Wow, thank you so much. We did our absolute best to make the episode as authentic as possible (and safe to shoot) and to honour our NHS heroes. Thank you. Steve Hughes (director of the episode)
It really shows; you and the team did a brilliant job... The attention to detail, the number of stories you weaved together and giving a peak into the medicine too; it was so well done. And thank you for the comment too, appreciate that!
I'm a porter in an NHS porter, and we weren't allocated or allowed to wear masks in the early days, and I subsequently ended up in ICU as a COVID19 patient. The rules and regs changed on a daily basis, and many staff were exposed .... not just the clinical staff.
He's seen a lot. I have more and more respect for you, Dr. Hope, and for all your colleagues, in the UK and across the world. I hope to never again take for granted the doctors in our world
For those who don’t follow the casualty story line , at 4:58 when Fenisha ( paramedic) asked to take time off to self isolate , she didn’t ask to leave because of respiratory issues. The paramedic was pregnant but she wanted to keep it secret. I love these videos ❤️
I can't imagine what you and your colleagues have been through with the pandemic. I deeply appreciate you letting this "civilian" in and showing us your world. Your truthfulness shows me your heart and mind and helps me to understand, even a tiny bit, what has and continues to happen. Thanks Ed for sharing this. A big (virtual) hug for you.
When talking about his colleagues in the ICU, seeing him swallow that lump. That's what put me over. I spent a lot of time in hospital as a child, so I already knew these people were heroes, but having to face this horror down day after day is superhuman.
I had to have my appendix out at the end of Jan, had to be tested when i was admitted to the ward, and the whole process was dealt with great and seeing the staff doing the best they can, my praise to all the nurses and doctors, not forgetting the support staff for doing the best in this crazy situation.
My father had to go in for a colonoscopy late last year (when cases were starting to rise again quite quickly here in Ireland) and when he came home he couldn't sing enough praises of the team that looked after him; from the nurses and surgeons to the support staff that he saw disinfecting everything they could find. Top-quality care, even amidst all of the madness and chaos
I had the same thing happening at summer and weird thing is.. That they took my stomach pains more seriously and were way more professional than before. Still some problems because I was basically ADHD/probably ASD+ mental health person handled by E&A and surgica personel - and they suck neurological or mental health stuff... Gave me quite harsh post-surgical depression that nobody talks about in our countsry that it's a real thing. Before I would have get dismissed by them and send home with the random stomach pain that didn't show anything clear, not even after 12 hours of testing - the level 5 pain just didn't leave. It wasn't as bad (8-9) when I came and basically pain not just going lower from point 5 was only reason for surgery. They did call it right, but before covid I would have been send home saying that the pain is my imagination. So... Points for them evolving to be better. Still... The support staff were the best, even for the patients and those people I do remember the best. The cleaner, the bit elder nursing stuff that did more basic things(education wise) but actually cared us younger ones as much than elderly, the lab stuff who actually talk to me and explained a bit what's going on overall... The support staff really are the real SUPPORT.
Speaking as someone who lives near Cheltenham, you're absolutely right that the races shouldn't have gone ahead. Thank you as always for your insights and for explaining everything so well. Stay safe ❤
I have watched Casualty since day one and I have never cried so much at an episode before. It was heartbreaking. So incredibly well done. We are so lucky to have the NHS and I am eternally grateful for everything that you guys do. True heroes.
You should react to It's a Sin. Devastatingly real show about the AIDS crisis. It touches on how hospitals treated the ill and locked them away in the early periods, and talks about the different ways the disease attacks different people. Great show, I'd love to see you talk about it
Such an incredibly humbling breakdown. As a health worker from New Zealand I knew we were lucky but never appreciated how much. Thank you for your humility Ed.
Dr Hope, I clicked on your "about" link to hopefully find an email link for you, as I don't normally send messages like this publicly. I discovered your channel a month or two ago and have watched in awe at your ability to convey what's been going on 'outside our bubbles'. I just watched your video about your reaction the the Casualty episode about Covid-19, and I'll be honest, I then watched the episode and literally cried for about half of it. I've lost 4 people to covid, and it still seems like quite a lot of the society at large still doesn't take it seriously. Watching that episode took me back to every death of a friend that I've had to experience over the last year. The programme was all that more poignant due to my personal experience. But having said that, you experience this on a daily basis. You're incredible. On a slight side note - I once asked my friends at the pub 'if you could have a superpower - what would it be?" - invisibility? x-ray vision etc? They all came out with their suggestions. Then came mine - the power to heal. I know you guys have incredible technology, training and dedication, but you can't save everybody all of the time, and when that happens, you are dealt the most emotionally crushing blow of seeing the death of someone. That's not like a photocopier jamming, it's not like not meeting sales target, or closing a deal. It's watching the final moments of someone die. These events aren't even in the same ball park. Like I said earlier - I'd love to have the power to heal, but there's no way I could cope on an emotional level on what you have to deal with, so I'd just like to say directly to you - THANKYOU to you and all your colleagues do to keep us all safe. You're a better man than I. Yes, the NHS is an incredible organisation, but without the dedication of each and every one of you, it wouldn't be a fraction of what it is. Thankyou Dr Hope, and a socially distant hi5 to you, and eternal respect. Stay safe.
This episode was difficult to watch, but I cannot thank you enough for sharing it and your input. Not being on the front lines can desensitized the rest of us from how brutal and intense this pandemic was and is. Every person on the front lines is a treasure. You all shine like stars in a dark night.
I had a hysterectomy in October. I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer (I am 26, but yeah, I have always been weird) so it wasn't a surgery that could be delayed. I felf incredibly guilty for getting this diagnosis at such a difficult time. But all the nurses and doctors were so wonderful and kind.
It had been many years since I watched Casualty, but I watched this episode. I was surprised by the accuracy of the storylines and the respect that the cast and crew have for the NHS is admirable. We had colleagues pass from Covid and this did bring a tear to my eye.
Seeing your reactions to all of this shows just how much you've been going through in keeping us safe, you and every one of your colleagues. So Dr Hope, thank you. You're all heroes, hopefully soon we can focus on healing, moving forward and bettering ourselves
That looked like a difficult episode for you to review. I was expecting a laugh at how rubbish it was going to be! Take care of yourself Dr Hope, you and the rest of the wonderful staff in the NHS are precious.
There were some differences in my hospital (US) regarding PPE and the like versus what you said. For us, in the Emergency Room, everyone wore a plastic gown and a respiratory when seeing patients whose status was unknown starting from day 1. We also did surgical caps or hairnets and eye protection. But like yours, our whole emergency room was redone. What previously had been curtain areas, turned into full-on rooms very quickly. We had four rooms that were designated for intubations and aerosolizing procedures. But watching you review that episode gave me chills. I'm not a doctor or a nurse (I'm a respiratory therapist but I know our roles in the UK and the US are different) and I was very much on the front lines. We were intubating at the start of the pandemic so many people. And they'd just crash. Just like that episode. It was so rough. I'm so glad we are seeing the light at the end of this because for a long time I'm not sure any of us thought we would. Thank you for everything you have done, both on youtube and in the UK.
