctor taped my ankle as best he could and I left the rest to Allah. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“The patient states that she feels fairly well,” one doctor wrote in her chart, “however she continues to complain of some vague lower abdominal discomfort. . . . No evidence of recurrence. Return in one month. ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her dad was a doctor, and he wrote an excuse. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

How many formal visits to a doctor, any doctor, including yourself? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not know a tubercular mouse from a cancerous mouse; the white doctors had made sure that we would not know. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor stood away from the wall; her hands were cold and she wanted to cry, but she turned her back to the library door, which the doctor propped open with a stack of books. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But suddenly the doctor saw the eyes of the “crazy” girl—they were sparkling with fun. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Close it,” Buttercup said, and the doctors closed the door. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, a physician assistant and an attending doctor examined her again and found her complaining of chest pain, shortness of breath, and heart palpitations. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could count on it,” the doctor said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Health-care delivery is what doctors now do, along with hospitals and the other professionals who work with doctors, now known collectively as the health providers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waves of hurt started by the doctor’s words were racking her body and drove out all other feeling. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The First National Bank, which had dished out loans as freely as a doctor gives out lollipops, was in grave trouble. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor was a thin quiet little man who seemed disturbed by the war. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And it was when he got to the bit where El-ahrairah dresses up and pretends to be the doctor at King Darzin’s palace that I suddenly had an idea. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth do you plan to do?” the doctor asked. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The more Bill delved, conferring with doctors and local investigators, the more he was certain that Lizzie had died of something dreadfully unnatural: she’d been poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby with concern edging his voice, said, “Isabelle is about to have the child. I have sent Noah to Charles Town for the doctor, but it will be several hours before they return.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Edward, who had gone home, returned and still more doctors were called in. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a moment that made him deeply aware of how lucky he was that his father was a doctor. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But according to the doctors who diagnosed me, people with my kind of syndrome can’t. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I explained that I didn’t try to kill myself, the doctors, nurses, shrinks, they’d all say, “So, what were you doing on the edge of the roof?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“They want you to come home. They are worried about you. They think you might need the doctors again.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We pass by EMTs pushing gurneys, doctors striding out of elevators, nurses hurrying along in their sky-blue scrubs. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Karl Johnson, having heard nothing from the team of doctors upriver in Bumba, wondered if they were dead, and assumed that the virus was about to go on a bum through the city. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tested her with questions about the food, the doctor, the weather, and the tile ashtray she had made in arts and crafts therapy. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There I was attended by a tall, fine-featured doctor who seemed to hate me as much as Colonel Garcia and refused to give me any painkillers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor had given me the same line, reassured me it wouldn’t hurt one bit. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many keys, like maybe it could have been every key, ever, to the building, the keys somebody had made all the doctors and nurses and staff people turn in before they left. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

One morning, in came the doctor to examine us, and sailing along beside him was the Matron. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was clean inside and outside and waiting for the doctor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He told them that one of the doctors who treated Henrietta didn’t have a medical license, and that another had been expelled from the American Medical Association. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When my father condemned doctors as minions of Satan, Richard turned to Kami and gave a small laugh, as if Dad were joking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay, Mami. Really. The doctor said I could move it all I want.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It’s a slow recuperation, but when I feel better the doctor says that I can look for a position back with the government. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We arrived at the hospital midmorning for what should have been a simple procedure, but when the doctors tried to remove the splints they discovered tissue had grown around them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The doctor, a great Jewish doctor, a prisoner like ourselves, was categorical: “We have to operate! If we wait, the toes and perhaps the leg will have to be amputated.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We moved because, like, my dad got sick and needed the doctors here.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“There might be a next time,” the doctor said sternly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to strangle the good doctor with his bare hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I sensed that the doctor knew Haiti far better than the captain, and that he was trying to give him some important information. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to be a doctor when I grow up,” announced Emilia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All she knew was that the doctor had prescribed a certain diet, hours of rest to be rigidly adhered to, and cod-liver oil twice a day. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cadence, said the doctors, don’t take too much. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

