Drama this is going to hurt

[Thomasina79]

I found the book brilliantly funny. I have worked in admin hospitals and primary care, so can relate re cut backs etc.

Anyone else enjoying this drama, if that’s the right word! True to life. Any doctors, nurses etc anyone?

I really liked his character & in that role you'd have to find a way of coping. I worked professionally in a similar field at about the same time for about as long & found managers far more patronising & unprofessional. I ended up hating all of them & leaving, no support from higher up at all.

This drama does highlight the long hours & adaptions that let staff have to make in order to make it work & I think it also highlights that you have to be superhuman in order to do the work as well as the thanklesness of it.

That manager who let the main character down after the complaint was realistic, I knew managers like this, just snakes who delegated the work & took no responsibility for anything. & I wouldn't have wanted to work with the woman who complained about Kay - I don't know why she wouldn't have spoken to him first. I thought she was making it all personal & I remember people like that - not exactly the same but just feeling that certain people would throw you under the bus without a moments notice.

Overall though I like the series, on the last part & he's obviously going to leave, I also admire the writer for turning this life experience into something positive & into a learning experience. Good for him I say.

Actually I remember being in hospital as a patient a couple of times around that time & feeling really upset about the way that the doctors spoke to the nurses. I even intervened on one occasion & told the doctor that the nurse was right (which was ignored). I thought that the hierarchy was disgraceful so much so that I felt personally upset by it.

Thankfully I haven't been on hospital for a good few years. I've supported a close relative in the mental health system more recently & that's been a huge eye opener, staff aren't what I'd call empathic, I'd say the higher up they go the worse they are.

I think the series is pretty accurate with doctor's having god complexes & junior doctors & nurses being undermined, treated like slaves & expected to have no life apart from being at the hospital. Its a pretty broken system & I wouldn't choose to work in it.

@SoupDragon

I watched the first episode and won't be watching any more. I found him completely unlikable and a nasty wanker.

I didn't even finish the first episode. I saw an interview with one of the other cast. Saying that junior doctors are always treated like that in the NHS. No they really aren't.