I’ve been journaling quite a bit this week in an attempt to capture what this last year was like. I want this record for myself and my future grandchildren. Your videos last spring helped me understand and process what was happening in the hospitals, and for that I’m very grateful. And a big shout out to fellow AFOL, Dr. Sonia!
Wow. That was a very emotional video. I probably shouldn't have watched this during my lunch break. Thank you for sharing your perspective with us over this last year, it's been very enlightening.
Sending you - and all the people who take care of us and keep us safe - the warmest thank you. I wish to convey all my gratitude and support to you. Your videos are a ray of sunshine, always so educational... Thank you especially for all your content related to covid. It helped me to understand the situation better and it reassured me as well. This video brought me to tears a few times. I'm really grateful you shared these experiences with us. Thank you.
This episode was fantastic. Sure, some elements depicted what happened in ITU more than in the ED, but it was good to see it represented on an English drama, and it was amazing to see it so accurately represented. I remember going in to work, being moved to ITU after some surge training. I'd get in, get changed into scrubs, gown up and that wave of nauseating fear hitting, that fear of what was I going to see that day. The sudden deterioration, the younger patients dying when everyone thought it was older people who died, looking after colleagues who caught COVID-19... But, what Casualty really got accurate was the staff struggling with the emotions. Even little details in this episode - the tablet computer being wrapped in a sealed plastic bag - we all had our phones and iPads wrapped up, we ran so many gases even out of ITU, fear of using out of date PPE. Personally I found this episode hard to watch, it was like watching myself and the rest of the team I worked with on TV, and was so accurate that it hit harder than documentaries and news pieces. Well done Casualty cast and crew, and thank you for showing our story, my story. And thank you to Dr. Hope and every other member of hospital staff from domestics and catering to HCAs, Nurses and Doctors. It was hell but we made it ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Thank you so much!! the first episode back and knowing Steve's team had a very difficult task at hand and they knocked it out of the park!!! well atmosphere haha (Graphic Designer of the episode)
What an educational and heartbreaking video at the same time. How hard it is to observe how devastating and consuming this whole year has been for all of us but specially for all of you health workers. Our masive gratitute will never match your tremendous effort and hard work. Thank you, a million times THANK YOU. 👏👏👏👏👏
This episode hit home. hard. I'm a paramedic out of Australia. Worked through the whole of COVID so far, including the new outbreak we are having now. (Thankfully we are doing far better than most countries, and I'm very fortunate for that, but still, it doesn't make it any less scary) So many of the things in this episode reflect on what I saw through my work... It was a massive mind-game every time we walked through someone's front door - what PPE do I use? will it be enough? will I be exposed? Is my mask fitted properly? We couldn't just use full high-level PPE for everything - there were shortages everywhere... I heard of stations getting critically low on PPE supplies... People were petrified of going to hospital... The number of times we had patients who we -knew- needed help, but they were too scared and nothing we could say could help... Multiple big red giant warning signs at the start of the hot zones and everyone inside in gowns and masks and all... Entrances plastered with health alert info... Staff at entrances doing safety checks on everyone entering... The barriers and tape everywhere... It honestly looked surreal the first few times I saw it... The scene with the staff member ill... We had one of our own from my station end up intubated and they were very, very lucky to come off of that intubation... but they'll never work again :'/ It honestly was an absolute horror of a time, and I'm really glad that we managed to stop it getting totally out of hand over here... But alas, a new wave is breaking (and accelerating)... So... back for round 3. Here's hoping we can get it under control, and that I (and my colleagues) all walk out the other side unscathed :S
Thank u so much for this video! Can imagine how much u have seen! Thank u for your job 🥺! I’m from Brazil and a lot of people are dying here everyday. It’s really sad 🥺🥺
I was terrified to go back to work as a nurse. I hate to say that. When covid started, I was pregnant and had preeclampsia and was on bed rest. I won't lie and say I wasn't afraid to bring it back to my toddler and newborn son. I'm pregnant again, still cautious but currently I'm early on and doing okay. Also wanted to note before the pandemic when I was like 17 or 18, I had pneumonia. I absolutely did not want to stay in the hospital. My doctor made me walk around the ER Bay and monitored my oxygen. It dropped below 80. Needless to say, I didn't go home for two weeks.
I am a new subscriber. I noticed between your early 2021 videos and before and after then, there was a stark contrast in how you looked. I had to watch on just to see if you were okay. Seeing this video, I can see you look better than those videos before. Thank you for your service. It is seen physically on your face.
Thank you for the emotional work this break down required. Your videos have given me a window into what the healthcare workers around the world have been experiencing. We owe all of you our everything.
So proud of being your subscriber! this video shows the best of you as a professional and as a man. I can fully understand what's missing a dearest friend really means with its feelings of impotence and sorrow that follow. But reality asks us to go on. Take care 🇮🇹🍀🇬🇧
Fantastic review, thankyou for doing such a hard video to film. Greatly appreciated! So informative. Casaulty has really upped their acting game, I didn't get second hand embarrassment for bad acting, it's a thing. Just wondering when New Amsterdam releases their pandemic episode they postponed due to the pandemic, would you review that episode at all?
As someone who works in a large hospital on a COVID ICU in America things were very different for us. Watching this is giving me flash backs and I can’t finish it. Thanks for your POV.
Thank you so much for this review and break down! I haven't heard of this series here in Canada but it looks like it was very well researched. I can tell that it is hitting quite close to home for you and, honestly, even though I haven't yet seen any significant impacts of COVID on my home unit, a lot of the scenes still rung true (like end of life discussions and such). It was still difficult to watch. My friend is a former ER nurse and she still worked in the ER when they had to code one of the RTs and one of the other ER nurses (separate incidences; neither made it). She said going back to work after those events was one of the most difficult things for them. I agree that it becomes routine to compartmentalize suffering and death when you're dealing with a stranger, but when it's a friend/colleague...there is no compartmentalizing that. On another note...I'd like to hear more about silent hypoxia. I've never actually heard of it before. At what point do patients start to look like they're in respiratory distress? Does it take a while? I imagine at some point, the decreased O2 sats would catch up to them, so to speak. What kind of ABG values were you getting from these patients? Do end-stage COPD patients (who have chronically lower-than-normal O2 sats) count or not?
This is one of the things I like about casualty is how they hit home their messages. It is one of their top episodes. I can tell this was difficult for you and I thank you and your colleagues for everything you have done and do. Take care.
