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I'm Dr Chris.

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And I'm Dr Xand.

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-We're identical twins.

-Twins!

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Do you know your body does loads of amazing things every day,

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without you even knowing?

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It's time to saw open some bone.

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Well, get ready to be wowed.

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Smell my armpits.

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We've got gobsmacking experiments...

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Wow!

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..mind-bending body tricks...

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and real medical mysteries.

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It's tickling the tip of my nose.

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So, are you ready to see what you're made of?

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Coming up today on...

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Operation Ouch!

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Find out what's in Chris's orange juice.

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I'm on-call responding to real emergencies.

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Just went to move and it went.

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And I get new specs in Mindbenders.

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But first...

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In the emergency department,

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the medical team are ready for their first patient.

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Well, come on, let's meet him.

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In Sheffield accident and emergency,

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six-year-old Jude is waiting to see the doctors with his mum.

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What's up, fella?

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I've got a stone in my ear.

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Oh, dear, how did that get there?

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I just put it in my ear.

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Oh, you put it there? OK.

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Let's find out more, shall we?

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It was circle time at school.

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Oooh, I LOVE circle time.

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Uh...OK. Anyway, Jude was daydreaming

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and playing with the carpet.

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-Oh, he's a tiny explorer in carpet jungle.

-Erm...

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He probably discovered a sticky sweet or two...

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Hello!

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..and some fluff.

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Ah! Get off me!

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Er...no, he found a stone.

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Oh, yes, and the stone wants to play chase,

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then it jumps up high to catch him, flying through the air.

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Er...no, Xand, Jude just picked up the stone

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and popped it into his ear.

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Oh...ouch!

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I need to get some tweezers.

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Best let the professionals decide.

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Ear to sort it out is Dr Susanne Baron.

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-Hello, Jude.

-Hi.

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-How are you?

-Good.

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What happened to you?

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I put a stone in my ear by mistake.

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By mistake, ah, that's not so bad then.

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Was it a big stone?

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Erm...it was...

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Whoa, that big?!

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..medium.

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Medium big, OK.

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Dr Baron begins the search.

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I'll just pull it a little bit.

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Are you in there, stone?

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Whoops, there it is.

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I can see it.

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It's a little grey stone right in the middle of your ear.

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We'll try and suck it out.

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High five, bro, let's do this.

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Dr Baron's using a vacuum to try and suck the stone out.

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OK, it will tickle and it will be very noisy.

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Oh, that's noisy.

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I'm not even in there yet.

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Come on, stone, out you come.

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I think it has moved a little bit, the right way.

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So, we'll try again.

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It's moving, but will it come out?

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No, I think it's wedged in there, actually.

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The stone won't budge.

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Sometimes we can't get these things out if they have a rough surface.

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The next thing we need to do now is to refer him to the ear,

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nose, throat surgeons.

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I'm sorry the vacuum cleaner didn't work today.

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The stone is still in my ear.

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Don't worry, Jude, we'll be back later to sort that out.

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Ready to see some amazing experiments?

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Yes! A triumph.

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We're going to show you how your incredible body works.

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Just don't try anything you see here at home.

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Today, we're looking at a pair of organs that really clean up.

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Chris, what are you doing?

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I'm cleaning and tidying the lab, Xand.

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I thought we had one of those self-cleaning laboratories.

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Would you like some orange juice?

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Oh I'd love some, yeah, it's thirsty work, this.

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-Here you go.

-Thanks, Xand.

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It's got juicy bits in it!

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Now, Chris doesn't like bits in his orange juice any more

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than your body doesn't like bits or waste products in your

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bloodstream, and what your kidneys do is help to get rid of them.

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Now, I can remove the bits from the orange juice using this filter.

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Hey, that's my tea strainer.

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Whatever, it gets rid of all the little bits in the orange juice

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just like your kidneys get rid of all the little

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bits from your blood that your body doesn't want.

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In 24 hours, your kidneys filter and clean 200 litres of blood

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and it's even more amazing when you see what a real kidney looks like.

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Now, this pair is from a pig, but they're very similar to yours.

