BBC2 - Hospital

[The Mad Monk]

Hospital on BBC2.

Last night - Thursday 27th February was in the operating theatre in a Liverpool hospital.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08w8ktc

81 year old man with heart problem. He was told - you can't carry on with this condition, you can't go back. The only option is to have the surgery, which is very risky, so he had the surgery........

A woman with a hole in her heart, found that her particular condition was inoperable when she was opened up.....

[Swervin_Mervin]

The Mad Monk said:

Hospital on BBC2.
A woman with a hole in her heart, found that her particular condition was inoperable when she was opened up.....

Not quite. She was told that she couldn't have it done via keyhole surgery, and would have to be opened up. She was being scheduled to go back in.

It's an incredible series to watch. This series so far not as good as the last, but the situation with the older guy last night was a toughie. Last series was immense, particularly showing them doing some of the most incredibly intricate surgery over many, many hours - the unfortunate lady with the aggressive tumour around her brain stem in particular springs to mind, and the one where they were operating on a guy's face and trying to stitch together blood vessels that were incredibly small.

It's a real eye-opener.

[Randy Winkman]

Thanks both. I've ignored it until now but will have a look.

[nursejackie]

I am an NHS nurse and it's so refreshing to show life for NHS frontline staff, warts and all. The NHS and the government gets a lot of grief, but let me ask:

Are you looking after your health? Or are you abusing your body and expecting the NHS to fix it?
Do you cancel your appointments or just not turn up?
Do you take all the medications you get on prescription or is it the cupboard, or bin?
Do you ring an ambulance for a minor ailment just for a free lift to hospital?

I could go on and on.

We all have a responsibility to keep the NHS viable for the future, more money is not the long term answer.