Goodness… this definitely was quite an emotionally taxing review, but I just want to thank you Dr Ed for taking the time to review this honestly and being so vulnerable with us. I bet it can be trauma inducing (and it has definitely reminded me of my mum's experience as an RN), but please know that you and all those in the NHS, the UK and abroad, you're our heroes, every single one of you and that your actions mean the world to us. ❤
Great episode, as ever. Professional, empathic and sprinkled with your lovely humour and positivity. Keep going, keep safe and know that we all have the deepest respect for you and your colleagues
Got a couple of your masks the other day and i absolutly adore them. Had to go in for an apointment at the hospital and got some lovely comments on them.
Thank you for all your work and for sharing all of this with us. I've just rejoined the NHS after 2yrs away, in part because I feel so passionately about contributing to this amazing organisation. Thank you again ❤️
Interesting to see your reaction to this, especially with recent events. I was working at a hospital just before the lockdown and as an asthmatic, I also felt that I would be too much of a risk and was furloughed. I didn't want to add to the stress of the staff or my family. It reminded me of my worries at the time and as much as I wanted to continue doing the work, the risk was just too high
Love your videos & discussions. I've not watched casualty for a few years. I'll be watching the feature length episode tonight. I can't imagine what you all had to and are having to endure again.
Thank you for explaining where they put the people who were pending test results. I always wondered about that. Thank you for mentioning the ER because that other guy said you worked in palliative care and I said wow it must have been a long time since I have watched him because I don't remember that... I didn't remember ER either but you would think I would notice palliative care. I don't know... This one is kind of exciting because I've never seen this show before and every other thing that I have watched that you have reviewed is something that I have seen. Probably more than once.
During the whole covid epidemic, I've found a brand new appreciation for the NHS and doctors from all over the world and all of the medical scientists who have been working so hard for the whole world. Thank you so much for your service ❤️🤗🙂
You doctors are doing an absolute amazing Job. Honestly, I have so much respect for you guys in the medical departments. Sadly, I lost a friend who had just turned 21 to the virus. I can’t talk about him without crying it was a massive setback for my mental health.
I can’t believe they killed Noel off, he’s been in the show for as long as I can remember. But really good for the show to acknowledge hospital staff additional to Doctors and Nurses.
I usually watch you on my tv and can’t comment but you are awesome and made this COVID journey better. Sensible, sensitive advice and a great insight into how the medical fraternity have faced this pandemic. I’m in Australia and we are lucky to be a distant island and could isolate ourselves pretty much. I feel for everyone who haven’t. Hopefully we are heading towards better control of the virus with vaccines. Thank you again and keep on keeping on!
Great episode mate. I don’t think most of us could thank you, and all of your colleagues, enough for what you’ve done over the last year keeping people safe.
This was really moving. You are superheroes. The resolve it would take to see all that happen and then go out again to meet the next patient - unbelievable. I hope things get better for all of you on the frontlines with the vaccines. It is such a long slog.
Absolute hero Dr Hope! The fact you actually take into account post mobility sats is really refreshing. At my hospital we're sending a lot of people home with some form of LTOT/ambulatory O2 for follow up in the community by the resp nurses. Do you know if you guys have a similar service for those patients you just can't wean from oxygen?
@Dr Hope's Sick Notes That was an amazingly meaningful and poignant video. Please know how much your efforts, and the efforts of all medical staff, are noticed and appreciated. THANK YOU.
I’m very sorry that you lost a colleague from this. We have all been effected from this. It was good to hear some positive events that took place and heroism.
To any NHS workers reading this comment section, THANKYOU for everything you have done during this pandemic, without all of you we wouldn't of been in the place we are now, with the ability to start slowly lifting restrictions, you are ALL heroes and you are ALL amazing! #THANKYOUNHS
Wow- that was hard to watch, but so brilliantly done. I knew this was hard on you- but not that hard As a teacher- it's been the hardest 12 months of my career, but just wow. Great episode Dr. Sick.
You should watch an episode of Holly City, it’s set in the same hospital as casualty but it’s different wards. Idk I think u would like it if u liked casualty
@@ellie3594 yh I know, I just feel like there are too many story lines that u need to know about before watching any episodes e.g. Cameron’s whole story line
@@bloodyjames1245 The distancing measures for filming Holby are different to those of Casualty. It leaves an impression of not being natural. The more open licence seen in USA medical dramas is perhaps too far in the wrong direction. It must be hard for any filming to safe guard all the actors and crew and make the family scenes real. In the future the dramas set under the Covid-19 years will be a form of documentary particularly with all the jibes at governments who failed to act quickly enough on the advise they commissioned.
Late to the party but this was fantastic. Great commentary and comparison of the way the pandemic played out, and I can’t believe how amazingly real the show was
As Im celebrating 6 months sobre (from painkillers) Id LOVE to see a drug awareness episode! Breaking down drug taking scenes in dramas, explaining how different drugs make you "high", and going into what long term drug abuse does to your body - both illicit drugs, and the abuse of certain prescription drugs.
Nobody involved me in the DNR decision. I was just flat out told on arriving at A&E that they wouldn't bother to resuscitate me as if it got to that point I would have a 3% chance of surviving, and only for about two days. That was just the policy. Nobody clapped when I went home either.
The first night of lockdown somebody broke into the dialysis unit overnight and stole all of our hand sanitiser and facemasks. Within a week all the nurses were isolating, and the unit was limping along with retirees and students doing their best. When I was admitted with covid, the nurses had no ppe at all. No masks, not even gloves, just plastic aprons. Risking their lives to work in a red zone. It was a terrifying week. With lying Matt Hancock saying there were no shortages.
That episode was hard to take. Not only because of everything going on, hearing it on the news, finding out someone I knew had sadly had their life support ended after a long battle. But because whole household was struck down. Because he had other medical issues going on at the time, my dad was taken into hospital for an emergency operation. Not being able to see him was already hard enough, but we all came down with covid at the same time. I lost the whole of January to it. I was so ill I can't even describe it. It felt like my lungs were crushed, I couldn't breathe, sleep, eat or even keep water down. It's like my body was violently rejecting every sip of water. I couldn't stand for more than 30 seconds. I could hardly gather the strength to move, but if I stayed still too long I couldn't breathe. I've never been icy cold while feeling like my insides were boiling like that before. My skin started turning a grey colour and I had to keep rubbing and flexing my toes and fingers because they kept turning blue. And this constant pain in my head just wouldn't stop - even my eyes went weird, like they were fizzing and popping. My mum wanted to call an ambulance for me several times, but I was so scared that if I went in, I wouldn't come home again. Thankfully it finally broke. We all slowly recovered. Dad finally came home. And though some of us definitely still have side effects, we've survived it. I really hope they eradicate this horrible evil virus. I hope that day comes sooner than later.
Thanks for your videos in general, and this one in particular, they are all educational and somehow soothing (sorry, I don't know how to put it). This review is understandably different as it tackles a bit of a sensitive topic. Thanks for the time you took to make this, and thank you and your colleagues for taking care of people. Much respect
I've been watching this show since I was a very young child. Noel has been on the screen for most of it. I moved countries a few years back so I'm behind on episodes. I can't believe the character is gone 😢 a solid part of my childhood there.