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It might look a bit gross, but your kidneys are amazing.

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This tube here is the main blood vessel carrying

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blood into the kidneys full of waste waiting to be removed.

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The blood gets filtered and another tube carries the waste...

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wee, down to this sack here which is your bladder.

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Your bladder empties when you go to the loo.

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And that's the pipe that takes away the cleaned-up blood

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and sends it back around your body.

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Right, let's have a closer look. Scalpel, please, Dr Chris.

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Now inside the kidney is where all this filtering takes place.

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There we go.

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This is done by a special thing called a nephron.

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There's about a million in each kidney and they're

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so small you can't see them.

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So, we've had to pay good money for this photo of one

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under a microscope.

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Chris, don't you just hate it when a bit of the body is

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so small that you can only see it with a microscope?

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I do, I do, I hate it,

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but luckily, I've got just this eventuality covered.

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-Oooh.

-Come with me, Xand.

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Your kidneys are an amazing filtration system

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and we're going to show you.

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To do it, I've made these, two supersized kidney models,

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one for me and one for you, Xand.

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These are great.

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Finally, a kidney model that's big enough to actually see what's

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going on. I love it.

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Yeah, I thought you'd like it.

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So, we're going to use our giant-sized models to show you

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just how your real-life kidneys clean your blood.

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Now, this jar represents a single nephron inside your kidneys.

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And just like in the real kidney, Chris has put a tube bringing

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blood into the nephron here, another tube bringing cleaned-up blood out

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of the kidney, and then a third tube taking the waste away, it's amazing.

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OK. Well, thanks, Xand.

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Now, the liquid that represents your blood is here.

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It's got water and red glitter in it for a bit of colour.

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Now we're going to pump our very attractive glittery blood through

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our nephrons to give us an idea of how your kidney works in real life.

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Are you ready, Xand?

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I'm ready, Chris, let's go.

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And...pump.

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So, what you can see here is the glittery blood

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flowing into the nephron.

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And it gets filtered through the nephron

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and then the nice clean blood travels back along the renal vein,

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back to the body full of all the nice stuff your body wanted to keep.

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Chris...?

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-And everything else, the waste, comes out here...

-Chris?!

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-..out of the ureter and into the bladder.

-Chris!

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My urine's darker than yours.

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Oh, so it is.

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I must have given you the dehydrated kidney.

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I wanted to show everyone what happens

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if you don't drink enough water.

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Oh, I see, clever.

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If your wee is dark in colour like this, it's a

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pretty reliable sign that your body isn't getting enough water.

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Being dehydrated is not good for you.

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Your body works best when it has enough water.

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Light-coloured wee, like on my nicely working kidney,

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is a sign that you're well hydrated.

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So, we've seen how your kidneys are an amazing filter, cleaning

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up your blood and getting rid of things your body doesn't need.

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And the wee they produce is a pretty good sign of

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whether you should be drinking more water.

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Light yellow wee is good.

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Speaking of drinking more, I'd like a glass of orange juice,

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now I have some oranges here for you to squeeze for me.

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OK, Xand.

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Wait a minute, he's forgotten the oranges.

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Chris, you've forgotten the oranges!

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In the UK, there are hundreds of rapid response medical

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teams on standby.

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And they have to get to the scene of an emergency in minutes.

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Minutes?! Oh!

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We're on call with the UK emergency services,

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showing you what it's really like on the front line, saving lives.

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On-call with me is paramedic Jan Vann.

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Today I'm with the West Midlands Ambulance Service

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and I'm in this special fast response vehicle to get

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you to the scene of an emergency fast.

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Chris...wrong vehicle.

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Yes, this...this vehicle.

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This is the one we're using, this one, like I said.

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Jan alone can do 10 to 15 emergency call-outs in a day

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and a new case is just in for a 76-year-old lady

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with a dislocated hip.

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We're almost there, It's amazing how quick Jan

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and the fast response vehicle are.

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Jan and I are quickly on the scene.

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Hello.

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Just went to move, move the cushion and it went.

