A writer should get as much education as possible but just going to school is not enough if it were all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford and her own mother was a doctor.

The dilemma of modern medicine and the underlying central flaw in medical education and most of all in the training of interns is the irresistible drive to do something anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors in the face of ignorance.

My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.