I've only worn the plastic face shield once, when I was working in the paleontology lab and the instructor was physically close to me. Under the face shield we had regular surgical or cloth masks.
I hope you can do the good doctor or new Amsterdam covid episodes. New amsterdam so far has done 3 episodes set in these times, including one about people who should be coming to hospital and don't from fear.
@@31337ification I didn't find out until 3 days ago. Watched all 3 episodes, it's pretty good so far. It's so far all set in covid times, unlike the other hospital shows I watch.
S3 isn't even slated for a UK release yet (if they run true to form, it'll be on Prime sometime mid-May, unless one of the satellite channels has picked it up, then we'll be getting a dump of S1 and S2 first)
I have birth just as we were starting to see cases in Arkansas. I remember the CDC rules would change by the hour as the nurses were in and out to check on me as I was progressing. The maternity ward at the hospital I was in was almost an island and I think that helped keep us safer. The day after we were discharged and took our daughter home they had their first COVID death. It was a weird feeling knowing we were that close.
It might sound a little, or really cruel to say, but I wished people had being more frighten with the idea of getting infected at the hospital. I work in the health care system and by the Goddess, the amount of people DEMANDING to see their doctors at their offices, not caring for the virus, being rude and even insulting the nurses just because they were trying to protect the patients and themselves. And I'm not talking about a visit for a fracture, or any emergency, they were calling for things like a normal check up, an annual check up, a change of glasses, etc. It was infuriating and painful, because I could feel and hear the exhaustion of my doctors and nurses. I have been lucky than non of my family members who are doctors got ill, or at least not symptomatic, but my Mother and father did get it. And the way the doctors and personal reacted to their co-worker getting ill and deteriorate reminded me of that time. Because I didn't get it, or at least didn't show symptoms I took the job of caring for my mother, she went to sleep with me and I slept on the floor of my room. Because she has high blood pressure, and is very nervous, part of the job was calming her down. So I had to keep a straight face when giving her information, and at some point choosing how much of the information to give her, because she tended to worsen with bad news. I mean, anxiety can rile up your breathing issues. But at night when she was sleeping I couldn't close my eyes, listening, making sure she was still breathing, she was still okay. Trying to be awake when she needed me, ready to notice if something worsened because we were damn scared. She had one foot in the ER really and it was one night that defined her improvement. We even got a portable breathing unit, to be able to keep her breathing while driving to the ER or awaiting for an ambulance. A couple days when I couldn't take it I locked myself in the bathroom and cried as silently as I could. Everyone that works in the health care system has some level of preparedness, training, for difficult situations, death, and everything that's being going on. But never to this level, not even stuff in the ER or ICU. That's why many have compared it to a war zone and indeed there's so many who are now suffering with PTSD among other "lovely" mental health issues because of how bad the situation was, and remains being in so many places around the world. I really hope seeing what happened, knowing how it happen, changes the behavior of us, as humans. To care more for one another, to understand what are the actual basic needs, and to know we need to prepare.
Working on the rapid response part of the domestic was a real eye opener for me we where use to cleaning up Ls, Cdiff, flu and other infections and then it all stopped and changed to covid none stop for months in a blink of an eye and at the start we had no ppe no advice on how to clean the bays and cubicles to get them ready for the next patient who was waiting for the room to be cleaned. Also, at the end of the day leaving the hospital busy and full of people to walking home not seeing anyone out even no cars and pubs and shops closed i felt like Jim from 28weeks later walking around a city alone one of the horrible feelings.
Thank you so much. Doctors, nurses, HCAs and other medical staff are of course heroes, but it's really been cleaners (not just in hospitals) that are the unsung heroes of this pandemic.
It amazes me that they didn’t see the images of hospital staff coming out of China where they were in full-on hazmat suits and follow their lead. China has to deal with a lot more airborne viruses than UK have ever experienced and so we should have paid more attention. As late as June 2020 there should not have still been any questions about it’s necessity.
apperantly one of the covid patient's family wanted to do something and was knowleageable in airflow sims, who contacted the hospital to offer his services.
@@PrograError no I mean was it mentioned in Dr Hope's video and I missed it or on the casualty episode that was like an homage to real life that wasn't shown here?
I had two pulmonary embolisms in Apr. 2021. Paramedics thought Covid, intake thought Covid. Wound up in a negative pressure room by myself, but needed 3 or 4 negative tests to be sure I could go to the cariology ward. When I eventually got Covid in Jan 2022, the antibody therapy had been developed, which I qualified for because of how badly the embolisms wrecked my lungs. Still developed Long Covid though, which was/is unfortunate.
Thank you Dr. Hope, for sharing your experience with us through out the pandemic. You and Dr. Sonia have made the valiant fight doctors everywhere have put-up to save lives and defined the word courage for us all. We hope pandemic will be be over by the end of 2023 when the whole world has been vaccinated.
Wow, thank you so much. We did our absolute best to make the episode as authentic as possible (and safe to shoot) and to honour our NHS heroes. Thank you. Steve Hughes (director of the episode)
It really shows; you and the team did a brilliant job... The attention to detail, the number of stories you weaved together and giving a peak into the medicine too; it was so well done. And thank you for the comment too, appreciate that!
You should do a show about social care... a lot of your viewers would associate/be horrified x
I'm a porter in an NHS porter, and we weren't allocated or allowed to wear masks in the early days, and I subsequently ended up in ICU as a COVID19 patient.
The rules and regs changed on a daily basis, and many staff were exposed .... not just the clinical staff.
@@kiwipics That’s why it showed how the receptionist died.
Thanks for making it. It's realistic for the Dutch healthcare workers as well, as far as I can see from this YT video.
I can tell this was a more emotionally difficult review to do than normal and I just wanted to say that it's appreciated
He's seen a lot. I have more and more respect for you, Dr. Hope, and for all your colleagues, in the UK and across the world. I hope to never again take for granted the doctors in our world
For those who don’t follow the casualty story line , at 4:58 when Fenisha ( paramedic) asked to take time off to self isolate , she didn’t ask to leave because of respiratory issues. The paramedic was pregnant but she wanted to keep it secret. I love these videos ❤️
Aww fenisha 😭
I can't imagine what you and your colleagues have been through with the pandemic. I deeply appreciate you letting this "civilian" in and showing us your world. Your truthfulness shows me your heart and mind and helps me to understand, even a tiny bit, what has and continues to happen. Thanks Ed for sharing this. A big (virtual) hug for you.
I couldn't help but cry when observing Dr. Hope's deep empathy and genuine emotions and recollections during this episode.
Me too, quite honestly. It must be so rough.
When talking about his colleagues in the ICU, seeing him swallow that lump. That's what put me over. I spent a lot of time in hospital as a child, so I already knew these people were heroes, but having to face this horror down day after day is superhuman.