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So, poor Geraldine had a hip replacement,

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so, a new hip put in, just a couple of months ago.

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But it's already been dislocated once.

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And it looks like it may have gone again.

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-The same, when I touch?

-A little bit.

-A little bit?

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So, when it dislocates, that means that the top of the thigh bone

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comes out of the socket on the pelvis.

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The muscles are so strong in the leg that it's impossible to put

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it back in place without putting her under anaesthetic, so

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she is going to have to go back in and have a very small operation.

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And in the meantime, Jan can assess her and make sure there's no

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damage to any of the nerves or blood vessels, and totally reassure

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her, make sure she's safe before she goes into hospital.

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Hello, there, come on in.

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In no time at all, the ambulance has arrived to take Geraldine

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to hospital.

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We've got to do it all without causing her too much pain,

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so that's why we've got this chair.

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She's being phenomenally tough but this is not going to be comfortable.

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-That's it.

-And after some careful manoeuvring...

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I've got you. I've got you.

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..Geraldine is on her way.

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So, a hip dislocation is just a phenomenally painful thing,

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but the amazing skill of Jan and the other paramedics is to get her onto

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that chair and into the ambulance without really increasing the pain.

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And then she can get to hospital and have the problem fixed.

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Still to come...

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We have more tricks for your mind.

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Give me a high five.

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Chris is getting nosey.

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Do you know why your body makes boogers?

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And I need some help crossing the road.

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Where is, where is the car?

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Remember Jude with the stone in his ear?

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Could be a rocky road to recovery.

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Let's find out how he's getting on.

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Back in Sheffield, six-year-old Jude has a stone stuck in his ear.

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It was circle time at school.

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Jude was daydreaming he was a tiny explorer in a carpet jungle

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playing chase with a stone.

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No, he wasn't, Xand. That was your fantasy, not Jude's.

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He just picked up the stone and popped it in his ear.

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The stone is in my ear still.

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Earlier, the doctor tried to vacuum it out

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but the stubborn stone wouldn't budge.

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So Jude and Mum are back for a second go.

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And here to try and rope in the rocky rascal is ear specialist

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Mr Showkat Mirza.

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-Shall we have a look at your ears, Jude?

-Yeah.

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-Would that be OK?

-Yeah.

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Mr Mirza looks for the lost stone.

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And he looks and he looks.

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What does he see, Chris?

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It looked like he had a piece of wax deep in the ear.

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So, there's so much wax in there it's hard to see anything.

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But Mr Mirza has something for that.

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So, I'm going to give you some drops for your ears, help clean them out.

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It might even loosen whatever's in the ear

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and then it all comes out, yeah?

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-Right, say thank you, then, to the doctor.

-Thank you.

-You're welcome.

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So Jude, whatever happened to that stone?

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I don't know.

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Jude heads home and hopefully the ear drops will work

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and clear that ear.

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And the very next morning.

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That stone came out of my ear.

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Whilst Jude was asleep, my husband basically pulled the stone

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out of the ear.

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The ear drops worked and dad was on hand to retrieve the stone.

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He's good at fixing things.

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BOTH DOCTORS: Bye, Jude. Bye, stone.

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Bye-bye.

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-Now we're going to mess with your minds...

-It's weird.

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..scramble your senses...

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and baffle your brain.

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In Mindbenders.

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Now, Xand, are you hungry? Have you eaten lunch?

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I have eaten lunch, Chris,

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but there is always room for a little something more.

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Well, that is good, Xand, cos I have a small treat for you.

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A treat, well, what is it?

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This...

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A single butterbean.

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How is that a treat?

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Well, you said you only had room for something small

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and anyway, this is a magic bean.

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A magic bean?

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In order to get this bean, Xand,

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you have to take part in today's mind-bending experiment.

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This is a very simple game.

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There are three beans, one on each cup.

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When I say so, you are going to put those three

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beans into the other cup, OK?

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Ready? Three, two, one...go.

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Yes.

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So that took you four and a half seconds, all right?

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Now, I want you to put on the glasses that you can see

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on the table.

