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.