If you tell her the child is dying in your arms she’ll say the doctor is in the country riding his horse. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After all, the doctor is a personal friend. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a real doctor in the compound, so the doctoring was up to him. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maryam’s cousin—a merchant of rare furs—knocks on the doctor’s back gate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She calmed down only when they swore that they would take Rosa directly from the house to the Catholic cemetery: only then did she accept the laudanum the doctor handed her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents named him after the doctor who attended his birth, Dr. Willard. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered Asclepius’s grim expression when the doctor had examined Leo. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t I take medicine,” I said, “and then pray to Jesus to thank him for giving us the doctors who invented medicine, because medicine is what makes you feel better, not Jesus.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The doctors let us in one at a time to see Father, who had come out of surgery back in the early evening. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When her attempt to abort herself failed and the doctor threatened her, she gave up that method. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, the doctors were all in accord. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We need a doctor. We need medicine,” I said, shivering. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“He is gone. He is dead,” one of the doctors said. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most immigrant families successful enough to afford better—the doctors, lawyers, and businessmen—packed up and resettled in middle-class communities, usually with other families from the homeland. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A doctor who didn’t understand local culture might mistake patients’ complaints for bizarre superstitions, or be utterly baffled by Haitian logic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He is a doctor and he works more than anyone I have ever seen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If the doctor had come then, could they have saved him? Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Rosa hated him, and so did the fierce man and the doctor. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decided right then and there he wanted to be a doctor, though not a heart surgeon because, he thought, “Ooh, the heart’s gross.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When she went to the doctor for an appointment, a month earlier, the doctor told her that she had a serious illness and that she had about three months to live, if not less. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘You need a doctor quick!’ cried the King. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Welch students came from families with fathers who were doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, and bankers, and their high school was the newest, best-equipped school in the county. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fortune presents her a second chance in the form of an impoverished doctor—in fact, a prince in disguise who has elected to work among the needy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

From behind the doctor’s curtain, sinister voices murmured, interrupted by howls from savaged children. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof leaks, the garage floods, and slugs or take her daughter to the doctor when she gets sick. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I burst out crying into my hands; I cried for Phineas and for myself and for this doctor who believed in facing things. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she lay moaning in her bed, Harry set off for Bonners Ferry, Idaho, eighteen miles away on twisting mountain roads, to fetch a doctor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The doctors seem to expect her to work magic on their orders, she said, and the certified nursing assistants resent her place of privilege. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

No prayer, no cure from the modern doctor two towns over, no remedies of the field offered shyly and secretly by his parishioners. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The doctors said I was lucky to be alive. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Belknap had never met Holmes but knew all about his troubled marriage to Myrta and was prepared to dislike the young doctor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Did anything happen in here while we were outside?” the doctor asked. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then it wouldn’t be my fault that I didn’t get to go to Yale and become a doctor. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Did the doctor tell you to take this much?” he asked thickly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors listened carefully and then expressed their agreement with Farmer—some, like the girl’s father, eagerly and gratefully. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Doha once asked his father why that was and his father had said, “Because doctors are also teachers. We teach people to take better care of themselves.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"Not been to a doctor for years—neither of us." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

After all, my colors and shapes may not be around much longer if I can actually find a doctor to cure me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The doctors and nurses seem smart, but they smile every once in a while. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Powell would pretend he was a messenger delivering important medicine from Seward’s doctor. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I just wish I knowed where my f-f-feets are. That the main thing worries me. The doctor never given them back to me. I sure do wish I knowed where they are.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The nurse was on one side and the doctor stood on the other side of the table beside some cylinders. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I need to go to the eye doctor next week. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

That reminds me that I haven’t heard anything about his doctor appointment today. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Nana and the doctor carried him up to his bedroom, removed his clothes, and put him in his bed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this true? You were taking brandy to the soldiers and not asking them to rescue the girl?” the doctor said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped the plane on the runway at Kennedy Airport and removed the doctor, who was carrying some $650,000 in negotiable securities, and jewelry that had belonged to his wife. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not bad at all. Looks like that sneeze helped you cauterize the rest of the capillaries. You might make a good doctor someday.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I see one of the doctors looking out the window of the van. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

