Started watching this a while ago (still have to wait for one episode a week). A series I can totally binge in one go.... From hilarious high's and super funny comments, to being in tears and balling my eyes out all in one episode. It's brilliant.
Oh God, what a gem of a show! It’s heartbreakingly funny?! When you work in healthcare… and you relate so much to what they’re going thru… the exhaustion is just unbearable, speaking from real experience 😢
Just finished, what a brilliant series. I loved every single moment of it. I laughed and cried hard at the same time. We need more series like this one.
Just finished enjoying the book this morning, happened to be reading it while at a appointment at the NHS Radiology department yesterday and mentioned it while getting an aspiration from the Radiologist Dr who had also read the book and mentioned it had been made into a TV series which she recommended, will have to have a watch of it. Do you know if it's on Sky catch up or where to find the series? Blessings from Scotland. 🙏🏴✌️
This is the only comedy where I'm afraid to laugh because I know that for every laugh I do means that there will be a fucking heartbreak coming at full speed that would instantly send me in A&R
Holy effing sh**. This trailer has a strong start. I'm gonna have to put this one on hold and come back. I'm like, "Why is she eating in the first place ? " I need to regroup.
For anyone looking for the Kreia for KOTOR2 appearances: - “Hopefully a hairdresser” (at 0:41) - “Nobody cares if I die” (at 2:52) (okay her real name is Sara Kestelman, but she will forever be Kreia to me)
Someone in the comments is fighting so hard just to say that Kay isn't cut out to be a doctor because his behavior shows that he doesn't cope well with the environment he's in. Like wasn't that the whole point of the show? The person kept insisting that doctors like Kay are part of the minority and that the majority copes well enough as if that erases the fact that there are doctors out there suffering under extreme pressure. What that person couldn't see is the lost potential of these doctors who "are incompetent because they lack empathy for their patients". I mean Shruti alone showed great improvement in her field but still ended up dead because she couldn't take the stress anymore. Are we just gonna ignore the doctors we lost just because there are those who cope better?
Honestly, empathy was the problem with Kay’s situation. I haven’t watched the show yet but just finished the audiobook (read by the author). People like him who start out really caring and empathetic don’t make it as doctors because empathy is painful, and that means daily pain for a guy like him. In a labor ward, babies and moms to be die in horrible agony on a regular basis. Not only that but he would have to talk to all the grieving relatives, compounding the trauma. To survive, doctors have to be total sociopaths or somehow build an emotional wall between them and the patients. I don’t think Kay was able to fully do that. Throughout the book, by his tone, I could tell he cared a lot, especially about the babies. A lot of people think he was making fun of patients, but listening to him read the book, it was more like each horrible thing was another straw that broke the camels back, continuous unending misery that can only be talked about in a dark comedic light. His stories may sound funny to the audience, but remember he had to see these people suffer.
Agree, can't usually watch real life intrusive surgery films but went along with as this was so enjoyable but that woman's dietary needs nearly made me throw up 🤮
much of this looked like it was directed by Peckinpah .. apart from the penultimate scene where the young lovers fail to take their underpants off before leaping into the lake together.. Sam would have have insisted that the actors were naked for that - even if he had to get them to share a bottle of brandy to loosen them up..
There's a couple songs, but if you're referring to the Jarvis song that starts at @1:15, it's Jarvis - Job Description. It's on the show's soundtrack that just came out.
An interesting insight into why the NHS has some of the worst perinatal and maternal mortality rates in the developed World. Yes, the USA is worse, there's always one, but that's a very low bar.
Maternal mortality rates in the UK are 7 deaths per 100,000 live births. Just to pick a few other countries, that's the same as Germany, better than France or Portugal (8), New Zealand (9), Canada (10), and yes, significantly better than the US (19). All developed counties I think you'd agree? In fact the UK has better maternal mortality than 86% of the world. Is it perfect? No, but calling it 'some of the worst' is clearly not true. Sadly I suspect you have some kind of agenda here, but please don't resort to lies. Especially when they're so easy to disprove.
@@MadenskySquare yes, I exaggerated a little. UK has similar rates to Turkmenistan and Slovenia; countries that do better include Belarus Poland Italy Norway Greece Israel Finland Czech Republic UAR Spain Sweden Denmark Iceland Belgium Luxembourg Japan Netherlands Switzerland Slovakia Austria Eire Montenegro Malta Cyprus Australia.
This is nothing to do with the Labour wards in the NHS , most births are done by midwives , doctor are in the side , only come for one second and leave. They don't deliver babies only forceps and ventouse, most of the time they don't have idea of physiological births . The are always plenty of midwives to catch babies.
Thx was looking for this comment. Same in Germany. Doctors dont deliver babies unless its vacuum extraction or c-section or other intervention… normal births is just midwives and doctors checking in if everythings fine and doing stiches if necessary… 🤔
Having watched 3 episodes Kay comes across as arrogant, incompetent and rude to others. He left the NHS after just 6 years as a doctor but seems to be successfully milking such a short career.
@@Jamaaays Actually I have. For nearly 30 years. I think one of the most telling remarks is in an early episode when Kay talks about becoming a doctor because his father was one. Assuming this series is close to what he is actually like, then I stand by my comments and would add that I don't think he was cut out to be a doctor. One of the best characters is Shruti. She had the empathy, the intelligence and the desire to be a good doctor far more than Kay. Her suicide was an absolute shock.
He is wrote himself as arrogant, incompetent and rude. And knows and admits he ultimately found he wasn't built to cope with the lows. So whats your actual problem. Not everyone can be as perfect, noble and humble like you😉 your response to it does not help. His overall point is not all doctors get into the profession for the right reasons, are cut out for it or if they are and have problems they are afraid to admit it. Hence why every 3 weeks a doctor commits suicide.
@@seamusoflatcap the perception that people struggling needs to feel its OK to ask for help and not just get on with it. "I'm fine" doesn't need to be the response. "milking"? 1000s of nhs have said thank you to him for pointing out the struggles, flaws, underfunding and culture of put up or shut up, whilst also highlighting that people who think they want to be in the profession need to seriously think about why they want to do it.
