Ben Whishaw is terrific in this as he is in everything. Agree it can feel a bit mean but as you say I think this is intended a depiction of burnout manifesting itself as opposed to real disparaging of patients…I hope, anyway.
A nurse once told me they're not allowed to use the term 'COW' on the wards anymore at my local hospital, because when someone shouted 'mind the COW' some overweight patient took offense thinking it was aimed at them.
We had something similar where a Consultant asked a junior colleague to bring the "COW" in behind some curtains with a patient...and then a nurse happened to walk in. The patient complained, not understanding the term...
I saw some reviews saying that Ben Whishaw was and looked too old to play a junior doctor, but honestly, a knackered 41yo is what i imagine a junior doctor would look like after a few years in the NHS :) .
In any case, he _could_ have been a mature graduate like Ed Hope who had a career in something else before Medicine. Ed will one day be a similar age as a Senior Registrar to what Ben Whishaw is depicting here.
the bleakness of the show is what i love about it, it feels raw and real, in the sense that people are snapping at each other, being mean, but they're like overworked and burnt out and it makes sense to me. you should absolutely continue the show, although the title is very accurate , it did hurt
I watched an interview with Adam Kay and the kinder egg story is unfortunately accurate 😳… love these videos! I’ve binged watched this series but it’s refreshing to hear this from another’s doctors perspective!
So, I haven’t read the book, but I saw Adam Kay’s one-man-show on the West End, and that included the story about the Kinder Egg proposal, so I am inclined to believe that it is a true story. On that note, Adam’s one man show was incredibly moving. Writing a book is one thing, but I am not sure how he went out there night after night retelling the story of the horrific case that ultimately led to him leaving medicine. I left in tears.
You make so many good points in this! We really need to treat our health care staff better in order to improve patient care. Doctors need to be able to properly spend time looking at the whole picture of a patients health especially when trying to diagnose them. To put it into perspective, 1 in 17 people will suffer from a rare disease in their lifetime and many of these people will have to see several doctors over months/years or even decades before being properly diagnosed. It's not just rare diseases either, Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women but takes an average of 7 years to get a diagnosis. It often just takes one doctor to make time for that patient, look at the whole picture, review old medical notes and get the patient to tell their story from the beginning (and listen without interrupting!) to reach a diagnosis within 30 minutes that 100+ doctors have missed before. Giving doctors enough time to see patients in the first few appointments saves so much time and money in the long run and many patients who were unable to work due to illness can become well enough to work again once on a personalised treatment plan which also saves a lot of money. The computer on wheels made me laugh, I went for a nerve conduction study a few years ago (just before the NHS cyber attack) and the computer on wheels they were using was a huge thing that was still using Windows XP from the early 2000s 🤦🏻♀️
The one in the show might still be running on DOS, and that would not surprise me neither even now tbh. And I get it. If it's not broke and all that, who has time to learn a whole new database system? And the physical/data transition alone would be a multiyear trainwreck, inevitably. Best to just not until you *really* have to.
So happy to see you did another reaction! I totally love this show, especially what it builds to towards the end. And Ben Whishaw's acting is so amazing. I really hope you continue reacting to the show! I would love to see it.
I really feel the "it's just period pain, send her home" as a gynae patient. I was regularly dismissed for several years because my endometriosis had been excised. I was told It was just my period, it was just nerve pain, I couldn't still be bleeding 3x a week or getting chunks of uterine lining once a week with a Mirena in place. A pain specialist, who only read my file and never saw me in person or talked to me, wrote to my GP and told her that I was an addict and she needed to go back to medical school. Spoiler alert, the Mirena was too large for my uterus, and I have pretty severe adenomyosis that caused severe cramping on its own even after the Mirena had been out for a year. The pain I had been experiencing was not too dissimilar to labour pain daily for the better part of 3 years. It's no wonder that, without oxycodone to control said pain, my organs would begin to shut down from exhaustion due to existing CFS. Zoladex has been quite effective (allowing for significant reduction in pain medication), and I am now booked for a hysterectomy at 26yo, nulliparous. My GYN expects significant increase in function, judging by how Zoladex has gone.
My pain cleared so much by myomectomy. I do wish I'd had a hysterectomy instead - the risk of it coming back us terrifying and recovery was Horrendous! But life is so much kinder and manageable after recovery.
@@Marshmellowed Hugs! My gynae is really great - he accepts that, due to genetic conditions I have, I never want biological children. I did have to do a psych eval so that everything was above board, but I'm all cleared to yeet the uterus by May! :)
I found the show a lot darker than the book, and it was only 'based on' the book so of course it will be only showing the ward and those interactions in a certain light. Many NHS patients have complained about depictions of patients being overly rude and/or ignorant, but I guess that this is more a compilation of the worst experiences to really give off that tone surrounding life on the ward, and not a depiction of every day life as a doctor. By the way love your reactions and analysis!
Fun fact about “disparaging patients”… I’ve practically been raised in hospitals and when I was 18 I had my whole right lung removed along with some extra stuff. Before the surgery I was extremely fit because my cancer was in remission and I was doing parkour and MMA… After my surgery I had some complications and I ended up losing a ton of a weight, my posture and body shape shifted pretty dramatically and I would joke that I now look like a goblin boy. It became a running joke and kinda stuck with all the nurses because I was there for months and I was in on the joke… One day a poor young nurse got yelled at by a doctor for saying “Where is goblin boy? Is he creeping around somewhere?!” Haha she was getting yelled at and I actually WAS creeping around so I just appeared behind the doctor in the hallway and he turned and I startled him half to death.. I was like “Hi… I’m goblin boy. Sorry about the… creeping. Hehe” and gave him a dirty look trying to make it clear that the nurses were not being offensive. I’ve always been a wanderer, I walk around and get into stuff and go places I shouldn’t and I hated the gowns… so I’d be this skinny goblin boy in only gym shorts pushing my IV around and startling people on accident… haha it doesn’t help that I’m nocturnal and you definitely didn’t want to turn around at 3am and see me hunched over in the hallway behind you. Haha I felt really bad that she got yelled at and then everyone started calling me “Bat-Boy” because I’m nocturnal, wear black and sneak around… also my voice was very growly and deep because of the surgeries I’ve had. No one ever got in trouble for that one so it worked out. I think it’s fine to have fun, make jokes and even pick on patients as long as it’s in good fun and they’re in on it. Talking badly about anyone behind their back is wrong, regardless of medicine… having my nurses, interns and residents joke and mess with me, leave funny drawings on my whiteboard in my room or leave little pranks around made me feel normal and made my months bearable. Professionalism is nice and all but it only goes so far in making someone truly feel comfortable.
