" He, too, has become a noted writer of his own high-profile television drama programmes, including Queer as Folk and the 2005 revival of Doctor Who.

* The Doctor Who serial State of Decay features a vampire named Camilla who in a brief but explicit moment finds much to ' admire ' in the Doctor's female travelling companion Romana who finds she has to turn away from the vampire's intense gaze.

has gradually become less common and studies outside theology and medicine have become more common ( such studies were then called " philosophy ", but are now classified as sciences and humanities – however this usage survives in the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ).

Throughout much of the academic world, the term " doctor " refers to an individual who has earned a degree of Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. D. ( an abbreviation for the Latin Philosophiæ Doctor ; or alternatively Doctor philosophiæ, D. Phil., meaning Teacher of Philosophy ), or other research doctorate such as the Doctor of Science, or Sc. D.

In contrast to other academic titles ( Professor, Associate Professor and Assistance Professor ), the use of Doctor as a title has not been recognized by the Royal Institute of Thailand.

In the Fifth Doctor story Resurrection of the Daleks, a small Dalek force aided by human mercenaries and Dalek duplicates liberates Davros ( now played by Terry Molloy, with a new mask designed by Stan Mitchell ) from his space station prison, needing his expertise to find an antidote for a Movellan-created virus that has all but wiped them out.

" The Doctor initially assumes Davros's personality has been totally subsumed, but in the later strip " Emperor of the Daleks " (# 197-202 ) this Emperor is shown as a different entity from Davros.

The Curse of Davros begins with Davros and the Daleks working together to try and alter the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo using technology that Davros has created that allows him to swap peoples ' minds, with matters becoming more complicated when the Sixth Doctor uses the device to swap bodies with Davros in an attempt to subvert the Daleks ' plans from the inside.

By the time of the Eighth Doctor audio play Terror Firma ( set after Remembrance ), Davros is commanding a Dalek army which has successfully conquered the Earth.

He has been declared a Doctor of the Church in Roman Catholicism.

These suspicions are later borne out in " Utopia " ( 2007 ), when the Tenth Doctor discovers that the renegade Time Lord the Master has survived the Time War and has been living in human form in the year 100 trillion, at the end of the material universe, a point so far forward in time that no Time Lord has ever travelled there.

The Doctor was loomed in the House of Lungbarrow in the mountains of South Gallifrey, but unique among the house's cousins he has a belly button ( Lungbarrow suggests this is because he is a re-incarnation of The Other, but later BBC books featuring the Eighth Doctor suggest he actually has a Gallifreyan father and human mother as stated in the 1996 telemovie ).

However, it has been argued that anti-Semitic themes continued, especially in the depiction of Tintin's enemy Rastapopoulos in the post-war Flight 714, though other writers argue against this, pointing out the way that Rastapopoulos surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine ( or u-boat ) commander of The Red Sea Sharks ; Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official, and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

Recently, Doctor Doom has returned from Hell, and has retaken the reins of Latveria.

Dreadknight has since tried to get revenge on Doctor Doom only to be thwarted by various superheroes.

However, his role in the massacre has permanently ruined his public image and thanks to the machinations of Doctor Sivana, he has lost most of his wealth and all of his control over his newly reformed LexCorp, which is now being run by Lana Lang.

* The tapes for the revival of BBC show Doctor Who were labeled with the anagram Torchwood, which later went on to be used as the name for a spin-off show.

Ring modulation, also known as amplitude modulation, is an effect made famous by Doctor Who's Daleks and commonly used throughout sci-fi.

Charles reads Carter's memories and discovers that when the two were children they were used as test subjects by Nathan Milbury of the Black Womb Project, with the approval of Charles ' father, Doctor Brian Xavier.

In the legal profession, graduates of almost all Canadian law schools receive the LLB degree and are not referred to as " doctor " ( in a growing number of Canadian law schools the degree of Juris Doctor is conferred, but the title is not used in practice ).

The most common is filosofian tohtori / filosofie doktor ( Doctor of Philosophy ), but more specializations are used than in English ( for example, tekniikan tohtori / teknologie doktor " Doctor of Science in Technology ").

In Hungary the title of Doctor used to become a part of the name and was added as such to personal ID documents.

It confers the title of Doctor, which in Malta is rigorously used to address a holder of the degree.

or Dr. is also used for the Homeopathic Doctors as per 1965 Act of the Government of Pakistan. in 2011 Pharmacy Council of Pakistan Approved Dr. title for PharmD ( Doctor of Pharmacy ) Graduate which is 5-Years degree ( Department of Pharmacy University of Peshawar ). The Physical therapist holding Doctor of Physical therapy ( DPT ) can also write prefix Dr. before their names.

