by Mark Nobes, chief editor
The single was penned by band members Alannah Currie, Tom Bailey and Joe Leeway, and was produced by Bailey and Alex Sadkin.
The B-side was "Nurse Shark" on both the 7" and 12" vinyl singles. The 12 inch featured an extended version (7:50) of "Doctor! Doctor".
The single reached No.11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S., and reached No.12 in Canada and New Zealand. It was also a top 20 hit in Germany, Poland and Switzerland.
The video was directed by Dieter 'Dee' Trattmann and to be honest, the low-budget set looks like it was created for Doctor Who, with a fake, moonlit sky and the use of dry ice to create a low mist. It opens in a very melancholic fashion, with a bright full moon set low in the sky against broken clouds. Tom Bailey is in the foreground singing the eerie intro "I saw him there, just standing there...". The rest of the band are in the background.
The drum track kicks in at around 48 seconds, and we see a female ice skater twirl against the full moon. The other band members also begin to move around in a circular motion. There is also a male ice skater and other people begin to appear from behind blocks. The rest of the video switches between the band playing their instruments or moving artistically, to the other dancers and people. It's all very arty, but I kind of lost interest half way through. Thank goodness the song is a decent one, at least!
Despite Tom Bailey's dad being a doctor, the lyrics are not referring to him whatsoever. They are actually describing love as being like a medical condition, and compare the feeling you get inside your body to that of a kind of sickness, as in the lines "Can't you see I'm burning, burning" and "Is this love I'm feeling?".
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