I certainly don’t remember the book being so mean but I think he’s playing it up for the general public - I hope people have more respect and support medical staff with more than a hand clap once a week 😳
I've read the book and seen him do the stage show live and I definitely feel like the shows Adam is meaner than real life Adam but when someone asked him about it on twitter he said he felt he could make TV Adam an infallible superhero or a real person with faults and issues and he went with the latter so I think he's intentionally meaner. But also as someone who's worked in the NHS for four years (though not in a clinical role) I'm pretty surprised at Dr Hope's shock at the staff being unpleasant about patients. It is representative of my experience unfortunately and as someone with complex health issues it's also representative of my experience as a patient.
I remember seeing the promo teaser for this a while ago and I was thinking, “I hope Dr Ed reacts to this”, and well, what do you know! Ben Wishaw is absolutely brilliant (I love him as Q in James Bond - I mean my username is evident of that) and now that you’re on episode two I hope this continues for the rest of the series! Thanks as always Dr Ed and I just love the jumper! 😉❤️
Absolutely the best piece of television I’ve seen in years. Thanks for your view & perspective. Very much looking forward to your take on the episodes. Hope you’re good dude. Looking most handsome as standard. P:S : loving the jumper! Lol. X
I haven't read the book, but given that it was mentioned the author/doctor is now retired from the medical field, it could be that this darker/meaner tone was the environment during his term in the field and that the present environment is an improvement because there was an advocacy/movement to improve it by other medical personnels during Adam Kay's time (either a formal collective movement or by individual actions that had others pay it forward).
The book certainly wasn't this dark. Well, the ending was. But the rest of it was just a series of vignettes of crazy/funny/bizarre situations woven around his relentlessly punishing schedule.
Ed, Canadian nurse here, I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful videos during the pandemic especially right at the beginning. I have never been so scared in my life and your videos brought me a measure of comfort. I know it has nothing to do with this video but I wanted to thank you.
Please do videos for the whole series! I binged the lot and they definitely cover some extremely important topics in later episodes. I'm glad your videos have started popping up on my recommended again (even though I'm subbed and belled for notifications I wasn't getting them!)
Really enjoy the reaction videos :) Would love to see you talk about how the NHS is dealing with (or not) the needs of trans individuals, particularly the needs of trans men. I watched a video from Mama Dr Jones on this subject where she talked to a British trans man about his experiences, particularly around gynaecological issues, and they were uniformly not great.
Same here! Was really great actually to see Mama Doctor Jones (who has been a known ally advocating for trans patients for quite a while now) do a crossover with British trans youtuber Jammidodger; I follow them both separately but never expected a crossover so it was so great to see! Would be fantastic to see Dr Hope cover this really important topic that's often so underdiscussed :)
I can imagine we are pretty behind the US, and to be fair talking with a trans person is going to give you a much better insight into the difficulties than I could. I think our hospital systems were not even able to capture patient details correctly regards gender vs sex until recently. When working in the Gynae team I did care for a few trans men patients, the only difference was they stayed on the general surgical wards rather than the gynaecology wards.
Transgender health is becoming its own medical speciality. There are several dedicated medical journals, plus other journals will have special issues devoted to the topic.
The dismissiveness around women's pain and self-reporting is a serious issue in medicine. Ask just about any woman, they'll tell you how difficult it is, along with a story about an illness or injury that was exacerbated because they weren't given due diligence. Obviously this show wasn't really intending to make this point, but that issue is endemic and it takes communities and individuals making concerted efforts, inc. firm advocacy with and on behalf of women. It isn't something that men generally deal with, as there's a strong cultural character that if men express pain, it /must/ be legit because men tend not to express that pain or engage with health services when needed.
the last time i was to a doctor i had severe vitamin deficiencies (found out much later) felt like dying.could barely stay awake. the dr said: youre fine, i too sometimes get really tired... ... .. ...
In America, the dismissiveness around women's pain is a HUGE issue. Trouble is, American medical practitioners are correcting for it... by just being dismissive of Everyone's pain, which is precisely the WRONG direction they should be going. The assumption is being made that everyone is a junkie before they're a patient, to the point that doctors are deliberately putting patients at risk for serious discomfort and/or injury by pressing into what could potentially be something like a bowel perf, a muscle tear, or countless other things, just to "Make sure" the patient is in pain. I was in the ER after serious pain out of nowhere, kidney stone. Doctor came in, introduced themselves before running or even so much as ordering any tests, and just forced his fingers right into my gut where I'd reported pain. If I wasn't already barely mobile from the pain, I'd have socked him across the jaw hard enough to give him nightmares for life. A note to doctors: Don't do that shit. Seriously. You are not helping. Dumb motherfucker didn't even apologize.
Pain is an interesting thing. What can be horrible and unbearable pain for one person can just be a minor pain for others. For example my mom had 3 kids without an epidural and 3 kids with one ( me included..the last one, my younger sister was an emergency C-section..she was still consious when they started cutting) And how she describes the pain just makes me admire woman who give birth that way....no way on earth am I going to do that when it's the to have my baby.
@@TacComControl Withholding legitimate pain relief from patients has been an issue in the US for years, and only exacerbated by the recent so-called "opioid epidemic".
@@ThreadBomb It's not even just the relief side, it starts right off the bat with just how you treat a patient in acute pain. I've lived with chronic pain all my life, once the hospital properly recognized and dosed me for the acute issue, I was on my feet again within about 15 to 20 minutes. Never even ended up filling the scrip they gave me for pain meds over the next week or so. And that treatment of "Cause more harm because maybe they might be lying"? Just means the liars get better at lying. And considering it's been a long term policy in terms of how to deal with the opioid crisis, but things have only gotten worse? It's clearly not working. At all.
An ovarian torsion I'd put at somewhere between a 7 and a 9. I've had one. Excruciating. Sometimes it would ease off. Before it had a tantrum the pain was more about a 4 or 5, as in annoying but manageable with over the counter pain meds. They couldn't send me home because I was writhing and my ultrasound had shown I had a cyst, we just didn't realise it was so big. It's not fun.
As someone who has been misdiagnosed, not told of an official diagnosis, have had to fight with doctors to do a thorough scan because something was seriously abnormal and I wasn't accepting an answer I thought was discriminatory, and is still recovering from Acute Bronchitis a month later because everyone thought it was Covid and I didn't get the right treatment, hospitals weren't accepting normal visits, and the Urgent Care I went to gave me antibiotics that helped rid of the infection but the inhaler was hurting me, I seriously wish that when senior doctors received concern from their understudies and junior doctors, they take it seriously. That's it. I could go into detail but I have no medical experience that isn't constant online research and am speaking as a patient.