In the United States, the title Doctor is commonly used professionally by those who have earned a doctorate-level degree.

* In some regions, such as the Southern United States, " Doctor " is traditionally added to the first name of people holding doctorates, where it is used in either direct or indirect familiar address.

The Doctor V64 ( also referred to simply as the V64 ) is a development and backup device made by Bung Enterprises Ltd that is used in conjunction with the Nintendo 64.

The Doctor V64 could be used to read the data from a game cartridge and transfer the data to a PC via the parallel port.

* Node, a cyborg with a donated human face used as a guide, in " Silence in the Library " ( Doctor Who )

* In Doctor Who ( 1963 ), neutronium is a substance which can shield spaces from time-shear when used as shielding in time-vessels.

For example, in Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, created by Russell T Davies, a drug used to erase the memory of characters is called " retcon "; the use of the drug is often referred to by characters as " retconning ".

After her escape from the Vidiians the Klingon Torres suffered a fatal wound from the Vidiian energy weapon and died, but the Doctor used her DNA to restore the human Torres to her original half-human half-Klingon state.

It is a multifunctional tool used by The Doctor.

Not all iterations of the Doctor have used the sonic on screen ; the Fifth Doctor in fact opted not to replace his after it was destroyed.

It was used thereafter by the Second Doctor as a multi-purpose tool, with occasional variations in appearance over the course of the series.

It is possible that the screwdriver had appeared before Fury from the Deep without the Doctor referring to it by that name: the prop used there appears to be one used by the Doctor in many earlier stories, including the First Doctor's sabotage of Dalek equipment as early as the second serial.

In the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and other areas whose cultures were recently linked to the UK, the title Doctor generally applies in both the academic and clinical fields.

Physicians, on the other hand, when they pass their " MRCP " examinations, which enable them to become members of the Royal College of Physicians, do not drop the " Doctor " prefix and remain Doctor, even when they are consultants.

Unlike other countries, Spain registers a comparatively small number of Doctor degree holders.

* In Roman Catholicism and several other Christian denominations, a Doctor of the Church is an eminent theologian ( for example, Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelic Doctor ) from whose teachings the whole Church is held to have derived great advantage.

This workshop was also responsible for the theme to the TV series Doctor Who, a piece, largely created by Delia Derbyshire, that more than any other ensured the popularity of electronic music in the UK.

Many other examples of this like The Country Doctor ( 1908 ) can easily be found in his work.

Somewhere on Gallifrey there is also an institute called the Academy, which the Doctor and various other Time Lords have attended.

It is suggested that other Time Lords might have survived the war when the Face of Boe utters its final words to the Doctor: " Know this, Time Lord: you are not alone " (" Gridlock ").

Of the value of £ 100 each, one relates to the safe arrival of Hayman's ship in Guyana and the other is in regard to " one hundred pounds assured by the said Doctor Arthur Ducke on my life ".

In the Marvel Zombies storyline, Latveria is one of the last few outposts of humanity, as Doctor Doom gathers up the fittest and most fertile of the Latverian survivors in order to send them off to other dimensions.

Many pagans in North America encounter the movement through their involvement in other hobbies ; particularly popular with U. S. Pagans are " golden age "- type pastimes such as the Society for Creative Anachronism ( SCA ), Star Trek fandom, Doctor Who fandom and comic book fandom.

The adverse drug reaction profile of ciprofloxacin and other fluoroquinolone drugs has spawned a grass-roots movement of those so affected to lobby for black box warnings and Dear Doctor letters, as well as the petitioning of the FDA for the removal of some fluoroquinolone drugs from clinical practice.

Attempting to develop a realistic personality, the Doctor not only manufactured a holographic family, he had an increasing number of other " human " experiences.

When the Doctor later discovered clues as to what had happened, Captain Janeway was convinced by him and others that he had a right to learn to come to grips with the guilt in the manner of any other sentient being rather than be treated merely as a defective piece of equipment.

Doctor Beverly Crusher activates him, albeit reluctantly, as a means of distracting the Borg, while she and other crew members escape from the besieged sickbay.

He replies, " I'm a doctor, not a doorstop ", an homage to Doctor McCoy's catchphrase line " I'm a doctor, not a ..." ( The Doctor also made this reference several other times, on Voyager.