Walker General Hospital



Walker General Hospital was a large hospital in San Francisco. In 1999 Grace Holloway worked there as a cardiologist. The Doctor was brought there after being shot by a criminal gang. After the Doctor died under anaesthesia and his body disappeared from the morgue, hospital administrator Salinger covered up the incident, prompting Grace to quit. The hospital was particularly significant to the Doctor, as its morgue was the location of his regeneration into his eighth self. The event was apparently traumatic enough that it made the Doctor thereafter uncomfortable in hospitals. (EDA: Legacy of the Daleks, Kursaal; DW: New Earth)

Other known members of staff included surgical nurse Curtis, emergency consultant Dr. Swift, emergency room nurse Wheeler and morgue attendants Pete and Ted. (DW: Doctor Who)

Behind the scenes
The name of the hospital is almost entirely absent from the finished tele-film. Name tags, signage, and other graphics fail to clearly reveal the name of the film's setting for much of the first 30 minutes. Most fans would have gleaned its name, instead, from the novelization or the printed script. In fact, though, the hospital's name does appear in the film in at least one obvious place: the toe-tag the Doctor's wearing throughout his regeneration cycle.