Here’s one for the Doc Martin fans.

I noticed this trivia question on the WETA website:

If you’re nerdy enough to have bothered to track down this website, you’ll probably know that the correct answer is Doctor Sim.  Doc Martin is frequently compared – unfavourably – with good old Doctor Sim, and it drives him mad.

Doctor Thomas Sim was a real doctor – our family GP in Ryde on the Isle of Wight – who saved my life in 1976.  I had ruptured my spleen in an accident in the gym at school.  I was x-rayed but the rupture was not diagnosed, and I was sent home.  Doctor Sim was good enough to come out in the night, and recognised my symptoms immediately.  You don’t live long with a ruptured spleen.  I was rushed back to hospital, in the nick of time… and survived to tell the tale that is Doc Martin.  Doctor Sim is gratefully remembered.

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