My Aunt Libby had married an Italian, and Teresa was my aunt's sister-in-law and our family doctor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The doctors removed as much as they could. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The doctor sat back in another chair; his hair freshly combed, looking neat and dapper and self-possessed. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the real world, some doctors peddled drugs on the black markets, desperate patients sold their antibiotics to buy food, and stupid pharmacists mixed up prescriptions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“The doctor will be in to see you shortly. But first I’m removing those bandages!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” the doctor told him soberly and then said to his wife, “Good night. Be careful.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He barely looks old enough to be a doctor. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Finally a doctor came, gray-haired, white-coated, spectacled, efficient, serious, taciturn, bearing a tray upon which sat a bottle of mysterious fluid and a hypodermic needle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all seemed very silly to him until one of the doctors said, “Well, do you think we should save his life? They might be sore at us if we do.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

One Saturday morning after cartoons and Corn Flakes my parents sat me down at our kitchen table and told me about a new operation the doctors had planned. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“The doctor got all the glass out. He said when the swelling and redness go down, I’ll look basically the same as I used to. Just with a lot of scars.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A score of porters, nurses and doctors were moving through the crowd. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He said, “A son. Soon he’s going to be taller than me. Taller and smarter. He’ll be a great doctor. A brain surgeon. Or lawyer for the Supreme Court.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You okay?” he asked, even though he knew she needed a doctor and stitches and a real bandage, and she needed them as soon as possible. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Again, my recall of that visit was fragmented, and what was left behind had nothing to do with the doctor. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

According to the doctors, however, this was probably not true. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand why the doctor who came to make sure Lynn was dead was one of the same doctors who had been taking care of her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A wonderful thing, a memorable thing, to want the doctor. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had an appointment with my brain doctor on June 25. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to the doctor’s office, my dad was very talkative—which was very weird. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered how Amma had shielded you from doctors and hospitals. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Papa had paid to have her see the best doctors and therapists in Nigeria and abroad. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her doctors had just diagnosed it, an aggressive form of lymphoma, already ravaging her organs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor made out a diet for Antonapoulos and said that he could drink no more wine. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The doctor seemed a little concerned that he was still wheezing. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I am the Dr. Meescham who is the doctor of philosophy,” said the voice. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

In it, an infertility doctor secretly harvests extra embryos from one of his patients and uses them to create a colony of clones of the woman’s son, who died young in an accident. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor had put in a replacement ligament, but it was hard to construct one that could handle the natural stress caused by the constant starting and stopping of running with the football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She hopes to be a doctor someday, you know.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Shortly before Bill died, the nurse recalled, he had met with his doctors, James and David Shoun, and with his lawyer. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My new doctor’s name is Dr. Fischel, which is appropriate, because he kind of does have a face like a trout. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He paused and then went on: "Did you happen to bring a revolver along with you, doctor?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“You know, Djo, the doctor think you got a little too much taste of salt. So drink water now. I will sing you to sleep. The rest of the story can wait till tomorrow.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can’t call the doctor every time there’s a fever in this place. What’s the matter with you all of a sudden?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor’s exam had showed it was more a sprained ligament than anything else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sorry about the root-doctor because she feared that Joe was depending on the scoundrel to make him well when what he needed was a doctor, and a good one. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

