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Hospital

Hospitals were places of work in which employees (including doctors, nurses and administrative staff) sought to heal temporary residents, damaged organic life called "patients". These institutions varied greatly in character. Some were small and make-shift — as on battlefields during time of war. Others were imposing, solid buildings with long histories of general care. Not a few specialized in particular kinds of medical care, like mental health. Still others gave themselves over to medical research, in which those admitted were more "subject" than "patient".

Perhaps because of the Doctor's outlook on life — not to mention his very name — many of the more important events in his life took place in hospitals. It was not uncommon for his own regeneration, injury to his companion or the presence of alien menace to land him in a hospital. Similarly, the Torchwood 3 team — and, to a lesser extent, Sarah Jane Smith and Mr Smith — monitored the pattern of hospital admissions for any sign of threat to Earth.

The Doctor

Post-regeneration

As patient

Opinions about hospitals

The Doctor has sometimes expressed strong views about hospitals. In particular, the Eighth Doctor has expressed an aversion for hospitals, arising from his regeneration in Walker General Hospital in San Francisco. (EDA: Legacy of the Daleks, Kursaal) The Tenth Doctor seemed to have no particular problems with hospitals, but said that he liked them to have little gift shops, as they clearly indicated where the hospital exit was. (DW: New Earth, Smith and Jones, Silence in the Library)

Companions

As part of staff

As patient

As setting for alien incursion

The Doctor

Torchwood 3

Sarah Jane Smith

named

Mental Institutions

  • Hawkswick Hall, North Yorkshire, a military mental hospital giving care to shell-shocked soldiers in the aftermath of their World War I service. (EDA: Casualties of War)
  • The Retreat was a progressive psychiatric institution in the late 20th century which inhabited the same grounds as a 19th-early 20th century asylum, known as Mausolus House. In the late 20th century, the The Doctor, Trix and Fitz investigated the history of the place, and discovered that the original structure had burned in a massive fire in 1903. While conducting this research, the Doctor also posed as Dr. John Smith, and provided guidance to a suicidal patient called Laska. He believed her mental problems — and those of the other patients — were being greatly emphasized by he Sholem-Luz, time-sensitives who directly fed off mental anguish. The Doctor helped Laska break free of Sholem-Luz control by luring the Sholem-Luz back through the time tunnels they had created to the exact time and place of the fire which destroyed the original structure. Unfortunately, he could only accomplish this without the TARDIS. Stranded, the Doctor had no choice but to "wait" a century until he caught up with himself. Thus, in a move reminiscent of something Captain Jack Harkness would do, the Doctor allowed himself to sleep through the rest of the 20th century in a sarcophagus in the chapel on the grounds of the mental institution. In a sense, then, The Retreat was the site of the Doctor's longest-known stay in hospital. (EDA: The Sleep of Reason)
  • Bedlam Royal Hospital (DW: The Shakespeare Code)
  • an unnamed mental hospital in (PDA: The Suns of Caresh) (Third Doctor)
  • an Digby York Hospital in West Sussex to which Clement MacDonald was committed at some point following his initial encounter with the 456. (TW: Children of Earth)
  • St. Sebastian's Home for the Insane, an institution to which the only witness to Harry Sullivan's death, albeit in a probably alternate time line, was committed. (PDA: Wolfsbane)
  • A mental hospital within walking distance of a tube station housed patients of interest to two incarnations of the Doctor. Ace once went there to visit Judith Winters, a girl who had been turned into the Black Dalek during the Shoreditch Incident. At the time of the visit, Winters had been committed there for over 25 years. (DWM: "In the Community") A Time Lord named Roche was also institutionalized there. In search of answers about a recently-created time fracture, and the mysterious appearance of an alien named Troy Game on Earth, Jo Grant tried to visit him. However, he immediately pushed her back through time 30 minutes as soon as she introduced herself. Undeterred, she returned to the hospital, this time with Troy Game. As soon as the two entered Roche's room, he telepathically instructed Troy Game to bring his TARDIS to him so he could escape, and Jo was again drawn away from asking Roche any revelatory questions. Both of Jo's trips to the mental hospital, it turned out, were heavily influenced by Roche's struggle with a Hunter Fury, a time vortex-dweller which had gotten out via the time fracture. (PDA: The Suns of Caresh)

Rest homes

Mrs. Gribbins was in charge of Lavender Lawns rest homes and was working with the Gorgons. (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon)

Medical research facilities

unnamed

TARDIS

The Doctor's TARDIS itself is said to have its own hospital ward. (NA: Sanctuary)

Military hospitals

(possibly set a whole section about this, or just about UNIT. The Doctor and Captain Jack have both had several encounter with emergency aid stations in times of war/military service.) Various UNIT bases possessed at least rudimentary sick bays. The Doctor was taken to one immediately after his regeneration into his fourth body (DW: Robot), while Majenta Pryce and the Tenth Doctor would later examine mysteriously-aged patients at UNIT's underwater base in Australia. (DWM: "The Age of Ice")

fictional

Channel 400 on the planet Blinni-Gaar broadcast what was likely a soap opera set in the titular Ogron Hospital. (PDA: Prime Time)

Behind the Scenes

Real life hospitals have proven popular filming locations.