I had to have my appendix out at the end of Jan, had to be tested when i was admitted to the ward, and the whole process was dealt with great and seeing the staff doing the best they can, my praise to all the nurses and doctors, not forgetting the support staff for doing the best in this crazy situation.
My father had to go in for a colonoscopy late last year (when cases were starting to rise again quite quickly here in Ireland) and when he came home he couldn't sing enough praises of the team that looked after him; from the nurses and surgeons to the support staff that he saw disinfecting everything they could find. Top-quality care, even amidst all of the madness and chaos
I had the same thing happening at summer and weird thing is.. That they took my stomach pains more seriously and were way more professional than before. Still some problems because I was basically ADHD/probably ASD+ mental health person handled by E&A and surgica personel - and they suck neurological or mental health stuff... Gave me quite harsh post-surgical depression that nobody talks about in our countsry that it's a real thing.
Before I would have get dismissed by them and send home with the random stomach pain that didn't show anything clear, not even after 12 hours of testing - the level 5 pain just didn't leave. It wasn't as bad (8-9) when I came and basically pain not just going lower from point 5 was only reason for surgery. They did call it right, but before covid I would have been send home saying that the pain is my imagination.
So... Points for them evolving to be better. Still... The support staff were the best, even for the patients and those people I do remember the best. The cleaner, the bit elder nursing stuff that did more basic things(education wise) but actually cared us younger ones as much than elderly, the lab stuff who actually talk to me and explained a bit what's going on overall... The support staff really are the real SUPPORT.
My friend directed this episode, and I know how much effort and love was poured into making it. I’ll definitely share your video with him.
Speaking as someone who lives near Cheltenham, you're absolutely right that the races shouldn't have gone ahead. Thank you as always for your insights and for explaining everything so well. Stay safe ❤
That was a shocker, I remember news reports afterwards that showed big clusters of cases near the racecourse and town centre / railway station area.
@@thegorgon7063 Yes, that was definitely where it started in Gloucestershire 😠
I have watched Casualty since day one and I have never cried so much at an episode before. It was heartbreaking. So incredibly well done.
We are so lucky to have the NHS and I am eternally grateful for everything that you guys do. True heroes.
You should react to It's a Sin. Devastatingly real show about the AIDS crisis. It touches on how hospitals treated the ill and locked them away in the early periods, and talks about the different ways the disease attacks different people. Great show, I'd love to see you talk about it
Such an incredibly humbling breakdown. As a health worker from New Zealand I knew we were lucky but never appreciated how much. Thank you for your humility Ed.
I was sobbing when I watched this episode a few weeks ago. IMO it's the best episode of Casualty in years.
Dr Hope, I clicked on your "about" link to hopefully find an email link for you, as I don't normally send messages like this publicly. I discovered your channel a month or two ago and have watched in awe at your ability to convey what's been going on 'outside our bubbles'.
I just watched your video about your reaction the the Casualty episode about Covid-19, and I'll be honest, I then watched the episode and literally cried for about half of it. I've lost 4 people to covid, and it still seems like quite a lot of the society at large still doesn't take it seriously. Watching that episode took me back to every death of a friend that I've had to experience over the last year. The programme was all that more poignant due to my personal experience. But having said that, you experience this on a daily basis. You're incredible.
On a slight side note - I once asked my friends at the pub 'if you could have a superpower - what would it be?" - invisibility? x-ray vision etc? They all came out with their suggestions. Then came mine - the power to heal.
I know you guys have incredible technology, training and dedication, but you can't save everybody all of the time, and when that happens, you are dealt the most emotionally crushing blow of seeing the death of someone. That's not like a photocopier jamming, it's not like not meeting sales target, or closing a deal. It's watching the final moments of someone die. These events aren't even in the same ball park.
Like I said earlier - I'd love to have the power to heal, but there's no way I could cope on an emotional level on what you have to deal with, so I'd just like to say directly to you - THANKYOU to you and all your colleagues do to keep us all safe. You're a better man than I.
Yes, the NHS is an incredible organisation, but without the dedication of each and every one of you, it wouldn't be a fraction of what it is.
Thankyou Dr Hope, and a socially distant hi5 to you, and eternal respect.
Stay safe.
This episode was difficult to watch, but I cannot thank you enough for sharing it and your input. Not being on the front lines can desensitized the rest of us from how brutal and intense this pandemic was and is. Every person on the front lines is a treasure. You all shine like stars in a dark night.
The scene when Ethan was calling and talking to the families was so emotional. George Rainsford did that scene beautifully
I had a hysterectomy in October. I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer (I am 26, but yeah, I have always been weird) so it wasn't a surgery that could be delayed. I felf incredibly guilty for getting this diagnosis at such a difficult time. But all the nurses and doctors were so wonderful and kind.
It had been many years since I watched Casualty, but I watched this episode. I was surprised by the accuracy of the storylines and the respect that the cast and crew have for the NHS is admirable.
We had colleagues pass from Covid and this did bring a tear to my eye.
Seeing your reactions to all of this shows just how much you've been going through in keeping us safe, you and every one of your colleagues.
So Dr Hope, thank you.
You're all heroes, hopefully soon we can focus on healing, moving forward and bettering ourselves
That looked like a difficult episode for you to review. I was expecting a laugh at how rubbish it was going to be! Take care of yourself Dr Hope, you and the rest of the wonderful staff in the NHS are precious.
There were some differences in my hospital (US) regarding PPE and the like versus what you said. For us, in the Emergency Room, everyone wore a plastic gown and a respiratory when seeing patients whose status was unknown starting from day 1. We also did surgical caps or hairnets and eye protection. But like yours, our whole emergency room was redone. What previously had been curtain areas, turned into full-on rooms very quickly. We had four rooms that were designated for intubations and aerosolizing procedures.
But watching you review that episode gave me chills. I'm not a doctor or a nurse (I'm a respiratory therapist but I know our roles in the UK and the US are different) and I was very much on the front lines. We were intubating at the start of the pandemic so many people. And they'd just crash. Just like that episode. It was so rough. I'm so glad we are seeing the light at the end of this because for a long time I'm not sure any of us thought we would.
Thank you for everything you have done, both on youtube and in the UK.
5:17 this paramedic was actually pregnant but it was still early days and hadn’t told anyone yet :)
I’ve been journaling quite a bit this week in an attempt to capture what this last year was like. I want this record for myself and my future grandchildren. Your videos last spring helped me understand and process what was happening in the hospitals, and for that I’m very grateful. And a big shout out to fellow AFOL, Dr. Sonia!
Wow. That was a very emotional video. I probably shouldn't have watched this during my lunch break.
Thank you for sharing your perspective with us over this last year, it's been very enlightening.
Sending you - and all the people who take care of us and keep us safe - the warmest thank you. I wish to convey all my gratitude and support to you.
Your videos are a ray of sunshine, always so educational... Thank you especially for all your content related to covid. It helped me to understand the situation better and it reassured me as well.