As a final year RN student, the amount of disparaging comments depends on the sector and ward in my experience. The worst was when I did gen med placement in the public sector (now that's a recipe for burnout) - some of the nurses and doctors were truly heinous behind patients back, very disappointing. It seems to happen the least now I'm in paeds and when it does, it's always towards the family and not the actual patient. I can't imagine judging someone on potentially their worst day, it's beyond bad practice. I'm glad you constantly discuss it :)
I have had ovarian torsion due to a cyst on the ovary a total of 3 times, and every time the pain was excruciating. The first time it happened it took a total of 42 hours after first symptoms of pain and two visits to the ER before the doctors took me seriously and I got to have surgery.
I'm autistic so my pain presentation is unusual. It took around six weeks and going private before doctors would believe there was something going on (including internal bleeding). Credit to the very junior doctor at the first ED visit who wanted a contrast CT (which would have shown it clear as day) and was overruled.
Just discovered your videos and absolutely hooked. Would be interested to see you react to the Human Centipede! Not sure how YT friendly that would be but I'm sure I remember seeing a note at the beginning of the film that said it was "100% medically accurate." As a layperson I call BS but would love to get your take. Thank you for your service in the NHS and your videos ❤
Did anyone else notice Dr. Hope's clothing? Major flashback to episode 1 on: “This is going to hurt.” Don't know if this was planned but definitely made me smile. Junior doctors do love their knitwear...
I wish I could see it. I live in Scandinavia. Btw my father is a doctor and he used to tell me horrid stories from the hospital when I was growing up. So many things that can go wrong. From falling in front of the subway , to motor cycle crashes to getting a blade of grass in your ear and going deaf from it. My favourite actor is Ben Whishaw, too.
Watching these after seeing the show and just as the nurses' strike has been announced is really making hope NHS staff gets treated better and actual changes are made to the system to improve working conditions and patient care!
I did think the same thing about the tone - it did seem to go out it’s way to really shit on Adam at every opportunity but then I think it all serves to back him into a corner and make him appear in a more desperate situation
I understand the problem with relationships between colleagues. However from what i've seen personally irl is that most nhs workers work very hard and often giving good quality care. especially in outpatients. The waiting times can be long and hours can be long but the teams always work together to try and get things done and give good patient care. And especially with students and new graduates there are staff that look after the students and try to help with getting people settled into the environment.
Loving your review of this show. I watched an interview of Kay Adams and he said the scene with the kinder egg scene really did happen to him including the proposal 🤣
What I and consultant friends of mine have commented about, is that this is set in 2006 and its interesting how this is the attitudes we saw then and how noone would get away with behaviour like this anymore. I just hope laymen don't think it's like this anymore!
I’m an SHO. I would disagree. Perhaps higher up the ladder you see less, people are nicer when you’re in charge. Maybe your specialty is a friendlier environment. I finished an SHO job in O&G during the summer and found TIGTH really hard to watch as it was very true to my experience. Two other SHOs who worked in my firm agreed.
@@aislinga477 that’s really sad. I’m not a medic, but worked in the NHS for 20+ years & been in antenatal inpatients for months as patient & I did hope that this was drama dramatised because all my colleagues are kind to each other most of the time.
I've just remembered the series Getting On, I never finished watching all of it but I think it's not too well known and would love to see you react to another NHS based series!
It is worth saying in the book Adam while out on (if I remember correctly) a get together of some sort, with his colleagues when they were joking about peoples strange symptoms , one colleague jokes about one of their patients only sweating on one side of the face, they picked up this was a symptoms of Horner syndrome (can damage nerves and be deadly eventually), can see why it people call it a grey area privacy wise but that's at least one positive, as well as probably being therapeutic to talk about.
I think the general public is unaware of the acronyms used by doctors. My favourite is 'FLP, FLK' = "Funny looking parents, funny looking kids"! Was that Graeme Garden?
I do think I have a high pain tolerance, partially due to frequent migraines since I was about 14. I had ovarian torsion a few years ago, while I was waiting for surgery I was in so much pain I couldn't move or make a sound, just cry silently, I couldn't speak. A nurse saw the state I was in and got the ball rolling. The surgeon said if it wasn't ovarian torsion they'd take out my appendix incase that was the issue, but they were pretty sure it was torsion, in the ultrasound my right one was about double the size of my left one. Afterwards they showed me a picture of my ovary because it had turned blue. The idea of it happening again makes me break out in a sweat. I broke all four shin bones and had a facial injury that required skin grafts as a kid but my brain decided to block the memory out which I'm grateful for. Apparently I was trying to tell the paramedics I'd be ok and then trying to stand up and walk home, shock is a hell of a drug.
Good point about pain and different experiences. Especially with chronic pain the entire scale loses all meaning. When the patient calls it a 3 but the doctor expects it to be an 8 just by the source of the pain.
always loved this channel, not just the reactions and break downs, an also really informative too! also if you want for a fun scene (its only 3 mins an far as I remember the only part in it.. been a while since I seen it. but check out Mel Brook's Dracula: Dead and Loving it, the opening Van Helsing's Autopsy Lecture!
In the book, I remember Adam saying that doing a laparoscopic surgery was so difficult that "you can try to recreate the experience for yourself trying to tie your shoelaces with chopsticks. With your eyes closed".
In a channel 4 interview from 2020 Adam Kay recounts retrieving a kinder egg from someone's vagina which had an engagement ring inside so that story could be true!
OMG！As a non-medic, I have been enjoying your video and I really appreciate your point of view. I finished the show but I felt like missed a lot.KEEP IT UP ! Look forward to Ep.3
Dr. Hope's sick new merch: the official NHS creamed-spinach jumper! No self-respecting doctor goes casual without their official NHS creamed-spinach jumper!
Whenever Dr introduces himself as a "Junior Dr" I wonder when he'll start his videos with "I'm an intermediate(??) Dr in the UK instead" because he knows so much science already 🤣 It's difficult to watch this show when I'm not in the UK and dont have BBC1 but I still really enjoy these commentaries/review videos, the perspectives and stories they offer are wonderful. Thank you so much and keep it up!
Agreed. I find “Junior Doctor” such a belittling term for someone with 6 years experience on top of the insane amount of time they spent in higher education . I work in finance where 23 year olds with a lower second bachelors degree and can’t even calculate an interest rate swap have the title of “senior vice president” and think they are kings and queens of the universe.
It is a strange term, because right up until the moment one becomes a Consultant, one is technically a "junior" doctor, when that clearly isn't the case in the last few years.
