#dr.bell

[em-miyy]

I LOVE DR. BELL

[negotiationofmeaning]

I’m sorry Matt, but Bruce is just too great as an actor and adorable, I can’t stop rooting for him...Bell is everything...

[matokii95]

I want more "The resident" Fanfics.

Is it too much to ask?

[vikinghunny]

Dr. Bell is Alive and Well Everybody has a favorite teacher. Artie Doyle had a favorite teacher. Artie Doyle was a medical student. First year med school, he had a favorite teacher … a professor named Bell. Dr. Bell must have been a fascinating instructor, because Artie remembered him all his life. In fact, that’s how we know about Dr. Bell. From Artie. The thing that made Dr. Joseph Bell so interesting was the way he taught. It was so special that he kept students on the edge of their seats. Joseph Bell had started at the bottom as a hospital attendant and wound up head of the Edinburgh University medical school. If you knew Dr. Bell, you’d say he made it because he knew how to think. That’s what he was always telling his students: You’ve got to learn how to think or all you know won’t get you anywhere. Bell used to demonstrate this to his students. He had an outpatient facility where he interviewed patients, and sometimes he would invite his class to join him there. He’d have them stand around and watch while these new patients came in to see the doctor. The stories make Bell sound a lot like Dr. Gillespie, squinting over his glasses and intimidating his patients with a childishly wicked expression. Then he’d say something like, “Oh, you must be either a cork cutter or a slater!” The startled patient would acknowledge that he was, in fact, a slater. Dr. Bell would then turn to his class and wink. He had observed a slight callus on one side of the forefinger and a little thickening on the outside of the thumb. For observant Bell that was enough to identify the trade of his patient. Another time, Dr. Bell turned to his class immediately before interviewing a patient. “This man’s a cobbler,” he told them. And he was right. Bell had caught a glimpse of the man’s trousers. There were worn at the inside of the knee … right where the cobbler’s lapstone sits. Now, you say this doesn’t sound much like medicine. But what Dr. Bell was trying to impress upon his students … what he was trying to cultivate in them … was the power of observation. You must notice everything, he told them. A good doctor has to notice everything! Still another time, Dr. Bell told a brand-new patient that he, the patient, was not long discharged from the Army. Bell had no readily obvious way of knowing this. The man was wearing street clothes. But Dr. Bell went on to say that the patient had been a non-com officer in a Highland regiment, and that he had been stationed at Barbados! Dr. Bell was right on all counts. It was very simple, he explained to his students. The man was respectful but did not remove his hat. They do not in the Army; but he would have learned civilian ways had he been long discharged. He had an air of authority, was obviously Scottish. As to Barbados, his complaint was elephantiasis, which is West Indian and not British. And to Dr. Bell’s students, something else was obvious … that for Dr. Bell medicine was sort of, well … detective work. It’s not a matter of coincidence that complicated mystery stories also fascinated him. So it was the way he thought and the way he taught that kept his students spellbound. I’m thinking, however, about Artie Doyle, the first-year med student who sat enraptured in the back of Bell’s class. Artie would go on to become a doctor. Yet you will know him better for another talent. Artie also became a writer … and though the medicine he learned from Dr. Bell was significant, his professor’s power of inductive reasoning was even more so. Artie immortalized it, and him, in a character the world can never forget. Because Artie one day became Sir Arthur. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. And because one classmate remembered him so well … Dr. Bell is even yet alive and well … a hundred years later and living in literary history forever as the greatest-ever criminal diagnostician. It was Dr. Bell who was the author’s model for the master sleuth of all time … Sherlock Holmes.

Paul Harvey's The Rest of The Story

by Paul Harvey, Jr. 

Copyright © 1977 by Paulynne, Inc.

[poltergeist-writer]

'A maioria das pessoas vêem, mas não sabem observar', dizia o Dr. Bell aos seus convivas. 'Olhando de relance um indivíduo, a gente pode identificar-lhe o país de origem por suas feições; pelas mãos, a profissão e os meios de vida; e o resto da sua história é revelado pelo modo de andar, os maneirismos, os berloques do relógio, e até os fiapos que aderem às suas roupas.'

Inspiração para a Criação de Sherlock Holmes, (via poltergeist-writer)