The Day at the Doctors (comic story)

	Twelfth Doctor
	Clara
	New Hippocrates
	Titan Comics
	Colin Bell
	Neil Slorance
	12DY2 4
	6 April 2016
	Late April 2016
	Comic, 2 pages
DW12 backup comic stories
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The Day at the Doctors was a Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor backup comic strip published in 2016

Plot

The Doctor and Clara pay a visit to New Hippocrates, the hospital planet. The Doctor is sick, but Clara believes it's just a cold. They wait around in the hospital waiting room for quite a while, even trying to jump ahead in the TARDIS to no avail. Finally, the Doctor gets to meet the doctor, who informs him he has a cold.

Characters

• Twelfth Doctor
• Clara Oswald
• Colony Sarff

References

• New Hippocrates is the hospital that is a planet, or the planet that is a hospital.
• The Doctor tries to introduce himself as The Oncoming Storm, but is interrupted by a sneeze.
• The doctor at the hospital is a Vinvocci.
• The Doctor and Clara have recently been in an icy adventure involving Ice Warriors, Yeti, and penguins.

Notes

• The title is a reference to The Day of the Doctor.

Original print details

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor recalls many of the causes of his regeneration in the past: crashing a spaceship into Karn, (TV: The Night of the Doctor) radiation poisoning twice, (TV: Planet of the Spiders, The End of Time) a really big fall (TV: Logopolis) and spectrox toxaemia. (TV: The Caves of Androzani)