How old is this book? When did they start using cows? I think my roommate was updating hospitals to these types of things like 15 years ago but I can't remember how long he's been here. 14 years wow. Okay so maybe like 12 years ago? Are we going to get this show in the US or is it too NHS specific? I found another one called hospital and it looked pretty NHS specific and also it was a documentary. We've had a few documentary type hospital shows about a decade ago in the US. I think they were summer replacements for Gray's Anatomy because they always had indie pop music in the background and they were created by this person named Terrence wrong. Which is an interesting name :-) We had Hopkins and also Boston med and New York med. They weren't bad, except that they caused an episode of Gray's Anatomy That was written by one of the writers when she was off on maternity leave only to discover that when they went to create the episode it took a lot more work than the regular episode because of all the documentary extra stuff that they had to shoot. It's still a good episode though. Also voice to text does not like to spell Gray's Anatomy as if it were a television show. Apparently it thinks it's the book from the 1800s.
So I have regular surgery at your hospital! - for my last one I had a brachial plexus block so I was awake just looking around the theatre - and that's when I realised my anaesthesia was being monitored by WINDOWS XP... Felt really bad for the training anaesthetist too because he asked if I'd mind him practicing the block and he hit every nerve in my armpit and nearly took himself out with my flailing arm haha. He also accidentally threw away the needle early and was complaining under his breath about how expensive it was 🤣 never knew consultants had the most boring conversations during surgery!
Wish I had laproscopic surgery on my right ovary, but it was already gone. It was an ovarian cyst that had also caused the ovary to twist and of course the torsion. They ended up cutting me open similar to a c-section to remove the bad ovary and a cyst off the left ovary. That was not fun.
I have watched the first 4 episodes now and it is a brilliant show with an outstanding cast. I will be interested to hear your views about the consultant 'Miss Houghton' in episode 4. She had so many laugh out loud lines with the foulest language!
They are still using "frequent flyers" in medical literature. Bad names are hard to tackle. Edit: On foreign bodies, one of the PI's I worked with said when he was interviewing for an emerg residency, one hospital decided that a presentation on rectal x rays with foreign objects was the best introduction to emergency medicine.
I always liked the idea of the false narrator in stories and shows. Never being quite sure if what you just saw was real or not is a fun mental exercise. It would make sense that it's a bit dramatised in our memory but I suspect it's just a convenient device used to get viewers hooked. People don't watch stuff that isn't hyped or ridiculous.
As someone who was a junior doctor before political correctness was accepted...the insults definitely happened often; especially to women, foreigners and people of colour. Glad that you think things are extreme, a testament to fact that the Nash has improved a bit.
Good plan…but fwiw I spent three months in antenatal & I honestly don’t recognise the Adam Kay version of o&g. With a few rare (nurse) exceptions, my health professionals were kind, caring & clinically great (& I’m a pretty critical consumer:)
I used to have a friend who would drive me up the wall for the entire month of I think it was March by posting all sorts of things about endometriosis awareness. Well she doesn't do that anymore because I think she's trying to sell smelly candles or something, however I have been watching my it's up to seven medical dramas in the US now. I'm so happy about it! And in one week I saw two different patients on two different series who had endometriosis, so I went back to my friend and I said hey! Is it endometriosis awareness month? And she said yes it was, so apparently they're getting better at it. I mean at least they managed to mention it on two out of seven shows. And they sort of snuck it in there sideways so it would be the way that doctors would get it. Although honestly I thought it was a little bit too easy. The first doctor thought to ask about it when the patients came in for pain and second one I can't even remember the episode because I haven't seen it six times because it wasn't Grey's Anatomy. Doctors here do get a little over specialized and completely miss it. Thankfully I did not have it and as for my friend her doctor actually agreed to give her a hysterectomy after one child at the age of 28. Usually they won't do it. She was lucky. And she was also lucky that she didn't have it spread throughout her body. And because I saw an episode of mystery diagnosis where somebody had it in their knee for 20 years. By the way I also recently saw something about how to get your doctor to listen to you, and it mentioned the pain scale isn't so great but the how does this get in the way of my life scale was pretty good. How does your pain keep you from doing the things that you want to do? I don't know if it's true but maybe? Right now, I can't go out and take care of my ducks because I can't breathe is a real issue.
Hi really enjoying these reviews of the show as ex secondary care pharmacist. Why did you not discuss the section about being chewed out by a senior as the cardiologist does to shruti in more detail that’s possible the worst part of healthcare and you didn’t explore it.
Ben Whishaw is terrific in this as he is in everything. Agree it can feel a bit mean but as you say I think this is intended a depiction of burnout manifesting itself as opposed to real disparaging of patients…I hope, anyway.
It is purposeful and it is addressed up to Episode 5.
A nurse once told me they're not allowed to use the term 'COW' on the wards anymore at my local hospital, because when someone shouted 'mind the COW' some overweight patient took offense thinking it was aimed at them.
We had something similar where a Consultant asked a junior colleague to bring the "COW" in behind some curtains with a patient...and then a nurse happened to walk in. The patient complained, not understanding the term...
This happened at the ER I work at. We call them by 'WOW' now, or Workstation on Wheels.
I saw some reviews saying that Ben Whishaw was and looked too old to play a junior doctor, but honestly, a knackered 41yo is what i imagine a junior doctor would look like after a few years in the NHS :) .
Is a Jr doctor supposed to be in his 30s? Because, yeah Ben doesn't look 40 at all but doesn't look 32 either 🤔.
In any case, he _could_ have been a mature graduate like Ed Hope who had a career in something else before Medicine. Ed will one day be a similar age as a Senior Registrar to what Ben Whishaw is depicting here.
the bleakness of the show is what i love about it, it feels raw and real, in the sense that people are snapping at each other, being mean, but they're like overworked and burnt out and it makes sense to me. you should absolutely continue the show, although the title is very accurate , it did hurt
I watched an interview with Adam Kay and the kinder egg story is unfortunately accurate 😳… love these videos! I’ve binged watched this series but it’s refreshing to hear this from another’s doctors perspective!
So, I haven’t read the book, but I saw Adam Kay’s one-man-show on the West End, and that included the story about the Kinder Egg proposal, so I am inclined to believe that it is a true story.
On that note, Adam’s one man show was incredibly moving. Writing a book is one thing, but I am not sure how he went out there night after night retelling the story of the horrific case that ultimately led to him leaving medicine. I left in tears.
You make so many good points in this! We really need to treat our health care staff better in order to improve patient care. Doctors need to be able to properly spend time looking at the whole picture of a patients health especially when trying to diagnose them. To put it into perspective, 1 in 17 people will suffer from a rare disease in their lifetime and many of these people will have to see several doctors over months/years or even decades before being properly diagnosed. It's not just rare diseases either, Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women but takes an average of 7 years to get a diagnosis. It often just takes one doctor to make time for that patient, look at the whole picture, review old medical notes and get the patient to tell their story from the beginning (and listen without interrupting!) to reach a diagnosis within 30 minutes that 100+ doctors have missed before. Giving doctors enough time to see patients in the first few appointments saves so much time and money in the long run and many patients who were unable to work due to illness can become well enough to work again once on a personalised treatment plan which also saves a lot of money.
