This is Going to Hurt - starts 8th Feb

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I loved the book of this by Adam Kay. I know others weren't so keen.
BBC has dramatised this and starts in early Feb. Just a heads up for others who liked the book.

@sleepyhoglet

Can anyone medical explain why the scrubs come from vending machines?

They are sterile in plastic packs. I'm not medical but husband is and he has seen this but they don't have it any more.

@sleepyhoglet

Can anyone medical explain why the scrubs come from vending machines?

And what happens if there's none in your size or only have tops and no bottoms ?

You wear what’s there.

That’s the whole point of the scene where he can’t find any.

That's why he got some used ones out of the bin but I hope that doesn't happen very often. Last year I made some scrubs for the local hospital - there was a Facebook group and they did actually want them. DH said he often couldn't get hold of any so I made him his own set to keep in his locker.

I need to pay better attention in future.

If you get vomited on, or blood on you, you go and get a set of scrubs. It doesn’t mean there are any that fit you. You take what’s there.

You can always spot the nurse that’s been vom’d on, as they’ll be in scrubs.

It’s not call the midwife.

I think it’s a much needed antidote to call the midwife. The more people (eg men!) realise what women go through the better. Short staffing etc is real so good to see it on prime time tv.

I'm a pretty fierce feminist and I've also had a horrendous birth and I can honestly say I didn't read anything at all in the book that made me think AK was a misogynist. I'm quite shocked at how many people read it that way! I loved the book and I loved the first episode-I'm looking forward to the rest.

I wonder if other departments have ‘names’ that we would find distasteful

I remember some of the book is very emotional too. It made me laugh and cry

@DemBonesDemBones

I'm a pretty fierce feminist and I've also had a horrendous birth and I can honestly say I didn't read anything at all in the book that made me think AK was a misogynist. I'm quite shocked at how many people read it that way! I loved the book and I loved the first episode-I'm looking forward to the rest.

Me too (in all respects)

Names like that are clearly coined by men working with women’s bodies, hopefully a culture change is slowly happening with male doctors thankfully being phased out of obs and gynae.

@airbalonz

Names like that are clearly coined by men working with women’s bodies, hopefully a culture change is slowly happening with male doctors thankfully being phased out of obs and gynae.

The female doctor who saw me during my first labour was horrible and treated me like I was stupid. The male doctor was much better and actually explained things to me. Don’t generalise about male doctors.

@toomuchlaundry

I wonder if other departments have ‘names’ that we would find distasteful

Yep they do. Most are just a play on words. intensive care unit was always referred to as the expensive care unit because its cost about £2.5k a day per patient. That's pretty tame compared to what they called other units.

In all areas of work there are in jokes

Why do people expect things to be so different in a hospital

God some people are up tight. It's an entertainment, not a documentary or medical manual.

[quote LuckySantangelo35]@Thymeout
I think it’s really sad the misogyny went over your head because that shows how engrained and entrenched misogyny is in our society and way of seeing the world, if you can’t recognise it as blatant and extreme as it is in this programme. Women are seen as baby carrying vessels and if they ‘tear’ so what?! If it were men’s fucking pereniums being sliced apart I suspect practice would be somewhat different![/quote]
There’s a difference between depicting misogyny and condoning misogyny though. I don’t agree that a scene showing a mother ending up with a 3rd degree tear because the main character is on the phone and the character doing the delivery doesn’t have a clue means the programme is misogynistic, simply because the way the characters behaviour is misogynistic.

Implying people who disagree with you must be stupid or naive isn’t the best way to win hearts and minds, by the way. Just an FYI for the future,

@AnotherPoster

God some people are up tight. It's an entertainment, not a documentary or medical manual.

This. People seem to be mistaking it for a RCOG Best Practice film.

As a complete aside, would he gave been able to have a personal phone on him whilst on a shift?

I read the book - think he made it very clear that he probably should never have trained to be a doctor, and leaving was absolutely the right thing for him to do. I also thought his partner was male, but mostly I recognised just how hard it all was.
I work in intensive care - qualified in late 90s so some of his stories are shocking true, I do think things have improved though.
As for having flashbacks whilst in the pub…been there, done that.

@Mothermorph

As a complete aside, would he gave been able to have a personal phone on him whilst on a shift?

Yes. All doctors do.

Thank you I wasn't sure if that was feasible or not

Have to say I’ve never seen a doctor have a private conversation during a delivery though. I have however reported an anaesthetist who was always on the internet during sections.

a mother ending up with a 3rd degree tear

I thought he said "I told you not to let her tear".
Didn't think the degree of the tear was mentioned?

@LaMarschallin

a mother ending up with a 3rd degree tear

I thought he said "I told you not to let her tear".
Didn't think the degree of the tear was mentioned?

He didn’t specifically say 3rd degree but fairly sure he said “you’ve torn into your back passage”. Aka a third degree.