At first there was some hesitation in the committee over hiring a French doctor. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She made up her mind to be off after the doctor with the first glow of day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Monte Cristi was too hot, desert really, and their doctor had prescribed healthier air for the little boy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the men who were able to walk made it to a nearby farmhouse and convinced the owner to call a doctor. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we got to the base and the sergeant doctor went to work on me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s a sign of a strong pregnancy,” the doctors assured Mrs. Richardson, but a few weeks after hiring the housekeeper, she had begun to bleed and was placed on bed rest. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The doctor told me I’d be able to take a shower that morning, as much as I’d have liked that nurse to help me out again. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As word spread that a young, handsome, and apparently unmarried doctor now stood behind the counter, an increasing number of single women in their twenties began to patronize the store. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When the three got together, Farmer told them, in French, that he dreamed of a new kind of “triangle”—doctors from Cuba and money from France coming together in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, here we go. You read one article and now you’re Mr. Science! Are you a doctor now? No! You’re not! Quit being a hypochondriac.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Is this diagnosis true?” asked the doctor, and he let the hakata fall again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t a pain that she or the doctors could take away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He finally convinced the old man to go see a doctor. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, they are human, like us, and they are all doctors or nurses. I know because my brother met some Americans,” Kadiatu informed us. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it gave me a good gash on the leg and we had to find a doctor. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“How many fingers do you see now?” asked the doctor, holding up two. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When I got there, the doctor took me into the room to see my brother. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She said they had only two doctors and both were operating at the moment. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Baba is at home. She couldn’t sleep last night. She’s afraid another catastrophe will happen. The doctor gave her pills to calm her nerves.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The plane’s Zairean crew was terrified, afraid to breathe the air, and they left the propellers idling while they shoved the doctors down the gangway and heaved their bags out after them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Naw, I’m worried about your hand. If you get hurt then the law’s gonna come and say I have to pay all the doctor bills.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What a labor of love it is,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Is she all right?” she asked, turning as the doctor came back into the room. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a last-ditch effort to save Roosevelt’s life, the doctor filled his syringe with quinine and injected it directly into Roosevelt’s abdomen. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

We walk into the living room, and the smoking doctor is examining the hallway with the ladder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He remembered a doctor with a black leather bag, and the lingering smell of camphor in the house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her parents looked at each other, but it was the maid who answered the doctor's question. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They paddled into the yard and asked the doctor if he needed help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The doctor would suck his teeth and narrow his eyes at Hassan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She must be coming to see if The Abbot is dead or needing a doctor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For many months she ran from one doctor to another because Raymond’s foot wouldn’t heal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dad pulled back his fist as if to hit the doctor, who raised his hands and backed away. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wished he were a doctor, like his sister. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Coach, she sprained her ankle,” the doctor confirmed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The doctor turned his back on us then. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through it all, I only missed two days in the gym, although I only worked on uneven bars and upper body conditioning until the doctor cleared me to do more. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The operations the doctors had done on my face over the years started to pay off. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He said he was not afraid because years before a witch doctor gave him a charm against evil spirits. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He publicly charged that Bliss had broken the American Medical Association's ethical code, which gave a patient's regular doctor the right to see him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Not me, Mama. I’m going to be a doctor, and doctors don’t clean.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In one such study, a doctor who had no specialized training in chemical pathology undertook a five-year program in which volunteers were asked to breathe in or swallow lead in elevated quantities. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I remember Coach M telling them to put me in the cart and drive me down the hill to the doctor’s, and I saw JP standing in front of me, holding the cleat I’d thrown. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There is no doctor attached to our Regiment, so we minister as best we can. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Whitefolks said he was a witch doctor, but they said that so they wouldn’t have to say he was smart. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors kept her sedated the rest of that day and night to rest. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He went to a doctor and requested a cursory, nonintrusive examination, but was told that only a blood test would enable the doctor to evaluate his kidney function. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s just what the doctors wanted to know!” blurted out the chaplain proudly, and burst into laughter. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The doctor made a quick examination, inserted a packing, and turned to Adam. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the doctor left, Hari’s maa asked in an impatient voice, “Are we to listen to such a man when the waters of the Ganges River are waiting?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The orange-haired doctor returned, checked the pulse of the sleeping child, and sighed to the nurse. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the persistent coughing all night and wheezing all day finally led Mother to take me to a white doctor’s office, where there were many white patients but only a very few of us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

All that afternoon the doctors came and went. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have pleased Felicia, because she smiled and rested her head against the doctor’s chest. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor looked at me with a disgruntled expression. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

All kinds of professions now crowded in together, foundry workers and lawyers, maids and carpenters, doctors and hoodlums, but most people, this being 1932, were unemployed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“She has done this before,” Luke said to the doctor. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sugar broke Ma’s lower extremities, which is how doctors say legs. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The doctor hadn’t said my name, for instance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No, Powell said, the doctor said he had to deliver it personally to the secretary of state and instruct him how to take the medicine. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor confirmed you both had dengue fever. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A private doctor donates his time to reconstruct a boy’s foot if Olga provides the materials for the operation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He comes back moments later and reports that a family, a doctor from Phnom Penh with his wife and their three children, have committed suicide by swallowing poison. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the next time I called him his brother was all right—the doctor had changed his pills, Danny said, and that seemed to work. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