The computer on wheels made me laugh, I went for a nerve conduction study a few years ago (just before the NHS cyber attack) and the computer on wheels they were using was a huge thing that was still using Windows XP from the early 2000s 🤦🏻♀️
Windows XP was a great OS - very solid.
The one in the show might still be running on DOS, and that would not surprise me neither even now tbh. And I get it. If it's not broke and all that, who has time to learn a whole new database system? And the physical/data transition alone would be a multiyear trainwreck, inevitably. Best to just not until you *really* have to.
So happy to see you did another reaction! I totally love this show, especially what it builds to towards the end. And Ben Whishaw's acting is so amazing. I really hope you continue reacting to the show! I would love to see it.
I really feel the "it's just period pain, send her home" as a gynae patient. I was regularly dismissed for several years because my endometriosis had been excised. I was told It was just my period, it was just nerve pain, I couldn't still be bleeding 3x a week or getting chunks of uterine lining once a week with a Mirena in place. A pain specialist, who only read my file and never saw me in person or talked to me, wrote to my GP and told her that I was an addict and she needed to go back to medical school.
Spoiler alert, the Mirena was too large for my uterus, and I have pretty severe adenomyosis that caused severe cramping on its own even after the Mirena had been out for a year. The pain I had been experiencing was not too dissimilar to labour pain daily for the better part of 3 years. It's no wonder that, without oxycodone to control said pain, my organs would begin to shut down from exhaustion due to existing CFS.
Zoladex has been quite effective (allowing for significant reduction in pain medication), and I am now booked for a hysterectomy at 26yo, nulliparous. My GYN expects significant increase in function, judging by how Zoladex has gone.
Good luck to you. ❤
I'm sorry about your pain.
I'm glad that it's getting better.
I'm sorry you weren't listened to.
I'm glad you are getting your much needed treatment.
My pain cleared so much by myomectomy. I do wish I'd had a hysterectomy instead - the risk of it coming back us terrifying and recovery was Horrendous! But life is so much kinder and manageable after recovery.
@@Marshmellowed Hugs! My gynae is really great - he accepts that, due to genetic conditions I have, I never want biological children. I did have to do a psych eval so that everything was above board, but I'm all cleared to yeet the uterus by May! :)
@@LevadeNZ Congrats, that's great! I'll be hopefully joining that yeet party myself soon.
I found the show a lot darker than the book, and it was only 'based on' the book so of course it will be only showing the ward and those interactions in a certain light. Many NHS patients have complained about depictions of patients being overly rude and/or ignorant, but I guess that this is more a compilation of the worst experiences to really give off that tone surrounding life on the ward, and not a depiction of every day life as a doctor.
By the way love your reactions and analysis!
Not every day, but it's certainly regular...
@@lidlllTTTTT Yesss, hate those patients.
people don't generally like seeing themselves in a mirror but it's worth it to hold it up to them
Fun fact about “disparaging patients”…
I’ve practically been raised in hospitals and when I was 18 I had my whole right lung removed along with some extra stuff. Before the surgery I was extremely fit because my cancer was in remission and I was doing parkour and MMA…
After my surgery I had some complications and I ended up losing a ton of a weight, my posture and body shape shifted pretty dramatically and I would joke that I now look like a goblin boy.
It became a running joke and kinda stuck with all the nurses because I was there for months and I was in on the joke…
One day a poor young nurse got yelled at by a doctor for saying “Where is goblin boy? Is he creeping around somewhere?!” Haha she was getting yelled at and I actually WAS creeping around so I just appeared behind the doctor in the hallway and he turned and I startled him half to death.. I was like “Hi… I’m goblin boy. Sorry about the… creeping. Hehe” and gave him a dirty look trying to make it clear that the nurses were not being offensive.
I’ve always been a wanderer, I walk around and get into stuff and go places I shouldn’t and I hated the gowns… so I’d be this skinny goblin boy in only gym shorts pushing my IV around and startling people on accident… haha it doesn’t help that I’m nocturnal and you definitely didn’t want to turn around at 3am and see me hunched over in the hallway behind you. Haha
I felt really bad that she got yelled at and then everyone started calling me “Bat-Boy” because I’m nocturnal, wear black and sneak around… also my voice was very growly and deep because of the surgeries I’ve had. No one ever got in trouble for that one so it worked out.
I think it’s fine to have fun, make jokes and even pick on patients as long as it’s in good fun and they’re in on it. Talking badly about anyone behind their back is wrong, regardless of medicine… having my nurses, interns and residents joke and mess with me, leave funny drawings on my whiteboard in my room or leave little pranks around made me feel normal and made my months bearable. Professionalism is nice and all but it only goes so far in making someone truly feel comfortable.
I certainly don’t remember the book being so mean but I think he’s playing it up for the general public - I hope people have more respect and support medical staff with more than a hand clap once a week 😳
He was a bit snarky in the book and he liked sarcastic jokes a lot, but it didn't show that much because he was the narrator
I've read the book and seen him do the stage show live and I definitely feel like the shows Adam is meaner than real life Adam but when someone asked him about it on twitter he said he felt he could make TV Adam an infallible superhero or a real person with faults and issues and he went with the latter so I think he's intentionally meaner. But also as someone who's worked in the NHS for four years (though not in a clinical role) I'm pretty surprised at Dr Hope's shock at the staff being unpleasant about patients. It is representative of my experience unfortunately and as someone with complex health issues it's also representative of my experience as a patient.
HELL YES!🔥let me tell you, I started watching this show after your reaction. I loved it. I just got the audiobook. Please keep them coming. 💜 💜
Please do this for the rest of the episodes. I can't wait to hear your commentaries on those!
Good seeing ya, Doc. Hope all is well.
I love this show so much. Ben Whishaw and Ambika Mod are really incredible in those roles and I cried too many times. This show has the right name.
I find his dry humour absolutely perfect.
I remember seeing the promo teaser for this a while ago and I was thinking, “I hope Dr Ed reacts to this”, and well, what do you know! Ben Wishaw is absolutely brilliant (I love him as Q in James Bond - I mean my username is evident of that) and now that you’re on episode two I hope this continues for the rest of the series! Thanks as always Dr Ed and I just love the jumper! 😉❤️
Absolutely the best piece of television I’ve seen in years.
Thanks for your view & perspective. Very much looking forward to your take on the episodes.
Hope you’re good dude.
Looking most handsome as standard.
P:S : loving the jumper!
Lol.
