Surgeons BBC2

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Wow! It's just incredible. The lady having the tumour removed from her face is so brave. Makes. Me so proud of the NHS.

No I don’t sweetest. We were registrars at the same time so went on a lot of courses etc together but we worked in different regions.

Fascinating programme. Such skilled and dedicated surgeons. Loved the technical 'SLF' term

Dh says that you have to train your bladder and adrenaline does the rest. My dh isn’t arrogant at all, he is quite humble and loves making a difference. We are very proud of him and his colleagues who are life savers and life changers.

Absolutely awe inspiring. The level of skill and dedication is wonderful to behold.
Imagine the cost of those surgeries if we didn't have the NHS? It would have bankrupted those families even if the would have covered it in the first place.
Please Please everyone, do everything you can to prevent the privatisation of the most treasured thing this country has .

We’re absolutely glued to this series. Amazing.

Another cracker this week, I thought. Both the clinical trials they highlighted would have such huge benefits if they go well.

It was great wasn't it? The liver machine in particular made me think of a cross between Frankenstein and The Matrix!!

But incredible to think how far medicine has come even in the last 30 years.

It's amazing. DH just kept whispering 'witchcraft!'

Amazing advances in medicine.

I've really enjoyed this series but it makes you think about funding for everything. With the NHS stretched to breaking point and unable to provide some of the basics, is it really ethical to be doing the hearing aid implant operation?

A friend of mine was horribly disfigured after a C.section for twins. She suffered depression and her marriage ended. Her GP recommended her for plastic surgery but the plastic surgery panel decreed that her operation was unnecessary.

There aren't any right answers, at least I don't have them. It just leaves you wondering.

The money for the hearing aid implant came from separate funding via grants - not the main NHS 'pot'. It was a specific clinical trial that may or may not have worked for the patient.

Oh right, I missed that bit. However, wasn't it taking place in an NHS hospital and in an NHS theatre?

Yes, it's a clinical trial. It was explained at the start that current hearing aids don't work perfectly, have to be taken off at night and in some other settings so increasing the sense of isolation of the deaf person and putting them at some risk (e.g. if a smoke alarm goes off during the night) and are conspicuous and mark them out as different. If the deaf person gets a better quality of life as a result of this operation, I'm all for it. It seems like a good use of NHS funds to me. We can't do absolutely everything that's possible but if the general public was given a long list of every procedure the NHS could do and was asked to rank them this would be a long way from the bottom for me.

Probably influenced by having had several elderly relatives suffering hearing loss and seeing how it affected them.

Many decisions as to where NHS money goes, are moral dilemmas. I haven't got any answers but I do think that life saving operations must come first.

The prostate cancer trial was amazing. The people developing these trials and those volunteering to take part are absolute heroes.

I do think that life saving operations must come first.

So do I, but it will be a sad day when the NHS can't do anything but lifesaving work.

Amazing series, shame it's finished. The liver machine is awesome. As a PP has said. We must do all we can to save the NHS. I am so proud to work for the NHS.

So do I, but it will be a sad day when the NHS can't do anything but lifesaving work

I agree completely. As far as spending money is concerned I think that care of the dying and the elderly is very important, yet these are seen as low priority.