So instead I tell him I have to take my mom to some doctor for her sleep problems. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t done doctoring, but Karl was done being a patient. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Charles wrote a PS: “Since this written our Baby has become suddenly most ill the doctor can only say there is yet some hope.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to doctors but they never knew what it was. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

At night, posing as friends of the doctor, they returned to the building and convinced a cleaning woman, Maria Martinez, to unlock the door to Fielding’s office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The doctor used forceps to deliver me and injured my scalp. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, doctor, you praise me too much, and—and you do not know me.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Within an hour, the doctor arrived and he went through the same prodding and poking and I did my yelping at what I thought were the proper times. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've got to call that doctor back in an hour or so and tell some more lies. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, darling, 1 have the most wonderful doctor,” Catherine said in a very strange voice. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This is my brother, Cornelius. He’s going to be a doctor.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard had no business being out of bed at all, but he had talked his doctors into letting him attend the race on the condition that two of them, plus a nurse, go with him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conversation In the car I ask Dad if going to the doctor will kill him. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

When she was in second grade, she and another girl made a pact that they would both become doctors, and she held up her end of the bargain. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Is this, the doctors at Cook County asked themselves, any way to run a hospital? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Only the way the doctor and nurse reacted made it clear that my body had lived up to the narrative require-ments. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“There is something I have to tell you,” the doctor said. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The new doctor could not come out from San Francisco after they had explained why they needed him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Nya and her mother had taken Akeer to the special place—a big white tent full of people who were sick or hurt, with doctors and nurses to help them. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after Gachet examined him on Sunday, the day before, Vincent asked if he could smoke, and the doctor said yes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And then I’d skip over the part in the hospital when the doctor said, “Hold on, son,” and snapped my thumb back into place. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Too soon doctors would discover and be amazed at the apparent difference in age between his face and his body. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Constantine yelled for one of the restaurant attendants, who came at a run.“Keep her head so,” said the doctor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I’d heard about so-called Mississippi Appendectomies, unnecessary hysterectomies performed on poor black women to stop them from reproducing, and to give young doctors a chance to practice the procedure. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Mama said to ring the doctor round, Mrs. Caruthers is having a fit of some kind!” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I stayed until the ambulance doctor gestured that the Pigman was dead. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“What did the doctor say it was? Not Smallpox, I hope.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her finger at the doctor, wordless for the moment. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I eye my mother, watching her nod eagerly, her short blond bob moving up and down at the doctor’s words. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Because female doctors were not commissioned as army surgeons, Edson worked as a military nurse. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After three weeks, she told her doctor that she was feeling much better and wanted a weekend pass to see her family. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“If you’re the real Roy,” the doctor said, “then who was that young man in the bed, and where did he go? I want the truth.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a straight and proper young man, a new doctor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We need to get you to a doctor.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, after one last doctor’s appointment full of heartrending phrases—low-motility sperm; inhospitable womb; conception likely impossible—they’d decided to adopt. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We took different medications, but we did see the same doctor, which I thought was kind of weird. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The doctor laughed, but stayed with his eye to the door. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Another county heard from,” scoffed one of the doctors indignantly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It takes more people than the sea, doesn’t it, Nat? I wonder if doctors will ever find a way to conquer it—the way they are conquering smallpox?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor turned the dial and looked at his watch. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He’d have known, too, he was raising questions to which even the doctors had no certain answers. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he’s real nice,” said Seven of their local witch doctor. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The doctors were stealing her babies from her, not her former masters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A balding middle-aged doctor gave me the results. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Yes. I would have guessed that,” says the doctor. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“While Dr. Strayer’s opinions will touch upon the ultimate issues of this case, they will not include a conclusion by the doctor that the defendant was negligent.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The doctors were having their weekly board meeting—old business, new business, admissions, dismissals and interviews. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The doctor turns and surveys me through his pince-nez. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“No. Daddy thought you were, though. He didn’t like you, but he thought you could heal better than a doctor.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Matt was alarmed to see the doctor arrive with Felicia’s drink instead of a servant. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one doctor from the original group remained on this team—Dr. Robert Reyburn, a friend whom Bliss sent for from the train station immediately after the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I have two nurses who check in on me, along with the endless round of doctors. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that, the boy heaved himself up, spit in the doctor’s face, and said, “Long live the Führer!” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly and surely the doctors drew their plans to carve up my cranium, move some pieces around, toss away the chunks they didn’t need, and put some new stuff in for good measure. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The doctor cleaned and examined the baby while Joana tended to me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘Oh, I see . The doctor’s expression said, I am so, so sorry. Leo’s heart filled with cement. If he’d harboured any last hopes of avoiding what was to come, they now sank. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"The doctor, eh? You know, I should have put him last of all." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The following morning they received honorary doctor of science degrees for their pioneering spirit. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Please move the knee,” said the bearded doctor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor held a rubber mask attached to a tube in one hand. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She sent Sam in to suggest a visit, but Jody said No. These medical doctors wuz all right with the Godly sick, but they didn’t know a thing about a case like his. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A doctor gave him a strong drug called an emetic, which made him vomit up the ball. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like he was born an adult, a father, a doctor. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The doctor stood now with his head against the door, listening, with Luke holding his arm to keep him from moving. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed M. Dupont apparently guarding them and as I approached, he said: 'Butler, is the doctor here?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