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I haven't read the book, but given that it was mentioned the author/doctor is now retired from the medical field, it could be that this darker/meaner tone was the environment during his term in the field and that the present environment is an improvement because there was an advocacy/movement to improve it by other medical personnels during Adam Kay's time (either a formal collective movement or by individual actions that had others pay it forward).
The book certainly wasn't this dark. Well, the ending was. But the rest of it was just a series of vignettes of crazy/funny/bizarre situations woven around his relentlessly punishing schedule.
Was very much looking forward to this, and was not disappointed :D love your channel
Thanks you! Glad it didn't disappoint :)
@@DrHopeSickNotes me2 loveeee your videos
Ed, Canadian nurse here, I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful videos during the pandemic especially right at the beginning. I have never been so scared in my life and your videos brought me a measure of comfort. I know it has nothing to do with this video but I wanted to thank you.
That kinder egg scene was hysterical.
Please do videos for the whole series! I binged the lot and they definitely cover some extremely important topics in later episodes. I'm glad your videos have started popping up on my recommended again (even though I'm subbed and belled for notifications I wasn't getting them!)
Really enjoy the reaction videos :) Would love to see you talk about how the NHS is dealing with (or not) the needs of trans individuals, particularly the needs of trans men. I watched a video from Mama Dr Jones on this subject where she talked to a British trans man about his experiences, particularly around gynaecological issues, and they were uniformly not great.
Same here! Would love to see a video about that!
Same here! Was really great actually to see Mama Doctor Jones (who has been a known ally advocating for trans patients for quite a while now) do a crossover with British trans youtuber Jammidodger; I follow them both separately but never expected a crossover so it was so great to see! Would be fantastic to see Dr Hope cover this really important topic that's often so underdiscussed :)
I can imagine we are pretty behind the US, and to be fair talking with a trans person is going to give you a much better insight into the difficulties than I could. I think our hospital systems were not even able to capture patient details correctly regards gender vs sex until recently. When working in the Gynae team I did care for a few trans men patients, the only difference was they stayed on the general surgical wards rather than the gynaecology wards.
Transgender health is becoming its own medical speciality. There are several dedicated medical journals, plus other journals will have special issues devoted to the topic.
@@DrHopeSickNotes it would be cool for you to have an interview or give a platform to a trans person to give awareness to these issues.
The dismissiveness around women's pain and self-reporting is a serious issue in medicine. Ask just about any woman, they'll tell you how difficult it is, along with a story about an illness or injury that was exacerbated because they weren't given due diligence.
Obviously this show wasn't really intending to make this point, but that issue is endemic and it takes communities and individuals making concerted efforts, inc. firm advocacy with and on behalf of women.
It isn't something that men generally deal with, as there's a strong cultural character that if men express pain, it /must/ be legit because men tend not to express that pain or engage with health services when needed.
the last time i was to a doctor i had severe vitamin deficiencies (found out much later) felt like dying.could barely stay awake. the dr said: youre fine, i too sometimes get really tired...
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In America, the dismissiveness around women's pain is a HUGE issue. Trouble is, American medical practitioners are correcting for it... by just being dismissive of Everyone's pain, which is precisely the WRONG direction they should be going. The assumption is being made that everyone is a junkie before they're a patient, to the point that doctors are deliberately putting patients at risk for serious discomfort and/or injury by pressing into what could potentially be something like a bowel perf, a muscle tear, or countless other things, just to "Make sure" the patient is in pain.
I was in the ER after serious pain out of nowhere, kidney stone. Doctor came in, introduced themselves before running or even so much as ordering any tests, and just forced his fingers right into my gut where I'd reported pain. If I wasn't already barely mobile from the pain, I'd have socked him across the jaw hard enough to give him nightmares for life.
A note to doctors: Don't do that shit. Seriously. You are not helping. Dumb motherfucker didn't even apologize.
Pain is an interesting thing. What can be horrible and unbearable pain for one person can just be a minor pain for others.
For example my mom had 3 kids without an epidural and 3 kids with one ( me included..the last one, my younger sister was an emergency C-section..she was still consious when they started cutting)
And how she describes the pain just makes me admire woman who give birth that way....no way on earth am I going to do that when it's the to have my baby.
@@TacComControl Withholding legitimate pain relief from patients has been an issue in the US for years, and only exacerbated by the recent so-called "opioid epidemic".
@@ThreadBomb It's not even just the relief side, it starts right off the bat with just how you treat a patient in acute pain. I've lived with chronic pain all my life, once the hospital properly recognized and dosed me for the acute issue, I was on my feet again within about 15 to 20 minutes. Never even ended up filling the scrip they gave me for pain meds over the next week or so.
And that treatment of "Cause more harm because maybe they might be lying"? Just means the liars get better at lying. And considering it's been a long term policy in terms of how to deal with the opioid crisis, but things have only gotten worse? It's clearly not working. At all.
An ovarian torsion I'd put at somewhere between a 7 and a 9. I've had one. Excruciating. Sometimes it would ease off. Before it had a tantrum the pain was more about a 4 or 5, as in annoying but manageable with over the counter pain meds.
They couldn't send me home because I was writhing and my ultrasound had shown I had a cyst, we just didn't realise it was so big. It's not fun.
That’s awesome that the sweater was on purpose! I was thinking you looked a lot like him! 😆
As someone who has been misdiagnosed, not told of an official diagnosis, have had to fight with doctors to do a thorough scan because something was seriously abnormal and I wasn't accepting an answer I thought was discriminatory, and is still recovering from Acute Bronchitis a month later because everyone thought it was Covid and I didn't get the right treatment, hospitals weren't accepting normal visits, and the Urgent Care I went to gave me antibiotics that helped rid of the infection but the inhaler was hurting me, I seriously wish that when senior doctors received concern from their understudies and junior doctors, they take it seriously. That's it. I could go into detail but I have no medical experience that isn't constant online research and am speaking as a patient.
Great show! Love how you relate to your experience, looking forward to the other episodes! Take care and don’t burnout!
Loved the video and learned something new. Always happy when another video comes out!
I loved it. Ben Whishaw is awesome
As a final year RN student, the amount of disparaging comments depends on the sector and ward in my experience. The worst was when I did gen med placement in the public sector (now that's a recipe for burnout) - some of the nurses and doctors were truly heinous behind patients back, very disappointing. It seems to happen the least now I'm in paeds and when it does, it's always towards the family and not the actual patient. I can't imagine judging someone on potentially their worst day, it's beyond bad practice. I'm glad you constantly discuss it :)
I just watched Episode 6 and it's hands-down the best medical drama ever.
Read the book. It's what I read before becoming a nurse. It's an eye opener and something to help the bigger understand each teams struggles
I'm glad you're putting the things in context for this series, especially when you raise the point of under-funded & under-staffed public services.