This video brought me to tears a few times. I'm really grateful you shared these experiences with us.
Thank you.
This episode was fantastic. Sure, some elements depicted what happened in ITU more than in the ED, but it was good to see it represented on an English drama, and it was amazing to see it so accurately represented.
I remember going in to work, being moved to ITU after some surge training. I'd get in, get changed into scrubs, gown up and that wave of nauseating fear hitting, that fear of what was I going to see that day. The sudden deterioration, the younger patients dying when everyone thought it was older people who died, looking after colleagues who caught COVID-19... But, what Casualty really got accurate was the staff struggling with the emotions.
Even little details in this episode - the tablet computer being wrapped in a sealed plastic bag - we all had our phones and iPads wrapped up, we ran so many gases even out of ITU, fear of using out of date PPE.
Personally I found this episode hard to watch, it was like watching myself and the rest of the team I worked with on TV, and was so accurate that it hit harder than documentaries and news pieces. Well done Casualty cast and crew, and thank you for showing our story, my story. And thank you to Dr. Hope and every other member of hospital staff from domestics and catering to HCAs, Nurses and Doctors. It was hell but we made it ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Thank you so much!! the first episode back and knowing Steve's team had a very difficult task at hand and they knocked it out of the park!!! well atmosphere haha (Graphic Designer of the episode)
What an educational and heartbreaking video at the same time.
How hard it is to observe how devastating and consuming this whole year has been for all of us but specially for all of you health workers.
Our masive gratitute will never match your tremendous effort and hard work.
Thank you, a million times THANK YOU. 👏👏👏👏👏
This episode hit home. hard.
I'm a paramedic out of Australia. Worked through the whole of COVID so far, including the new outbreak we are having now.
(Thankfully we are doing far better than most countries, and I'm very fortunate for that, but still, it doesn't make it any less scary)
So many of the things in this episode reflect on what I saw through my work...
It was a massive mind-game every time we walked through someone's front door - what PPE do I use? will it be enough? will I be exposed? Is my mask fitted properly? We couldn't just use full high-level PPE for everything - there were shortages everywhere... I heard of stations getting critically low on PPE supplies...
People were petrified of going to hospital... The number of times we had patients who we -knew- needed help, but they were too scared and nothing we could say could help...
Multiple big red giant warning signs at the start of the hot zones and everyone inside in gowns and masks and all... Entrances plastered with health alert info... Staff at entrances doing safety checks on everyone entering... The barriers and tape everywhere... It honestly looked surreal the first few times I saw it...
The scene with the staff member ill... We had one of our own from my station end up intubated and they were very, very lucky to come off of that intubation... but they'll never work again :'/
It honestly was an absolute horror of a time, and I'm really glad that we managed to stop it getting totally out of hand over here...
But alas, a new wave is breaking (and accelerating)... So... back for round 3.
Here's hoping we can get it under control, and that I (and my colleagues) all walk out the other side unscathed :S
Thank u so much for this video! Can imagine how much u have seen! Thank u for your job 🥺! I’m from Brazil and a lot of people are dying here everyday. It’s really sad 🥺🥺
I was terrified to go back to work as a nurse. I hate to say that. When covid started, I was pregnant and had preeclampsia and was on bed rest. I won't lie and say I wasn't afraid to bring it back to my toddler and newborn son. I'm pregnant again, still cautious but currently I'm early on and doing okay.
Also wanted to note before the pandemic when I was like 17 or 18, I had pneumonia. I absolutely did not want to stay in the hospital. My doctor made me walk around the ER Bay and monitored my oxygen. It dropped below 80. Needless to say, I didn't go home for two weeks.
Your service on the frontline is appreciated and I thank you for your hard work and service. Stay safe and stay healthy and good luck!
I am a new subscriber. I noticed between your early 2021 videos and before and after then, there was a stark contrast in how you looked. I had to watch on just to see if you were okay. Seeing this video, I can see you look better than those videos before. Thank you for your service. It is seen physically on your face.
Thank you for the emotional work this break down required. Your videos have given me a window into what the healthcare workers around the world have been experiencing. We owe all of you our everything.
So proud of being your subscriber! this video shows the best of you as a professional and as a man. I can fully understand what's missing a dearest friend really means with its feelings of impotence and sorrow that follow. But reality asks us to go on. Take care 🇮🇹🍀🇬🇧
Fantastic review, thankyou for doing such a hard video to film. Greatly appreciated! So informative.
Casaulty has really upped their acting game, I didn't get second hand embarrassment for bad acting, it's a thing.
Just wondering when New Amsterdam releases their pandemic episode they postponed due to the pandemic, would you review that episode at all?
As someone who works in a large hospital on a COVID ICU in America things were very different for us. Watching this is giving me flash backs and I can’t finish it. Thanks for your POV.
I saw Dr. Hope drop tears, especially with COPD patient. Made love to you guys.
Thank you so much for this review and break down! I haven't heard of this series here in Canada but it looks like it was very well researched. I can tell that it is hitting quite close to home for you and, honestly, even though I haven't yet seen any significant impacts of COVID on my home unit, a lot of the scenes still rung true (like end of life discussions and such). It was still difficult to watch.
My friend is a former ER nurse and she still worked in the ER when they had to code one of the RTs and one of the other ER nurses (separate incidences; neither made it). She said going back to work after those events was one of the most difficult things for them. I agree that it becomes routine to compartmentalize suffering and death when you're dealing with a stranger, but when it's a friend/colleague...there is no compartmentalizing that.
On another note...I'd like to hear more about silent hypoxia. I've never actually heard of it before. At what point do patients start to look like they're in respiratory distress? Does it take a while? I imagine at some point, the decreased O2 sats would catch up to them, so to speak. What kind of ABG values were you getting from these patients? Do end-stage COPD patients (who have chronically lower-than-normal O2 sats) count or not?
This is one of the things I like about casualty is how they hit home their messages. It is one of their top episodes. I can tell this was difficult for you and I thank you and your colleagues for everything you have done and do.
Take care.
If reviewing this TV show was difficult. I can't imagine how tough it's been for you. Thank you Dr Hope! All the best!
Thank you Dr Hope for keeping up your videos so we can see what it’s like. Hugs to everyone who needs it.
Goodness… this definitely was quite an emotionally taxing review, but I just want to thank you Dr Ed for taking the time to review this honestly and being so vulnerable with us.
I bet it can be trauma inducing (and it has definitely reminded me of my mum's experience as an RN), but please know that you and all those in the NHS, the UK and abroad, you're our heroes, every single one of you and that your actions mean the world to us. ❤
Great episode, as ever. Professional, empathic and sprinkled with your lovely humour and positivity. Keep going, keep safe and know that we all have the deepest respect for you and your colleagues
I can see this process hit home for you - thanks for continuing the humanising mission of this as reality for so many. :)
Got a couple of your masks the other day and i absolutly adore them. Had to go in for an apointment at the hospital and got some lovely comments on them.