What I wanted to do was to be a doctor and have a nice crib, and a Benz, the whole nine. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got so bad that my mom had to take me to a doctor, and I was held back a grade. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He makes me go in case the doctor has questions because I’m older than Malachy and that means I must have started all the trouble. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"I'm letting go," I whisper to the doctor. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Whether a lawyer, a doctor, a football player, a toilet cleaner, a garbage handler, a panhandler— keep it real and still— be the best you can be. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So, why would the good doctor get into any trouble. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The doctors counseled rest and solitude, but it was a prescription he could not tolerate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He felt himself included once again in the circle of humanity and was expecting from both the doctor and the locksmith, without differentiating between them with any real precision, splendid and surprising results. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor yesterday said it was my liver.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“This is Dr. Snydman, son,” the first doctor said to me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The doctor is here,” the manservant said hurriedly. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys will have to tackle that on your own,” I say, thinking about my doctor’s appointment tomorrow afternoon. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Apparently a surgeon was of a higher status than a doctor. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“He went in for a checkup and the doctor told him he had two months to live. He died two months later.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She willed more strength to her left arm, and she willed the doctor to go faster. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“When the doctor first asked me to do this, I could reach twenty-three. Now it’s eighteen.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I do a nice, loud chest beat, and after a moment the doctor retreats. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The increased light led to my first face-to-face meeting with a witch doctor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recovering from their initial shock, Stanton and Welles realized that there was nothing they could do for the victims: It was in the hands of the doctors and God. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t you go to the doctor when Mom asked you? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I have something to talk about now, Henrietta Lacks what went out of control, how my mother went through all that pain all by her self with those cold hearted doctor. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