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-Now, do these look like normal glasses?

-KIDS:

-No.

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No, they look a bit weird, don't they?

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These vision-shifting glasses make everything appear

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further to the left than it actually is.

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So, let's try with my funky new specs.

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Are you ready? Three, two, one...go.

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Come on, Dr Xand. Come on.

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Oh, come on, come on, come on. Come on.

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Hurry, Xand, hurry, Xand.

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And get it, get it, get it.

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-Oh, that was pretty bad.

-Did I do well?

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Ten seconds. Ten seconds.

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We repeat the experiment twice more.

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Come on, Xandy.

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And I complete it faster each time.

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Oh, four and a half seconds.

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He's now as quick with the glasses as he was without the glasses.

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Now, let's try it again without the glasses.

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Go. Come on, Xand.

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So, everything should be back to normal, right? Wrong.

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-Ah, Xand, you're rubbish at this.

-What did I get?

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That took you seven seconds.

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So, Xand was actually worse at the end without the glasses.

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Let's see how this lot get on.

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OK, are they nice and tight? Give me a high five.

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Go. Come on, Shona, let's go.

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Just like Xand, our volunteers have trouble.

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But get faster after a few goes.

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Getting better. Oh, look at that.

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With the glasses off...

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Go!

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How will they do now? The class are still struggling.

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You were slower without the glasses.

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Who thinks they understand now what's happening?

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I think the brain is trying to get used to a different

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way of looking at things, but if you take the glasses off then

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it's kind of like you try and get in focus.

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Naomi is almost right.

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These glasses shift everything in Xand's visual world a little

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bit to the left and that means when he puts them on,

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his brain has to rewire itself so that this new world appears normal.

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But then, when he takes them off, he has to re-rewire his brain

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in order than his normal visual world appears normal once again.

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So, this shows how quickly your brain adapts to

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the changes around you.

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I must say, Chris, after that I feel absolutely full of beans.

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I mean, it's "bean" amazing.

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Xand, I think that's enough with the bean puns.

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I mean, you could almost say, when you explained it to everyone

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at the end, that you had to... spill the beans.

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Now, did you know skin is your body's largest organ?

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It has a surface area of roughly two square metres.

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That's about the size of a bedsheet.

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We're at a theme park to solve your medical mysteries.

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Xand is preparing the Ouch-mobile ready for his first patient.

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And Chris is Ouch & About in the park

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to answer your burning questions.

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Wow, I'm impressed.

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-Next patient, please.

-Hello, Dr Xand.

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First into the clinic, is Rosie, who's asking about her arms.

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So Rosie, why have you come to the Ouch-mobile?

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I've got some bumpy chicken skin on my arms and I want to know why.

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It sounds like a case of...

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Would you mind opening the eyelid for the Ouch-cam?

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That's good.

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Oh, yeah, look, Rosie's arm is red and bumpy.

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I've had this since I was born and I don't know, really, much about it.

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Do you know the actual name for this condition?

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That's right.

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Now, Keratosis refers to the idea of keratin, which is a protein

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which covers your skin.

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And keratin's a very tough protein,

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so it's what fingernails are made of,

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it's what rhino's horns are made of.

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And you can see those bits of dry skin there,

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all that flaky stuff, that's keratin.

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Now, the keratin can block pores and follicles,

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these little openings in your skin, and that causes bumps.

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It's important to say this isn't a disease or an illness,

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it's just a common, normal part of being a human being.

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Most people at some point in their life get some of it.

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So, Rosie, thank you very much for bringing your amazing

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arms to the Ouch-mobile.

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Thank you for having me.

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Away from the clinic, Chris is Ouch & About in the park.

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Any questions? Medical questions.

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What are boogers made out of?

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So, do you know why your body makes boogers?

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It's to trap dust and insects and germs as you breathe them in,

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so they don't get into your lungs.

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So, it's just a sticky mess made of protein

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and everything that you inhale sticks to it.

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Back at the Ouch-mobile there's a new case in the waiting room.

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Next patient, please.

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And it's nine-year-old Jamie with a tale about his tum.

