Dr. Villalobos Character Analysis in The Circle

Dr. Villalobos is Mae’s doctor at the Circle. She is beautiful and she loves being on camera, but her medical knowledge and ethics become suspect as she treats Mae based on comments from Mae’s watchers and she constantly violates doctor-patient confidentiality by offering up Mae’s medical information while livestreaming to Mae’s viewers.

Dr. Villalobos Quotes in The Circle

The The Circle quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Villalobos or refer to Dr. Villalobos. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Vintage edition of The Circle published in 2014.

"Okay. Can you drink this?" The doctor handed Mae the dense green liquid she'd been preparing. "It's a smoothie."
Mae drank it down. It was viscous and cold.
"Okay, you just ingested the sensor that will connect to your wrist monitor. It was in that glass." The doctor punched Mae's shoulder playfully. "I love doing that."

Related Characters: (speaker),

Page Number and Citation: 155

Explanation and Analysis:

Dr. Villalobos Character Timeline in The Circle

The timeline below shows where the character Dr. Villalobos appears in The Circle. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...and goes to the Circle clinic. There, a strikingly beautiful woman, who introduces herself as Dr. Villalobos , informs Mae that the Circle values healthy bodies and minds. As such, Circle employees... (full context)

Dr. Villalobos asks Mae a series of medical questions. When she asks if Mae’s parents’ health is... (full context)

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Mae remembers that she has to see Dr. Villalobos in ten minutes. Suddenly, she sees Annie walking by in the distance and calls after... (full context)

Mae walks to Dr. Villalobos . Because she’s so beautiful, Dr. Villalobos has become popular with Mae’s watchers, and Villalobos... (full context)

Dr. Villalobos next tells Mae that there’s a problem with her parents. The Circle has installed cameras... (full context)

...at Annie. Annie, Mae remembers, collapsed at her desk and fell into a coma. Afterwards. Dr. Villalobos concluded that Annie’s coma was probably caused by exhaustion or stress. Doctors are confident that... (full context)