I have had ovarian torsion due to a cyst on the ovary a total of 3 times, and every time the pain was excruciating. The first time it happened it took a total of 42 hours after first symptoms of pain and two visits to the ER before the doctors took me seriously and I got to have surgery.
I'm autistic so my pain presentation is unusual. It took around six weeks and going private before doctors would believe there was something going on (including internal bleeding).
Credit to the very junior doctor at the first ED visit who wanted a contrast CT (which would have shown it clear as day) and was overruled.
Just discovered your videos and absolutely hooked. Would be interested to see you react to the Human Centipede! Not sure how YT friendly that would be but I'm sure I remember seeing a note at the beginning of the film that said it was "100% medically accurate." As a layperson I call BS but would love to get your take.
Thank you for your service in the NHS and your videos ❤
Did anyone else notice Dr. Hope's clothing? Major flashback to episode 1 on: “This is going to hurt.” Don't know if this was planned but definitely made me smile. Junior doctors do love their knitwear...
I wish I could see it. I live in Scandinavia. Btw my father is a doctor and he used to tell me horrid stories from the hospital when I was growing up. So many things that can go wrong. From falling in front of the subway , to motor cycle crashes to getting a blade of grass in your ear and going deaf from it. My favourite actor is Ben Whishaw, too.
Infuriatingly underrated. No idea why your channel hasn't blown up yet, but I hope it does!
Watching these after seeing the show and just as the nurses' strike has been announced is really making hope NHS staff gets treated better and actual changes are made to the system to improve working conditions and patient care!
I’m loving what this show is bringing out of you - I’ve just finished it but this is a brilliant endorsement nonetheless
I did think the same thing about the tone - it did seem to go out it’s way to really shit on Adam at every opportunity but then I think it all serves to back him into a corner and make him appear in a more desperate situation
The Kindr egg story IS actually true! It's either in the book of 'This Is Going To Hurt' or its follow up 'Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas'
Your overview has me sold. I really want to watch this show now. In the US, so gonna have to research how to access it. Love your reacts!
I understand the problem with relationships between colleagues. However from what i've seen personally irl is that most nhs workers work very hard and often giving good quality care. especially in outpatients. The waiting times can be long and hours can be long but the teams always work together to try and get things done and give good patient care. And especially with students and new graduates there are staff that look after the students and try to help with getting people settled into the environment.
My first thought when watching this show was "I would love to see Dr Hope doing a reaction video to this!"
"Has anyone seen the COW?!" XD
Loving your review of this show. I watched an interview of Kay Adams and he said the scene with the kinder egg scene really did happen to him including the proposal 🤣
What I and consultant friends of mine have commented about, is that this is set in 2006 and its interesting how this is the attitudes we saw then and how noone would get away with behaviour like this anymore. I just hope laymen don't think it's like this anymore!
That is really interesting, Mahala. Could you say a bit more about what has changed, and why?
I’m an SHO. I would disagree. Perhaps higher up the ladder you see less, people are nicer when you’re in charge. Maybe your specialty is a friendlier environment. I finished an SHO job in O&G during the summer and found TIGTH really hard to watch as it was very true to my experience. Two other SHOs who worked in my firm agreed.
You mean nowadays junior doctors who have become senior doctors have stopped humiliating junior doctors? I don't buy it.
@@aislinga477 that’s really sad. I’m not a medic, but worked in the NHS for 20+ years & been in antenatal inpatients for months as patient & I did hope that this was drama dramatised because all my colleagues are kind to each other most of the time.
I found this show because of your channel and just finished it. It's great.
I've just remembered the series Getting On, I never finished watching all of it but I think it's not too well known and would love to see you react to another NHS based series!
It is worth saying in the book Adam while out on (if I remember correctly) a get together of some sort, with his colleagues when they were joking about peoples strange symptoms , one colleague jokes about one of their patients only sweating on one side of the face, they picked up this was a symptoms of Horner syndrome (can damage nerves and be deadly eventually), can see why it people call it a grey area privacy wise but that's at least one positive, as well as probably being therapeutic to talk about.
"Before medicine I was a computer programmer." 🤯
Very glad to see another one of these. Big love to you all
There's an interview with Adam Kay where he talks about the kinder egg proposal, seemed to have been something he actually witnessed!
Loved this insight!! Please continue with the rest of the series!!
Really enjoying this series Dr. Hope! Thank you!
I think the general public is unaware of the acronyms used by doctors. My favourite is 'FLP, FLK' = "Funny looking parents, funny looking kids"! Was that Graeme Garden?
I do think I have a high pain tolerance, partially due to frequent migraines since I was about 14.
I had ovarian torsion a few years ago, while I was waiting for surgery I was in so much pain I couldn't move or make a sound, just cry silently, I couldn't speak. A nurse saw the state I was in and got the ball rolling. The surgeon said if it wasn't ovarian torsion they'd take out my appendix incase that was the issue, but they were pretty sure it was torsion, in the ultrasound my right one was about double the size of my left one. Afterwards they showed me a picture of my ovary because it had turned blue. The idea of it happening again makes me break out in a sweat.
I broke all four shin bones and had a facial injury that required skin grafts as a kid but my brain decided to block the memory out which I'm grateful for. Apparently I was trying to tell the paramedics I'd be ok and then trying to stand up and walk home, shock is a hell of a drug.
Anyone notice how Dr Hope is wearing what Adam wore at the beginning of the 1st episode?
Good point about pain and different experiences.
Especially with chronic pain the entire scale loses all meaning. When the patient calls it a 3 but the doctor expects it to be an 8 just by the source of the pain.
I wish I'd never heard the "de-gloving" dinner story. *shudders*
always loved this channel, not just the reactions and break downs, an also really informative too! also if you want for a fun scene (its only 3 mins an far as I remember the only part in it.. been a while since I seen it. but check out Mel Brook's Dracula: Dead and Loving it, the opening Van Helsing's Autopsy Lecture!
Please do an episode 3 when you get the change i think these are excellent and the serious makes a lot of important points i love you your views on
Great review Dr Ed - Kinder eggs will never be the same again! (Jeff)
In the book, I remember Adam saying that doing a laparoscopic surgery was so difficult that "you can try to recreate the experience for yourself trying to tie your shoelaces with chopsticks. With your eyes closed".
In a channel 4 interview from 2020 Adam Kay recounts retrieving a kinder egg from someone's vagina which had an engagement ring inside so that story could be true!
What a shocking waste of NHS resources!
Please do more episodes of This... if you feel up to it and it's not too traumatic for you.
