Sentence examples for duties doctors from inspiring English sources

Derby knew that his "attacks of illness would, at no distant period, incapacitate me from the discharge of my public duties"; doctors had warned him that his health required his resignation from office.

Off-duty doctors and nurses were asked to come to work; routine operations were postponed.

Off-duty doctors across Berlin were being brought in to help treat the wounded.

But how many off-duty doctors would feel compelled to alert strangers to symptoms they spot?

In radio broadcasts, the health ministry summoned off-duty doctors and called on residents to donate blood.

Phone lines were knocked out, and the emergency services used local radio stations to appeal for off-duty doctors and nurses to report in to help.

Dr. Maroof Samar, a surgeon at a government hospital, said, "The hospital is overwhelmed by dead and wounded bodies; all off-duty doctors were called in".

Ambulances with sirens wailing flooded a nearby hospital, where off-duty doctors and nurses ran in to help the 40 people who were wounded.

On a typical day the hospital's five on-duty doctors and 30 nurses see 170 people, about a quarter of whom are still living in temporary housing.

The wounded have been sent to 10 hospitals across the city, with off-duty doctors and nurses called in on Friday night to help deal with the emergency.

One doctor said operations would be going on through the night with many of the injured in a life-threatening state so off-duty doctors across Berlin were being brought in.