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Having read the book , it was interesting to see it transferred to the small screen . Very gritty showing how hard worked junior medics are . Very realistic , showing almost in full graphic details , a birth , and missing a simple diagnosis , lead to a pre term baby being delivered by caesarean .
I wonder if there is a mood afoot by TV producers to highlight failings in the NHS , There a couple of hospital soaps that are focusing on lack of funds and staff discontent .
Having read the book , it was interesting to see it transferred to the small screen . Very gritty showing how hard worked junior medics are . Very realistic , showing almost in full graphic details , a birth , and missing a simple diagnosis , lead to a pre term baby being delivered by caesarean .
I wonder if there is a mood afoot by TV producers to highlight failings in the NHS , There a couple of hospital soaps that are focusing on lack of funds and staff discontent .
I watched that too, and it was pretty interesting, albeit a little bit depressing. I know what you mean about highlighting trouble inside hospitals, I've been watching "Holby City" for it's final series and I wasn't sure whether they're trying to make a political point or just building up the end.
I read the book a couple of years ago (lent by a mate who worked as a nurse in Broadmoor for 30 years so he has his own stories...) and really enjoyed it.
I watched the first part of the TV series and then binged all the other episodes via BBC's IPlayer yesterday when I got home from having chemo (seemed appropriate) - there are a few laughs but a lot of the darker side of working in the NHS and what they have to cope with. I work with a lady whose eldest son qualified as a doctor literally as the pandemic started and was thrown into the deep end of that which can't have been easy.
Stick with it but don't expect a happy ending.
I watched the first part of the TV series and then binged all the other episodes via BBC's IPlayer yesterday when I got home from having chemo (seemed appropriate) - there are a few laughs but a lot of the darker side of working in the NHS and what they have to cope with. I work with a lady whose eldest son qualified as a doctor literally as the pandemic started and was thrown into the deep end of that which can't have been easy.
Stick with it but don't expect a happy ending.
Watched the series over the last couple of days & despite its 'comedy-drama' billing, thought- for bad or for good- it was the most realistic NHS depiction there's yet been in a tv hospital-drama. The raw, visceral depiction of make-do-&-cope chronic NHS underfunding, under-staffing, staff mental-health issues & PTSD all struck a chord - as did the ostentatious facade of Private Health crumbling as it ultimately necessitates being bailed out by the lowly NHS!
Thought Ben Whishaw & Ambika Mod were excellent & there were just about enough laughs to offset- at least partially- the general melancholy.
Thought Ben Whishaw & Ambika Mod were excellent & there were just about enough laughs to offset- at least partially- the general melancholy.
Filmed at Ealing Hospital. They close the maternity wing and turn it into a film set..... https://www.nursingtimes.net/roles/midwives-and-ne...
Read the book, watched the program.
Brought back far too many memories of O&G and paeds in the 80s. 1 in 3 with inclusive cover rotas (if you did them you'll know the jargon), bleary eyed episiotomy repairs at 04.00, "don't think you're going to bed, there's another two to do", intubation of flat babies when you are the only one there, reg in different hospital.
When I say brought back memories, they weren't good ones, akin to veterans watching the start of Private Ryan. Too close to the reality...
Brought back far too many memories of O&G and paeds in the 80s. 1 in 3 with inclusive cover rotas (if you did them you'll know the jargon), bleary eyed episiotomy repairs at 04.00, "don't think you're going to bed, there's another two to do", intubation of flat babies when you are the only one there, reg in different hospital.
When I say brought back memories, they weren't good ones, akin to veterans watching the start of Private Ryan. Too close to the reality...
babelfish said:
Filmed at Ealing Hospital. They close the maternity wing and turn it into a film set..... https://www.nursingtimes.net/roles/midwives-and-ne...
There's some irony in that I think.I've mixed feelings about Adam Kay but I thought this was very good. Acting by the main man and the female doctor was spot on. It was well done enough to make you care about the characters which ultimately proved rather moving.
I'm a few in and enjoying it, for what it is, which is hard to believe really. I say that as someone who spent a week in a London hospital with a baby in ICU in 2020. And the doctors and staff were amazing.
What I wondered was about the main man, who you all probably know is also Q in James Bond of recent times, his character in both is almost the same, very quick witted and fast talking, is that how the book is written, or has Ben Whishaw just been a big part of the script as it comes very naturally to him to seems to be that way.
What I wondered was about the main man, who you all probably know is also Q in James Bond of recent times, his character in both is almost the same, very quick witted and fast talking, is that how the book is written, or has Ben Whishaw just been a big part of the script as it comes very naturally to him to seems to be that way.
Liking this. Read the book when eldest was wanting to study medicine.
Luckily she failed her As and now works in a bar and loving it for the mo.
I reckon the prosthetics are borrowed from another gritty series set in an O&G ward called Bodies, written by Line of Duty pensmith Jed Mercurio back in 2004.
Luckily she failed her As and now works in a bar and loving it for the mo.
I reckon the prosthetics are borrowed from another gritty series set in an O&G ward called Bodies, written by Line of Duty pensmith Jed Mercurio back in 2004.
Bone Rat said:
Read the book, watched the program.
Brought back far too many memories of O&G and paeds in the 80s. 1 in 3 with inclusive cover rotas (if you did them you'll know the jargon), bleary eyed episiotomy repairs at 04.00, "don't think you're going to bed, there's another two to do", intubation of flat babies when you are the only one there, reg in different hospital.
When I say brought back memories, they weren't good ones, akin to veterans watching the start of Private Ryan. Too close to the reality...
the exact same for meBrought back far too many memories of O&G and paeds in the 80s. 1 in 3 with inclusive cover rotas (if you did them you'll know the jargon), bleary eyed episiotomy repairs at 04.00, "don't think you're going to bed, there's another two to do", intubation of flat babies when you are the only one there, reg in different hospital.
When I say brought back memories, they weren't good ones, akin to veterans watching the start of Private Ryan. Too close to the reality...
worked in ealing caused flashbacks of working and living there (last hospital I lived in) even to the point of the stairwell and the paintings on the wall
I think how bands should be forced to watch spinal tap, potential medical students should be forced to watch this, because although things may look better, it's the same story too many patients, not enough staff, not enough resources, money wasted on crap. That and the fatigue ( yes shifts now rather than on call, but it means spending your life jet lagged), the comments about how your partners will always come second to medicine.
watching it has made me reflect a lot about what I do, both the highs and the lows
it is not much better today, looks better on the surface but they're better at hiding it, that kind of old boy consultants have now been replaced by managers (direct induction or ex nurses who didn't like the antisocial hours), the private hospitals aren't as plush ( but still dangerously under resourced in the things that count and hand things off to the nhs)
an ex phoned me and said she understood more now about me after watching in then she had in the years of dating
for those interested the docs are still killing themselves as well as dying when driving home and falling asleep behind the wheel over longer and longer distances
yes it was never meant to be easy, but how nothing has been done in all this time is a disgrace
Very good so far.
Have read (and loved) the book so was a bit nervous about the on-screen adaptation, but seems to do it justice so far
The book should be used as some kind of framework to address the issues with the NHS, and Adam Kay should be made Chief Exec of the NHS with total omnipotence.
Have read (and loved) the book so was a bit nervous about the on-screen adaptation, but seems to do it justice so far
The book should be used as some kind of framework to address the issues with the NHS, and Adam Kay should be made Chief Exec of the NHS with total omnipotence.
okgo said:
What I wondered was about the main man, who you all probably know is also Q in James Bond of recent times,.
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