I did notice the jumper straight away
OMG！As a non-medic, I have been enjoying your video and I really appreciate your point of view. I finished the show but I felt like missed a lot.KEEP IT UP ! Look forward to Ep.3
Awww the sweater is the same 😊🌸🌷
Dr. Hope's sick new merch: the official NHS creamed-spinach jumper! No self-respecting doctor goes casual without their official NHS creamed-spinach jumper!
Thanks again for another great video Dr Hope :)
Whenever Dr introduces himself as a "Junior Dr" I wonder when he'll start his videos with "I'm an intermediate(??) Dr in the UK instead" because he knows so much science already 🤣
It's difficult to watch this show when I'm not in the UK and dont have BBC1 but I still really enjoy these commentaries/review videos, the perspectives and stories they offer are wonderful. Thank you so much and keep it up!
Agreed. I find “Junior Doctor” such a belittling term for someone with 6 years experience on top of the insane amount of time they spent in higher education . I work in finance where 23 year olds with a lower second bachelors degree and can’t even calculate an interest rate swap have the title of “senior vice president” and think they are kings and queens of the universe.
It is a strange term, because right up until the moment one becomes a Consultant, one is technically a "junior" doctor, when that clearly isn't the case in the last few years.
Adam Key was a guest on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown. He told the story about proposal and assured it was real.
How old is this book? When did they start using cows? I think my roommate was updating hospitals to these types of things like 15 years ago but I can't remember how long he's been here. 14 years wow. Okay so maybe like 12 years ago? Are we going to get this show in the US or is it too NHS specific? I found another one called hospital and it looked pretty NHS specific and also it was a documentary. We've had a few documentary type hospital shows about a decade ago in the US. I think they were summer replacements for Gray's Anatomy because they always had indie pop music in the background and they were created by this person named Terrence wrong. Which is an interesting name :-) We had Hopkins and also Boston med and New York med. They weren't bad, except that they caused an episode of Gray's Anatomy That was written by one of the writers when she was off on maternity leave only to discover that when they went to create the episode it took a lot more work than the regular episode because of all the documentary extra stuff that they had to shoot. It's still a good episode though. Also voice to text does not like to spell Gray's Anatomy as if it were a television show. Apparently it thinks it's the book from the 1800s.
Yaaay! Another react! Love it! :D
This is so fascinating thank you!!!
So I have regular surgery at your hospital! - for my last one I had a brachial plexus block so I was awake just looking around the theatre - and that's when I realised my anaesthesia was being monitored by WINDOWS XP... Felt really bad for the training anaesthetist too because he asked if I'd mind him practicing the block and he hit every nerve in my armpit and nearly took himself out with my flailing arm haha. He also accidentally threw away the needle early and was complaining under his breath about how expensive it was 🤣 never knew consultants had the most boring conversations during surgery!
I beg you do the rest of the show. I just can't watch it unfiltered without a reactor because I sense it will make me really depressed.
Love your channel. I wish I could see this show in the states.
yay new videos
Pleeeeease review the rest of the episodes! They’re all on catch up! 🙏
Why and how did you career move from being a developer to doctor?
You are looking SO tired. I hope you are not having any trouble with burn out after these last years. Try to remember to take care of yourself.
Wish I had laproscopic surgery on my right ovary, but it was already gone. It was an ovarian cyst that had also caused the ovary to twist and of course the torsion. They ended up cutting me open similar to a c-section to remove the bad ovary and a cyst off the left ovary. That was not fun.
I have watched the first 4 episodes now and it is a brilliant show with an outstanding cast. I will be interested to hear your views about the consultant 'Miss Houghton' in episode 4. She had so many laugh out loud lines with the foulest language!
Would love to see you react to every episode of this show ❤️
They are still using "frequent flyers" in medical literature. Bad names are hard to tackle.
Edit: On foreign bodies, one of the PI's I worked with said when he was interviewing for an emerg residency, one hospital decided that a presentation on rectal x rays with foreign objects was the best introduction to emergency medicine.
I always liked the idea of the false narrator in stories and shows. Never being quite sure if what you just saw was real or not is a fun mental exercise. It would make sense that it's a bit dramatised in our memory but I suspect it's just a convenient device used to get viewers hooked.
People don't watch stuff that isn't hyped or ridiculous.
As someone who was a junior doctor before political correctness was accepted...the insults definitely happened often; especially to women, foreigners and people of colour. Glad that you think things are extreme, a testament to fact that the Nash has improved a bit.
You were a computer programmer! What made you choose medicine?
I'm currently 13 weeks pregnant with my first child and am anxious about EVERYTHING...so this show is one I'm gonna avoid watching for the time being.
As somebody who's seen the whole show, yeah, DEFINITELY give it a miss until a little while after you've given birth
Good plan…but fwiw I spent three months in antenatal & I honestly don’t recognise the Adam Kay version of o&g. With a few rare (nurse) exceptions, my health professionals were kind, caring & clinically great (& I’m a pretty critical consumer:)
Adam's a good name 😂
I haven’t read the book but Adam McKay told the kinder egg story in an interview so it’s true!
The kinder egg story was true .there is a this morning interview that tells this story
You should review ReGenesis. I saw that show from beginning to end literally right before the pandemic hit.
I used to have a friend who would drive me up the wall for the entire month of I think it was March by posting all sorts of things about endometriosis awareness. Well she doesn't do that anymore because I think she's trying to sell smelly candles or something, however I have been watching my it's up to seven medical dramas in the US now. I'm so happy about it! And in one week I saw two different patients on two different series who had endometriosis, so I went back to my friend and I said hey! Is it endometriosis awareness month? And she said yes it was, so apparently they're getting better at it. I mean at least they managed to mention it on two out of seven shows. And they sort of snuck it in there sideways so it would be the way that doctors would get it. Although honestly I thought it was a little bit too easy. The first doctor thought to ask about it when the patients came in for pain and second one I can't even remember the episode because I haven't seen it six times because it wasn't Grey's Anatomy. Doctors here do get a little over specialized and completely miss it. Thankfully I did not have it and as for my friend her doctor actually agreed to give her a hysterectomy after one child at the age of 28. Usually they won't do it. She was lucky. And she was also lucky that she didn't have it spread throughout her body. And because I saw an episode of mystery diagnosis where somebody had it in their knee for 20 years.
By the way I also recently saw something about how to get your doctor to listen to you, and it mentioned the pain scale isn't so great but the how does this get in the way of my life scale was pretty good. How does your pain keep you from doing the things that you want to do? I don't know if it's true but maybe? Right now, I can't go out and take care of my ducks because I can't breathe is a real issue.
I just finished the series. I hope you continue to react to this!
Hi really enjoying these reviews of the show as ex secondary care pharmacist. Why did you not discuss the section about being chewed out by a senior as the cardiologist does to shruti in more detail that’s possible the worst part of healthcare and you didn’t explore it.