BBC Casualty: Activate the major haemorrhage protocol

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20+ years on I'm still not over a homeless man's frost bitten toes getting snapped off in ER 🤢. It could certainly give Holby hospital a run for its money on the lack of basic care for staff!

Is Nicole having another breakdown, and making all this stuff up about the men, I wonder? She looked overly anxious about it all.

Dylan remains my hero.

Casualty has always specialised in staff able to just wander off mid-shift to sort out their personal lives. And the doctor/councillor thing is just the sort of storyline Charlie used to have in the 80s.

Re; Flyn and the councillor, and the long, lingering looks. They wouldn't be exchanging those looks if one, or both of them were pensioners, would they? I just wish they would go to bed and get it over with !

I don't think she's making it up because the surgeon (cant remember his name) did do the handsy "accidental" hip brush when walking past Rida on her first shift, which is where all this list talk stemmed from.

Jesus those close camera angles at the end of today's episode made me feel a bit panicky.

Poor Rida. Nothing accidental where that surgeon is concerned, he knows exactly what he's doing.

And Stevie, we sort of saw it coming but she obviously didn't, what a shock.

If anyone is reading this before watching, there is a HUGE spoiler in the preamble before the episode, normally they just give a generic warning about upsetting scenes

What preamble?

(I've watched it)

Oh maybe you mean a warning

Have you say I watched it in iPlayer and there's no warning or guidance of content

The continuity announcement contained a spoiler.

When it was on real time tele?

Yes

Ah ok

There was nothing on iPlayer

I thought the sexual harassment scene was very well done indeed. And the subsequent scenes. My only annoyance is what a prime example of the dreadful trope of someone being stopped from saying something the conversation with Nicole turned into.

It's still annoying me that that surgeon never wears a mask while performing open surgery. Surely they wouldn't risk breathing or spitting bugs into people's wounds?

Yeah I was trying to word it better than the stuff they say at the beginning and failed

It's ok I just didn't realise what you meant at first cos it didn't give a warning on iPlayer and I watched it there, but then realised what you must have meant

Massively annoying!! The only reasoning I have is there’s some reason the actor can’t wear one in real life and they hope we don’t notice 🤷🏻‍♀️

My other theory is that he is too muffled wearing one although in that case they could dub it

It'll just be dramatic license I bet

Right at the beginning when we saw his first scene in surgery he did wear one briefly

But not after then. Probably decided he acts better without it 🤣

Poor Rida. Really upsetting episode, but brilliantly portrayed. I felt so panicky watching her - I was muttering 'Don't close the door, don't close the door..' when he called her into his office at the end, and then twisted her words into an apology. Jac Naylor would have had his balls for earrings if he'd tried that and she'd got wind of it when she was 'upstairs' in Holby City.

What a fabulous actress who plays Rida, she has so much screen presence. The upsetting scene during Stevie's surgery, she was wearing a mask, so she acted superbly with body language and her eyes, oh it was so cringeworthy, and as @spiderlight has said, Jac Naylor would have handled it differently !

Poor Stevie, I really felt for her after the anaesthetic had worn off. Syrupy Faith's sheepish exit, she didn't know what to say.
A previous poster has mentioned camera angles, I agree. A few weeks ago, I posted about the use of too many intense close ups, making the characters look ugly, it was during Nicole's post partum psychosis, and a poster reported me to Mumsnet, who deleted my post, thanks to @SoMentallyDrained and @purpleme12 I didn't realise you were both so sensitive, yet you both watch BBC Casualty.
Even the actors who play seriously ill patients have professionally applied make up.

Re Holby. My niece and her husband were medical students but qualified by the time we lost it. They, and lots of their fellow students LOVED it! Alas, I have to report that the medical stuff was pure bollocks which I know is a shock to us all. Casualty is far closer to real but as a very taccy person I often boo hiss at things like taccy at 110. Nope!

Wait, what on earth are you talking about?

I mentioned close camera angles making me feel panicky, because I could imagine myself in Rida's place. It made me feel like I was that close to him in a situation I couldn't escape from. Not because they "look ugly", which isn't remotely something that happens.

Who is "so sensitive"? Why have you tagged those two posters?

If this is how you usually post here then I'm not surprised your post was removed.

Great episode tonight with strong female performances. Lovely Robert Bathurst wouldn't have gone near Jac because he'd recognise an alpha who would destroy him. These men get away with it because they feed off the vulnerability even when, as Rida, they are outwardly confident. They need to be bellow him, easy tick and he needs to smell their fear. She will destroy him eventually..

The actress is amazing, deserves awards and I hope she'll go far because she's been lighting up scenes since the moment she arrived.

I think I wasn’t watching closer enough when the rida thing happened I spent the rest of the time wondering why touching her shoulder was bad 🤣🙈🙈🙈🙈