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I have got an interesting scar on my tummy.

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It sounds like a case of...

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-Now, can we have a look?

-Yeah.

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So, what I want you to do, is lift up the eye for the Ouch-cam.

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Jamie had an operation to take out a hernia a few years ago.

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-Do you have any questions?

-Yeah, what is a hernia?

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What a hernia really is, is a little bit of the stuff that's in your

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tummy, all inside here, your guts, poking through a hole in your wall.

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So, it's sitting under his skin, not hanging out, but still

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creating a lump, cos it's in a space where it shouldn't be.

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Now that didn't cause you any problems,

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so you think why do we need to do the hernia operation?

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The reason we do the operation, is because, occasionally,

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it can get twisted.

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If you twist your guts, guess what?

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The food can't get through, your guts get blocked up,

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it gets very painful.

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So we do the hernia operation to prevent you needing

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an emergency operation.

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Jamie, thank you very much for bringing in your cool scar

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and your interesting hernia story.

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Thank you, Dr Xand.

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Job done for today. Clinic closed.

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Your body is amazing, but sometimes it needs fixing.

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All over the UK, there are special teams of professionals

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trained to tackle medical mysteries.

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There are around 25,000 blind or partially sighted kids in the UK.

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Now, there are lots of different ways of being partially sighted.

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Some kids will have a part of their vision missing entirely,

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that's called a blind spot.

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For other kids, their vision will look fuzzy or out of focus.

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This can make everyday activities, such as texting or

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walking down the street, less simple than they seem.

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I've come to meet ten-year-old Ryan.

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-Hi, Dr Chris, come in.

-Thank you.

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Ryan is partially sighted.

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Everything looks blurry to him and it's worse in his right eye.

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-Now, because you've got so much less vision in that eye...

-Yeah.

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Do you find, what we call depth perception, difficult?

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Yes. I actually have none.

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Depth perception allows you to judge how far away things are.

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Can you get your fingers in front of your eyes and put them

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together like that?

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No.

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You can try that at home.

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Try and bring your fingers together and touch them.

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You need both eyes working together.

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If I close my eye, it's much, much harder.

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Lack of depth perception

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makes everyday activities a bit more difficult.

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Luckily for Ryan, there are people like Sharon,

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from the charity, Blind Children UK, to help.

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-Has Sharon been helpful for you?

-Yes.

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What's she been showing you?

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How to cross roads and how to cook and make drinks.

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Ryan's carrying a cane to let other people know that he's

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partially sighted.

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And he uses parked vehicles, as they offer some protection whilst

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allowing him to take up a good seeing

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and hearing position on the road.

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-Do you want to show me how to cross the road?

-OK.

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Well, first we'll feel if the engine's on or off.

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OK.

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We make sure it's off and we stand at the front,

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so if the driver is in it, he'll see us.

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Yeah, and so if he reverses we won't get flattened, either.

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Right. So this is all about not getting flattened.

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Yes.

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No flattening.

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Now, we're going to use our hand to trail along to the edge of the car.

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-So down, good.

-So, now, what do we do, Ryan?

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We are going to look and listen for a car.

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-So what do you think, are we safe to cross?

-No.

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-Aren't we?

-No.

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Oh, look at that, Ryan's completely right.

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I would have crossed the road.

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Ryan just heard a car before I did,

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that I would have just walked out in front of.

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How about now? Are we safe to cross?

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-Yes.

-Off we go.

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Ryan relies on his hearing as compensation for his lack of vision.

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-Great job.

-Thank you.

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How about a high five. Life saved.

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Chris, would you like to know what it's like to just use your hearing?

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Yeah, I would. Oh, an eye mask.

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Thank you very much.

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Of course, I'm not actually going to cross the road,

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as that would be dangerous.

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Also, Ryan is very used to his condition,

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so I reckon I'm at an disadvantage here.

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Where is... where is the car?

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Here we go, OK I've got the car.

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I can definitely hear a car now.

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I absolutely cannot tell what's a car coming toward us,

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what's that car going away.

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I would say it is now safe to cross.

