to think that the nurses on Holby City should be working and not emailing all the time.

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

They are always emailing, going on dating websites etc. Surely they shouldn't have time to go on the ruddy internet?

However,

1. Maybe they are on wikipedia to find out how to tie a triangular bandage.

and

2. Its not real.

it's like all the teachers in Waterloo Road being in the staff room at the same time

It's Flexible Profession Syndrome. You see it in soaps all the time. People meeting up in the pub in their suspiciously long lunch hour and so on.

And member of the families turning on on the wards for a "chat".

In "Doctors" you can get an appointment no problem and the doc will do house calls just because he/she is a bit worried about you.

Aah UD, that explains why the GPs on Doctors are always able to do very long home visits and involve themselves in the minutiae of their patients' sexual, social and psychological problems.

< at watching Doctors >

X post crackfox. You watch it too !!!

They're terrible at patient confidentiality as well. Especially if the patient is one of the staff - everybody knows everything in a matter of seconds.

There was a "things you never hear on EastEnders" thread a while back. My contributions were:

"Have you read the new McEwan?"

"There's a great new production of Lear on at the Garrick. Thought we might get tickets."

"This article in the Guardian about organic food is really interesting."

"I don't really have that much to do with my neighbours. All my best friends live across town."

"Oh, the Vic. I've never really been in there. It's a bit of a locals' pub. I prefer the Cock and Feathers up the road."

And they are alway having babies (usually in lifts without taking their tights off and within 10 minutes of their waters breaking) and bringing them to work and handing them over to other nurses to look after "for a minute".

They all die very painful deaths, but if they don't actually die, they take a nanosecond to recover from Really Bad Illnesses and come back all radiant.

Siblings of doctors and nurses need to be very very afraid. Always meet a very sticky end, or come back after 2 yrs with new faces.

I confess to also watching Doctors.

Also {fblush].

MaryAnn - what, you mean all five of them? The five teachers who manage the entire school of about 1000 kids and still find time to booze it up in the pub after work most days?

Talking of Holby, that staff bar looks nice and cosy. I'd quite like to go drinking there...

ahem

And where is Connie Beauchamps daughter?

Doctors was my guilty pleasure during my BF days and I was glued to the sofa. Even in my sleep deprived daze I could work out it was shite. Addictive shite.

To be honest, I no longer watch it, so I don't even know whether that one who was in a wheelchair managed to stage a remarkable recovery.

Anyone ?

I think the scriptwriters have written Grace out ...they couldn't milk any more decent storylines out of Connie being a 'career mum' (remember those? Dishy Sam Strachan accusing her of being a Bad Mum For Having A Job)...

CrackFox - am doing exactly that with DD. Hope it doesn't affect her mental health.

Holby city staff are crap at diagnosis as well. They totally failed to notice that whatsername - the Sister who had a baby in the lift - had post traumatic stress disorder and post natal depression! Nobody said anything to her, just let her come back to work and totally crack up. And don't get me started on Connie working immediately after her c-section - hello scriptwriters that was actually illegal...

Karl Kennedy is a specialist in every branch of medicine.

All Aussie doctors are ..... Maybe Aussie doctors just are ?

Maria in Holby did make a miraculous recovery.

And why do none of the patients ever manage to have a straightforward operation? Are the surgeons that bad?

Yes the surgeons are that bad - despite being supposed geniuses as well

Irt would help their operating skills ai think if they kept their mind on the job instead whichever row and/or affair they've conducted recently. Honestly I work in a hospital and the last thing anybody wants to do is shag somebody from work - they're all desperate to talk anything but shop! Ward staff certainly don't shag theatre staff - they hardly see them. Also - there was an episode where the deputy chief exec came down to the admissions ward to 'track down some missing supplies'. I laughed myself silly over that as it is so far removed from reality.

That bloody guy that used to be in The Detectives (i think). He is forever lurking behind curtains, outside doorways, listening in to everyones conversations, go and do some work you nosey fecker!

Also, Maria and Donna are having exactly the same argument at the moment that they had last Christmas.

It's not just that they shag somebody - they shag everybody in some endless La Ronde of permutations.