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A further Holby City thread

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Optimist1 · 02/01/2018 18:23

New year, new thread! Looking forward to tonight's episode ...

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ChoccyJules · 08/05/2018 21:33

Well tonight I fluctuated between Dofty, aw....and that awful Gaskell: everytime he's on, with his terrible slurry diction, I phase out and forget to watch!

frazzled3ds · 08/05/2018 21:56

I was quite worried about Dom, but then it all got better again - hooray! That said I wonder what Duvet thought - reckon he's jumped to a wrong conclusion somehow, more along the lines of HIV/AIDS....

Still not sure about Tate - she seems to be a bit of a mind games type of person, don't really like her much.

Gaskell is a creepy and downright weird bloke and seems to be more and more 'deranged' as time goes on. I hope Roxanna calls him out on it all!

SleepingStandingUp · 08/05/2018 22:15

When is Jac coming back??????

ChoccyJules · 09/05/2018 12:35

Dunno. Hopefully when she gets a decent script which is a bit more variable than 'snarky comment, rude to staff, rude to patient, snarky comment...repeat' Wink
I do think Fletch could do with seeing her though Grin

SleepingStandingUp · 09/05/2018 13:20

Can anyone remember when she had Emma? Was she a poorly baby?

SoupDragon · 09/05/2018 15:00

She had something like a “diaphragmatic hernia” and needed surgery when she was born (by emergency c-section IIRC)

SoupDragon · 09/05/2018 15:03

I think Duvet has jumped to the wrong conclusion too. I’m not sure why Dom is so cagey about it - surely it is a reasonably common risk amongst surgeons.

SleepingStandingUp · 09/05/2018 15:09

Was wiki stalking to see if she was ever coming back and saw Emma had been diagnosed with CDH (congenital diaphragmatic hernia) and struggled at birth but didn't mention an op. Only curious because it's what my son was born with.

SoupDragon · 09/05/2018 15:12

I think she was rushed to surgery as an emergency. They were hoping to wait til she was stronger but she had to have it earlier.

SoupDragon · 09/05/2018 15:16

Odd that it doesn’t mention it in the Wiki entry though. mYbe I made it up!

SleepingStandingUp · 09/05/2018 15:43

Sounds about right tbh

PaddingtonBearHardStare · 09/05/2018 15:53

My local Hospital had a notice up today saying "if you have an appointment with Mr Malick please make your way to Orthopaedic Outpatients". I wanted to take a photo for this thread but there was a receptionist sat near it Grin

spiderlight · 09/05/2018 20:59

Yes, I remember it was emergency surgery because my friend's son had had the same about a year earlier.

SleepingStandingUp · 09/05/2018 21:06

Yeah that alway makes it stick. There was a baby in Neighbours born with it literally a few months after mine. They always seem to get better so bloody quickly on telly. Someone on Emmerdale had a kid at the same time, really poorly and in an incubator etc but literally a private room, no nurse, no lines, just two of the heart monitor sticks. I jist felt scornful!!

QueenofmyPrinces · 09/05/2018 22:17

Just caught up with Holby.

I found the whole “rushing that girl to theatre” very odd seeing as Ms Tate didn’t even explain to her what was wrong and I didn’t see a Consent Form in sight... I don’t really understand why the storyline is ongoing? Is Jac going to come in and save the day or something?

And did Fletch really tell Ms Tate that one of the reasons he was offering Donna the job was because “she is a mate” Shock

Another one here unsure as to why Dom is being so cagey. Needle stick injuries pose a very real risk and I imagine his colleagues would be sympathetic and supportive.

Gaskell is crazy - and how is he flitting between Spain and England so quickly? It made me laugh when he pulled up at Holby’s Car Park and switched his Spanish ID Pass for his Holby one - I can’t imagine him having boarded a plane and carried out the journey still wearing it. Wouldn’t he have had to remove it as part of airport security so he wouldn’t have set the metal detecting alarms off? Grin

I wonder how long it is until we find out who the woman in Spain is? His wife perhaps? A daughter? I imagine it has to be someone very important to him?

I have a feeling his most recently operated on woman will die too from complications with the implant but Gaskell will hide the truth and say she died due to infection (hence the build up regarding her temperature in this episode) or say she died as a complication from her having to be turned in theatre to receive De-Fib treatment.

He’s a creepy man and I think the storyline is going to get darker and darker.

ChoccyJules · 10/05/2018 16:18

Yes I was shocked when Fletch said he wanted Donna to have the job because she's a friend! Is this the way scriptwriters think real life happens?!

QueenofmyPrinces · 10/05/2018 16:44

I’m FB friends with one of the scriptwriters, lol. I will ask her Grin

ChoccyJules · 11/05/2018 09:17

Cool Smile I would have thought all HR departments have to be seen to Not be doing favours these days.

If you're in the market for passing notes to the writers' room can you please ask them to stop Jac using 'cretin' as an insult. She's supposed to be a well-trained doctor. I know it's developed into common parlance these days but having a child with the condition which the word ridicules, it does grate on me, as they are supposed to have medics checking this stuff.

SleepingStandingUp · 11/05/2018 10:26

Not a word I use but had no idea it had a medic condition base :( you should deed message them assume complain Flowers

AGnu · 11/05/2018 10:52

I took the "she's a mate" comment to mean "we already know each other & know we can work well together so she's less of a risk than an unknown person who might not fit in well with the team." Put like that it seems more reasonable... Perhaps they're paying the actor by the word?!

ChoccyJules · 11/05/2018 21:16

I have messaged them twice, Jac keeps using it.

SleepingStandingUp · 11/05/2018 21:40

:(

SleepingStandingUp · 11/05/2018 21:44

If she ever returns, and she says it, poke me. I'll message them too. They wouldn't get away with using similar words where the origin is better known. I got a special kid too, I can imagine how it must jar xx

ChoccyJules · 11/05/2018 22:49

DH says I overreact and points out nobody nowadays knows the origin. True but it's weird how some words are never allowed and others become normalised. I don't want to be all special snowflake about it.

SleepingStandingUp · 11/05/2018 22:54

I digging think you are. The fact that there is a group of people who know the origin and find it offensive should be enough. It only takes a google to prove you're right, and a moments thought to give her a new word