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-It is safe to cross.

-It is safe to cross, OK.

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I have to say, I do not feel confident, even with you

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and Ryan advising me.

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There are other practical things that can help Ryan be more

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independent as well, like gadgets.

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So, Ryan, what are we doing here?

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Learning how to use a liquid level indicator.

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A liquid level indicator.

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As the water gets near the rim the emitter lets off a beep to

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let Ryan know the glass is almost full.

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-BEEPING

-Oh, hello.

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The indicator then makes a second faster beep when the liquid

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reaches the top of the glass and that's useful for adding squash.

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-Here.

-Oh, wow, now we're really about to spill.

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FASTER BEEPING

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Is this your kind of music?

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Yeah.

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That is literally the worst dance tune I've ever heard.

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Yeah.

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It's easy to forget how much we use our eyes for even the smallest

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things and for blind or partially sighted kids, like Ryan, these

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little things can be really tricky.

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Luckily with gadgets and special mobility training,

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Ryan can get on with the more important things in life,

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like dancing to the sound of his liquid level indicator.

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In accident and emergency, there's another

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patient in need of some help.

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-Let's go and meet him.

-Tim? He's called Mohammed.

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In Liverpool, nine-year-old Mohammed, is in accident

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and emergency after a fall at a fairground.

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I fell and twisted my leg.

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Let's find out more about Mohammed's agonising injury.

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It was a beautiful sunny day.

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Hang on, Chris, wasn't it the school holidays?

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-Oh, yeah.

-That's better.

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Perfect. So, Mohammed and his family went to the local funfair.

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Oh, look, there's candyfloss, my favourite.

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There are lots of rides, too.

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Can we go on the carousel? Or the pirate ship?

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Xander, we're not there.

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Mohammed is, and he's on a bouncy castle slide.

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Whee!

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He was having great fun bouncing up and down the slide,

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but then he bounced off the bottom and twisted his leg when he landed.

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Ouch!

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It hurts a lot.

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Here to delve a little deeper, is consultant, Mr Andrew Dapaah.

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Where is it most painful?

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On the top, here.

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Mr Dapaah checks how much movement Mohammed has in his leg.

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Can you just move your toes for me?

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-OK.

-Yeah, very good.

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Can you move your whole foot up a little bit?

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He's not managing to move it much there, Chris.

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-Is that painful?

-Yeah.

-OK.

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Mohammed has had some X-rays and it's clear there's a nasty break.

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Our X-rays have shown that he's got what

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we call a spiral fracture of his...

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Just at the bottom of his leg.

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Mohammed has a spiral fracture of the tibia,

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the big bone in his lower leg.

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A spiral fracture is caused by a twisting force along the bone.

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This kind of fracture is different, because the break is circular,

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not straight.

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Mohammed, you're doing fantastic, well done.

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So, now, Mohammed's getting a temporary cast called a back

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slab, so if his leg swells up, it won't get squashed.

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OK, you're all done there, mister.

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And then it's off to X-ray to make sure the cast is holding

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the bones in the correct position.

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Nice and still. Lovely, all done.

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And the verdict from the new X-ray?

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That all looks fine.

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I've chatted to my bosses about it, so we'll let you go home

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and then we'll see you back in a few days.

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-Is that all right?

-OK, yeah.

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And have we learned any lessons, Mohammed?

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I won't be going on a bouncy castle slide any more...

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Ever again.

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Fair enough.

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Mohammed's cast will be swapped in a few days for a full plaster one,

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but, for now, Mohammed and his temporary set of wheels

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-are off home.

-Bye, Mohammed.

-Bye.

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Next time on Operation Ouch...

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Meet our tiny new lab assistant.

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I've got mini-Xand to help me.

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More brains are baffled in Mindbenders.

0:27:360:27:38

That's crazy.

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And find out how scientists fight infectious disease.

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I'm about to show you how we do it.

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So, we'll see you next time.

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For more Operation Ouch!

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Chris, wait for me!

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Chris, would you like another glass of orange juice?

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Yes.

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Mmm! Smooth.

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