Holby City (TV Series)

The Long and Winding Road (2007)

Peter Wingfield: Dan Clifford

Quotes 

• [Carry Akroyd is a journalist who reviews restaurants. She is morbidly obese because she cannot stop eating] 

  Dan Clifford : Try reviewing sushi bars.

  Carry Akroyd : Japanese? D'you think if they lift the whaling ban, they might serve me a whole one?

• [discussing an operation to fit a gastric band to reduce Carry Akroyd's appetite] 

  Carry Akroyd : Can I choose which colour band I get? I have survived temptation by malted drink, sandwich box and macaroni cheese.

  Dan Clifford : Sorry, the gastric band is off.

  Carry Akroyd : Scuse me? This is a hospital, not a restaurant.

  Dan Clifford : The patient I was going to bump has become an emergency.

  Carry Akroyd : What about the juggling? Dropped the balls, have we?

  Dan Clifford : I haven't dropped anything.

  Carry Akroyd : Or maybe you never had any in the first place.

  Dan Clifford : I can't do it, OK. We'd need enough anesthetic to knock out a hippo.

  Carry Akroyd : [plaintively]  I've been starving myself.

  Dan Clifford : Well don't stop now. In another decade or two you might be somewhere near normal.