—Sir, Dr. Carrothers was the doctor on call tonight, but as I told you, he had a sudden emergency. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hurricane knocked out communications and we couldn’t get a doctor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The anaesthetized area was clearly defined by the patient and after a time the doctor’s fragile delicacy was exhausted and he said it would be better to have an X-ray. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It took four months before doctors diagnosed me with cystic fibrosis. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The new facility included black doctors and nurses on staff at a time when many white hospitals turned them away. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He told the doctor that I was going to be scarred for life because of him, but, by God, I wasn’t the only one who was going to walk out of there scarred. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as my mom said the word “leukemia,” there were doctors, nurses, and technicians swarming all over. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singer, standing at the back of the crowd, was as poorly dressed as the doctor’s daughter was well dressed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, the Weylins may have expected her to go on doctoring the slaves, but the slaves knew better. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But this year we can start over. The school wants me to take you down to the doctor and get you fixed up.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to scream at the doctor then, but the words choked him and he coughed up his own tears and tasted their salt in his mouth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later the doctor came in and asked me to stand on the scale, and I was able to for a few seconds. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor went in and cut out some of her stomach and all of her woman machinery, but Candelario stayed, filling that empty space with spirit. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The doctors said that sending Elsie away was the best thing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The ground would soon become wet, and sleeping in a puddle would be a surefire path to pneumonia, without any hope of a doctor or medications. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That could loosely be translated as “doctors who don’t quite know what they’re doing.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A call for a doctor went out over the loudspeakers: a patient was bleeding in the icu. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am a doctor,” she told her new slave, when they were out of the dealer’s hearing, “and I shall train you to be my nurse.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor placed the rubber mask over her face and turned a dial and I watched Catherine breathing deeply and rapidly. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re still like a pack of children,” the doctor said, smiling too. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors confirmed that, despite their hideous appearance, the wounds were not fatal. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Special assignment: they are to report on this García doctor's comings and goings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Did you see Grandpa? What did the doctor say? Where’s Mom?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They must be the closest thing they have to doctors. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When his cardiologist moved and referred Wilson to another doctor, he was annoyed by what he considered the rudeness of the office staff. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My gesture, in its small way, echoed the larger gesture of the doctors and nurses. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

