Operating Theater Enthusiast Gifts

'Our interns work extremely long hours. The harness will help keep them awake during your operation.'

'Notice how I stare at the forms like I'm actually reading them... and generally moving very slowly so I'm a little further behind schedule as the day progresses.'

'I've a horrible feeling I've left one of the implements inside the patient, Chang.'

The Surgeon Finds the Source of the Problem

"Just be yourself."

Benedict Cumberbatch

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

'Is there another doctor in the house? He wants a second opinion.'

"Aristophanes explains comedy"

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

'Hamlet'

Women's Bonnets Block the Audience View

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."

Anthropologists discover the earliest known depiction of Jazz Hands.

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

Applause. Clap clap bravo. Spring musical. Cats. You were terrific! Our little girl!

"Out damn Spot

'Maybe it is psychosomatic.'

"When I grow up, I want to become president and eventually the subject of a groundbreaking, critically-acclaimed Broadway musical."

Taking a peek at the audience

"Toi Toi Toi!"

Silly wig.

Applause

'I was an egg in the Easter play.'

"Bravo!"

Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty HMS Pinafore

"It's a play on words."

'I asked Will if he wrote it. He said he wasn't sure.'

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

'I've got two tickets to Handel's Messiah -- What time do you get off work?'

'Every new year Gym membership goes up - for the Panto season.'

To read or not to read?

Shakespeare places his works in 'To Be' or 'Not To Be'.

"So besides opera and lurking, what do you do to relax?"