Thank you for all your work and for sharing all of this with us. I've just rejoined the NHS after 2yrs away, in part because I feel so passionately about contributing to this amazing organisation. Thank you again ❤️
Thank you for all your hard work and everything you all have done.
Interesting to see your reaction to this, especially with recent events. I was working at a hospital just before the lockdown and as an asthmatic, I also felt that I would be too much of a risk and was furloughed. I didn't want to add to the stress of the staff or my family. It reminded me of my worries at the time and as much as I wanted to continue doing the work, the risk was just too high
Love your videos & discussions. I've not watched casualty for a few years. I'll be watching the feature length episode tonight. I can't imagine what you all had to and are having to endure again.
Thank you for explaining where they put the people who were pending test results. I always wondered about that. Thank you for mentioning the ER because that other guy said you worked in palliative care and I said wow it must have been a long time since I have watched him because I don't remember that... I didn't remember ER either but you would think I would notice palliative care. I don't know...
This one is kind of exciting because I've never seen this show before and every other thing that I have watched that you have reviewed is something that I have seen. Probably more than once.
You guys are amazing! So much respect and admiration for all that you and all of NHS!
During the whole covid epidemic, I've found a brand new appreciation for the NHS and doctors from all over the world and all of the medical scientists who have been working so hard for the whole world. Thank you so much for your service ❤️🤗🙂
I thought this episode was an excellent representation of that period.
It could be used to teach about life in the pandemic in the future.
You doctors are doing an absolute amazing Job. Honestly, I have so much respect for you guys in the medical departments. Sadly, I lost a friend who had just turned 21 to the virus. I can’t talk about him without crying it was a massive setback for my mental health.
Some of those scenes really hit home with you. HUG! You guys are the best of us!
I can’t believe they killed Noel off, he’s been in the show for as long as I can remember.
But really good for the show to acknowledge hospital staff additional to Doctors and Nurses.
Probably the two reasons why they choose him
HES COMING BACK WITH CAL AND BIG MAC AHHHHHH
In the U.S., some people lived in RV's (camper trailers) to protect their families as they worked in healthcare.
I usually watch you on my tv and can’t comment but you are awesome and made this COVID journey better. Sensible, sensitive advice and a great insight into how the medical fraternity have faced this pandemic. I’m in Australia and we are lucky to be a distant island and could isolate ourselves pretty much. I feel for everyone who haven’t. Hopefully we are heading towards better control of the virus with vaccines. Thank you again and keep on keeping on!
Great episode mate. I don’t think most of us could thank you, and all of your colleagues, enough for what you’ve done over the last year keeping people safe.
This was really moving. You are superheroes. The resolve it would take to see all that happen and then go out again to meet the next patient - unbelievable. I hope things get better for all of you on the frontlines with the vaccines. It is such a long slog.
WOW, You and ALL Your Contents Are AMAZING and EDUCATIONAL!!!
thank you for your hard work both in the hospital and in here
Absolute hero Dr Hope! The fact you actually take into account post mobility sats is really refreshing. At my hospital we're sending a lot of people home with some form of LTOT/ambulatory O2 for follow up in the community by the resp nurses. Do you know if you guys have a similar service for those patients you just can't wean from oxygen?
@Dr Hope's Sick Notes That was an amazingly meaningful and poignant video. Please know how much your efforts, and the efforts of all medical staff, are noticed and appreciated. THANK YOU.
Can i ask for more reviews of Casualty episodes? I really like too see how accurate a normal episode is.
I’m very sorry that you lost a colleague from this. We have all been effected from this. It was good to hear some positive events that took place and heroism.
We're doing well because of people like you.
Thank you. Beyond words.
To any NHS workers reading this comment section, THANKYOU for everything you have done during this pandemic, without all of you we wouldn't of been in the place we are now, with the ability to start slowly lifting restrictions, you are ALL heroes and you are ALL amazing!
#THANKYOUNHS
Wow- that was hard to watch, but so brilliantly done. I knew this was hard on you- but not that hard As a teacher- it's been the hardest 12 months of my career, but just wow. Great episode Dr. Sick.
You should watch an episode of Holly City, it’s set in the same hospital as casualty but it’s different wards. Idk I think u would like it if u liked casualty
They did a Covid episode aswell
@@ellie3594 yh I know, I just feel like there are too many story lines that u need to know about before watching any episodes e.g. Cameron’s whole story line
@@bloodyjames1245 The distancing measures for filming Holby are different to those of Casualty. It leaves an impression of not being natural. The more open licence seen in USA medical dramas is perhaps too far in the wrong direction. It must be hard for any filming to safe guard all the actors and crew and make the family scenes real. In the future the dramas set under the Covid-19 years will be a form of documentary particularly with all the jibes at governments who failed to act quickly enough on the advise they commissioned.
Late to the party but this was fantastic. Great commentary and comparison of the way the pandemic played out, and I can’t believe how amazingly real the show was
As Im celebrating 6 months sobre (from painkillers) Id LOVE to see a drug awareness episode! Breaking down drug taking scenes in dramas, explaining how different drugs make you "high", and going into what long term drug abuse does to your body - both illicit drugs, and the abuse of certain prescription drugs.
Phenomenal. If I ever have the misfortune of a medical emergency I really hope you are my doctor and Sonia does the anaesthetic 👏👏👏
Nobody involved me in the DNR decision. I was just flat out told on arriving at A&E that they wouldn't bother to resuscitate me as if it got to that point I would have a 3% chance of surviving, and only for about two days. That was just the policy. Nobody clapped when I went home either.
The first night of lockdown somebody broke into the dialysis unit overnight and stole all of our hand sanitiser and facemasks. Within a week all the nurses were isolating, and the unit was limping along with retirees and students doing their best. When I was admitted with covid, the nurses had no ppe at all. No masks, not even gloves, just plastic aprons. Risking their lives to work in a red zone. It was a terrifying week. With lying Matt Hancock saying there were no shortages.
Ohh this brings back the memories. I remember being stunned about the speed at which people deteriorated! It was horrific.
That episode was hard to take. Not only because of everything going on, hearing it on the news, finding out someone I knew had sadly had their life support ended after a long battle. But because whole household was struck down. Because he had other medical issues going on at the time, my dad was taken into hospital for an emergency operation. Not being able to see him was already hard enough, but we all came down with covid at the same time. I lost the whole of January to it. I was so ill I can't even describe it. It felt like my lungs were crushed, I couldn't breathe, sleep, eat or even keep water down. It's like my body was violently rejecting every sip of water. I couldn't stand for more than 30 seconds. I could hardly gather the strength to move, but if I stayed still too long I couldn't breathe. I've never been icy cold while feeling like my insides were boiling like that before. My skin started turning a grey colour and I had to keep rubbing and flexing my toes and fingers because they kept turning blue. And this constant pain in my head just wouldn't stop - even my eyes went weird, like they were fizzing and popping.