That could be kept in check with medicine, so the doctor sent me on my way to a final interview with the U.S. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sure, I do. But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn’t really belong to the person that has them.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“And she got so bad she was taken away from you and taken to a hospital at Pawhuska, and she got better immediately under the care of another doctor?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After my mother was arrested in the sweatshop immigration raid, a prison doctor had given her a shot of a drug to keep her calm overnight; That shot, my mother believed, caused Caroline’s condition. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The little doctor is sitting behind his big desk with an anemic-looking roasted bird on a dish in front of him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So the telling goes, the young doctor of Isfahan was summoned to the palace of a great pasha. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We went to the hospital, where a young doctor looked me over and asked me what was wrong. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It does not faze the doctors one bit. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors and nurses at the hospital in Mexico were incredibly kind to me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She will see a doctor, but you must take her with you.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In examining Pollard’s leg, Babcock discovered that the Massachusetts doctors hadn’t managed the setting and rehabilitation of Pollard’s leg properly. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That his intentions were honorable and that he himself was certainly worthy of the doctor’s consideration as a gentleman friend for Miss Foster since, at twenty-five, he was already a colored man of property. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m paying back a bit of debt. My wife fell sick, and we had to pay the doctor and buy medicine.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor thought that was most likely what caused Haupt's heart to act up, but, other than high blood pressure, Dr. Otten thought his heart was all right. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He could kill the doctor more easily than he could talk to him, for all of the doctor’s race spoke to all of Kino’s race as though they were simple animals. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road curves round the stayshun past the clinic, which is Dr. Baldwin and all the crying and moaning men do to doctors when nothing’s really wrong with ’em. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The leg became infected. The doctors had to cut it off to save her life.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You spoke out and kept me awake. I really think you should see a doctor.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here come the doctor with his too serious face. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“May I see the plates again, please, doctor?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every time a different doctor or nurse came into my room to change my blanket or check my eyesight, I handed them the notebook and pointed to the questions about my father. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This was a risky action for a doctor in a town where political action by blacks was rare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the show, one doctor is trying to save this woman’s life but the woman keeps insisting that she has nothing left to live for. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The surgery went well, and when it was over, the doctor was explaining to me how to care for my heel. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he asks me if I’m aware of my diagnosis—because the doctors always leave it to parents to tell us. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“You’re not going to find any doctors on Sunday afternoon. Want to use my car?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The doctors thought he should go to Nairobi Hospital, which is the best private hospital in East. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice the young doctor rode out from Hartford to bleed her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor said, “Steady down. What makes you so interested?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kino nodded, and only then did she let the doctor take the baby. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let the doctors care for him,” he says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once Papa brought home a British doctor who was visiting the hospital. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Three of the doctors were also connected to President Lincoln's assassination. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You do that,” Matt repeated, “and I’ll tell the doctor how you treated El Patron’s clone.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor visited often because of a cough Matt had developed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though traffic delayed his arrival by an hour, the hospital staff and doctors greeted him without being annoyed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Is there a Mrs. Miller?” the doctor asked. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I thought it might be intended for Venus rising from the waves,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After the missionaries come teachers and doctors, bureaucrats and soldiers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No more doctor, and the Underdowns themselves had had to move to Léopoldville to give their boys a shot at proper schooling—if, said Mrs. Underdown, you could even call it that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would run into the room—stealing a few seconds from my step scrubbing—and ask what progress was being made and would learn that the doctors had detected nothing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are simply no doctors and nurses left on that continent. It’s an absolute tragedy! African doctors should stay in Africa.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The exam was painful and made her ashamed, the doctor’s cold attitude doing nothing to ease her discomfort. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember very well,” Eleanor said uncertainly to the doctor. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The leader of these witch doctors said that there was only one way to find a new chief and that this was the way they should use. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And now the doctors are considering putting him in a mental asylum. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There is little commotion, no doctors or nurses scurrying down the halls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But like the Nuremberg Code and the American Medical Association Code of Ethics, which clearly said that doctors should keep patient information confidential, the Hippocratic Oath wasn’t law. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They sat in a small, secluded little waiting room, alone except for my doctor and the Gravedigger. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I could listen to the big radio, but I wasn’t allowed to do anything strenuous, including going outside to play, until I had been cleared by the doctor. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The new doctors all agreed on various tried-and-true medications, and within forty-eight hours of their coming on the case, the King was dead. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mudd also gave Booth the name of a doctor on the Virginia side in case his leg continued to trouble him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within an hour they had taken Alice to the hospital and the doctor had removed from her a tumor almost the size of a newborn child. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The doctors said it was chronic hypothermia, with bad diet and a mild case of pneumonia on top of it; but I don’t know if that accounts for all the hallucinations and mental confusion. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As prudent and thorough as old family doctors, they examined every aspect of the air flowing over the plane, making careful note of the vital signs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, she is alive; and more sensible and collected than she was. The doctor says she may linger a week or two yet; but he hardly thinks she will finally recover.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because all the surgeons had testified that the bullet wound was mortal, Cox said, doctor malpractice was not an issue in determining the defendant's guilt. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then we have to ask my doctor to fax in a prescription. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They put her to bed and summoned a doctor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Lovelace was preparing to release the results of Jerrie's testing at the Space and Naval Congress, which was attended by world experts and aviation doctors. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the young sailor who had brought me to the doctor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The doctors just want to keep an eye on you because of the concussion.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My model of coherent discourse is the original version of the text that I doctored for the opening of the chapter. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The doctor grants all the conditions but one: Vincent cannot leave whenever he wants because he needs to be watched over carefully. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He and his parents were staying with Auggie’s family for a couple of days while they were in the city meeting with doctors at Auggie’s hospital. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I wonder, though, what you would think if some doctor did that to you today. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mudd, thirty-two years old, was a doctor living on a farm with his wife and family. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the German doctor who signed my letter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Annie launched into the entire story, going all the way back to Wednesday when Sean Russell Flaherty stepped on my nuts at rugby practice and I went to the doctor for it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I will be awake, reading,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor told Deborah a second stroke was almost always worse than the first. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor knew what it was as soon as he saw Delphine. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The doctor was a Harvard man, interning at the neighborhood hospital. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor gives her a shot for malaria and tells her that she should be in quarantine for her illness. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was there, after performing a series of blood tests, that the doctor in charge of Bibi’s case, exasperated, concluded that a marriage would cure her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He ordered his men to prepare food and water for a journey and then he set off with his daughter in the direction indicated by the witch doctor. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In 1974, Winnie was charged with violating her banning orders, which restricted her from having any visitors apart from her children and her doctor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Etienne stands squinting in the doorway with his doctor’s notes in his hand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He answered questions about mining, and silly Tarzan questions about witch doctors and wild animals. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A second examination by another doctor did reveal damage to the knee. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

With family money from the doctor’s practice and wise investments, Charles would have enough to support himself and a family quite nicely while he pursued natural history and wrote books. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z