My mum wanted to call an ambulance for me several times, but I was so scared that if I went in, I wouldn't come home again.
Thankfully it finally broke. We all slowly recovered. Dad finally came home. And though some of us definitely still have side effects, we've survived it.
I really hope they eradicate this horrible evil virus. I hope that day comes sooner than later.
This was a great video, I think you doctors and all the nurses/hospital staff really are an inspiration
Thanks for your videos in general, and this one in particular, they are all educational and somehow soothing (sorry, I don't know how to put it). This review is understandably different as it tackles a bit of a sensitive topic.
Thanks for the time you took to make this, and thank you and your colleagues for taking care of people.
Much respect
was so worried youd start crying because i also got so emotional. sending hugs to you doc hope.
Thanks for sharing this with us!
Thanks Ed, another brilliant and informative vlog. I hope you are keeping well, all the best!
Thanks for doing this video, and as well as all the other videos on Covid-19, especially if it was hard for you. The insights were great.
Pffff that hit home. Thanks for that visualized window into your world during the last year.
I've been watching this show since I was a very young child. Noel has been on the screen for most of it. I moved countries a few years back so I'm behind on episodes. I can't believe the character is gone 😢 a solid part of my childhood there.
I've only worn the plastic face shield once, when I was working in the paleontology lab and the instructor was physically close to me. Under the face shield we had regular surgical or cloth masks.
Thank you. Not just for this video but without people like you I’d not have either my mum or dad x
WHAT THE HELL? I thought this programme finished in the early 90's, had no idea it was still going! Shocked!
Hope: thanks EVS
me who just quit my EVS job in the ED: thanks man XD
Would love to see you review the covid episodes of the Good Doctor.
I hope you can do the good doctor or new Amsterdam covid episodes. New amsterdam so far has done 3 episodes set in these times, including one about people who should be coming to hospital and don't from fear.
I didnt know new amsterdam was back!
@@31337ification I didn't find out until 3 days ago. Watched all 3 episodes, it's pretty good so far. It's so far all set in covid times, unlike the other hospital shows I watch.
S3 isn't even slated for a UK release yet (if they run true to form, it'll be on Prime sometime mid-May, unless one of the satellite channels has picked it up, then we'll be getting a dump of S1 and S2 first)
@@rog2224 I mean idk I watch it on an app I got from the internet. Shhh
I have birth just as we were starting to see cases in Arkansas. I remember the CDC rules would change by the hour as the nurses were in and out to check on me as I was progressing. The maternity ward at the hospital I was in was almost an island and I think that helped keep us safer. The day after we were discharged and took our daughter home they had their first COVID death. It was a weird feeling knowing we were that close.
It might sound a little, or really cruel to say, but I wished people had being more frighten with the idea of getting infected at the hospital. I work in the health care system and by the Goddess, the amount of people DEMANDING to see their doctors at their offices, not caring for the virus, being rude and even insulting the nurses just because they were trying to protect the patients and themselves. And I'm not talking about a visit for a fracture, or any emergency, they were calling for things like a normal check up, an annual check up, a change of glasses, etc. It was infuriating and painful, because I could feel and hear the exhaustion of my doctors and nurses.
I have been lucky than non of my family members who are doctors got ill, or at least not symptomatic, but my Mother and father did get it. And the way the doctors and personal reacted to their co-worker getting ill and deteriorate reminded me of that time. Because I didn't get it, or at least didn't show symptoms I took the job of caring for my mother, she went to sleep with me and I slept on the floor of my room. Because she has high blood pressure, and is very nervous, part of the job was calming her down. So I had to keep a straight face when giving her information, and at some point choosing how much of the information to give her, because she tended to worsen with bad news. I mean, anxiety can rile up your breathing issues. But at night when she was sleeping I couldn't close my eyes, listening, making sure she was still breathing, she was still okay. Trying to be awake when she needed me, ready to notice if something worsened because we were damn scared. She had one foot in the ER really and it was one night that defined her improvement. We even got a portable breathing unit, to be able to keep her breathing while driving to the ER or awaiting for an ambulance. A couple days when I couldn't take it I locked myself in the bathroom and cried as silently as I could.
Everyone that works in the health care system has some level of preparedness, training, for difficult situations, death, and everything that's being going on. But never to this level, not even stuff in the ER or ICU. That's why many have compared it to a war zone and indeed there's so many who are now suffering with PTSD among other "lovely" mental health issues because of how bad the situation was, and remains being in so many places around the world. I really hope seeing what happened, knowing how it happen, changes the behavior of us, as humans. To care more for one another, to understand what are the actual basic needs, and to know we need to prepare.
Your story is going have to be told. What you've gone through since March is amazing.
Working on the rapid response part of the domestic was a real eye opener for me we where use to cleaning up Ls, Cdiff, flu and other infections and then it all stopped and changed to covid none stop for months in a blink of an eye and at the start we had no ppe no advice on how to clean the bays and cubicles to get them ready for the next patient who was waiting for the room to be cleaned. Also, at the end of the day leaving the hospital busy and full of people to walking home not seeing anyone out even no cars and pubs and shops closed i felt like Jim from 28weeks later walking around a city alone one of the horrible feelings.
Thank you so much. Doctors, nurses, HCAs and other medical staff are of course heroes, but it's really been cleaners (not just in hospitals) that are the unsung heroes of this pandemic.
That hospital staff should have to buy their own PPE like this is a damning indictment on the government.
It amazes me that they didn’t see the images of hospital staff coming out of China where they were in full-on hazmat suits and follow their lead. China has to deal with a lot more airborne viruses than UK have ever experienced and so we should have paid more attention. As late as June 2020 there should not have still been any questions about it’s necessity.
The research about air flow management: which doors and windows to open to contain airborne spread, has been super interesting!
apperantly one of the covid patient's family wanted to do something and was knowleageable in airflow sims, who contacted the hospital to offer his services.
@@PrograError for the Casualty episode or in real life? Did I miss this part completely or was it just not shown here?
@@tori03031989 it's an IRL thing, there's a video on TH-cam somewhere
@@PrograError no I mean was it mentioned in Dr Hope's video and I missed it or on the casualty episode that was like an homage to real life that wasn't shown here?
@@tori03031989 not in video, just something I saw and wanted to share...
I had two pulmonary embolisms in Apr. 2021. Paramedics thought Covid, intake thought Covid. Wound up in a negative pressure room by myself, but needed 3 or 4 negative tests to be sure I could go to the cariology ward. When I eventually got Covid in Jan 2022, the antibody therapy had been developed, which I qualified for because of how badly the embolisms wrecked my lungs. Still developed Long Covid though, which was/is unfortunate.
Thank you Dr. Hope, for sharing your experience with us through out the pandemic. You and Dr. Sonia have made the valiant fight doctors everywhere have put-up to save lives and defined the word courage for us all. We hope pandemic will be be over by the end of 2023 when the whole world has been vaccinated.