Smash the System Doctors

ALL: # All we are saying

# Is give peace a chance. #

-What do we want?

-Peace!

-When do we want it?

-Now!

-What do we want?

-Peace!

-When do we want it?

-Now!

ALL: # All we are saying... #

SHE TYPES

ALL: # All we are saying

# Is give peace a chance. #

ALL: No state, no war!

No state, no war!

No state, no war!

Would you like a leaflet? We're protesting against...

Call this a protest? My lot are protesting.

You're just standing there.

That's really strange, because I didn't know anarchists had leaders.

You think this changes anything?

Non-violent direct action. You should try it sometime...

WIMPS!

Yeah. Wimps!

Gandhi was a wimp, was he?

Get out my way!

-All right, love?

-No.

What, you're not still panicking about work, are you?

Why should I be panicking?

We've only got this new manager coming in,

we're all being assessed and we could lose our jobs!

Don't be daft. No-one'd sack you. Why would they?

"Last in, first out". I'm the newest one. That's why!

I'm trying to get ready for this evaluation,

accreditation, whatever it's called.

And I could've done with some support.

I cooked dinner last night and you didn't get in till ten o'clock!

OK, OK, C'mon, Mand, let's not be wife-y.

You said you'd be home, then you disappeared on some stupid protest,

Letherbridge University is getting its funding for the IT department

from a company that makes targeting software for missiles!

What? That doesn't matter?

-Sometimes you've got to look at the bigger picture, Mand...

-No!

You should get your priorities right.

And think about work sometimes.

Or me.

Right, you know what, if everyone was as apathetic as you,

women would never have got the vote, the Berlin Wall would never

have come down, and the Arab Spring would never have happened.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Mrs Tembe, thank you for coming in early.

The practice manager's position.

You gave an excellent interview.

Thank you, Doctor Carter. You can be sure that I...

I'm afraid you didn't get the job.

Oh...

Oh, I see.

Another outstanding candidate...

It's not to say you weren't very good.

But I was not good enough.

Thank you for letting me know.

Do not worry, Doctor Carter.

I will make sure that I hand over to the new manager.

And now let me go and make you a cup of tea.

-There's no need...

-No, no.

RADIO: 'Leatherbridge FM...'

What have I done now?

A woman got beat up at the protest.

Not the protest I was on.

Yes, Freya, that one.

How many protests were there at the university last night?

She was a cleaner, she was working.

Two protestors came and beat the crap out of her.

She's in hospital.

How do they know it was protestors?

There was no-one else there!

No, look, where'd you hear this?

It was on the news, just now.

Did you know about this?

There's nutters at every protest. Nothing, nothing to do with us.

You thought they were trouble. Why didn't you phone the police?

So they could make it worse?

So they could sort it out.

You really haven't been on many protests, have you? I have.

And trust me, they normally make it worse.

What are you saying, that they're all thugs?

Look, I don't know what you want me to say

or what I'm meant to have done...

Right. No, Freya! That's exactly the problem.

You don't take responsibility for anything!

Not work, not the protesting, not us.

Fine.

Let's just go and see if we still have jobs, shall we?

His name is Howard Bellamy. He's ex-military

and he's very...organised.

We thought he'd shake the place up. In a good way.

Kill me now...

He's worked for the PCT, so he speaks their language...

So you thought he'd get us through this re-evaluation thing...

Re-accreditation. Yes.

Howard, come and meet the troops.

Hello, all. Thanks for coming in early...

Mr Bellamy, I am Mrs Tembe. I have been Acting Practice Manager

since Mrs Parsons left.

-If there is anything you would like me to hand over to you...

-Thank you,

but I feel it's better to start fresh.

I've met the partners, I need a briefing with each of you today

and I'd also like to see the team in action.

Has someone left a baby on our doorstep or are doctors

really getting younger?

Joe's my son.

My partner Zara's at the other surgery at the campus.

We're not usually both in work on the same day,

but the babysitter let us down.

-So we should have someone by lunchtime...

-Good. Moving on.

Sorry, sorry, excuse me.

Howard Bellamy, Practice Manager.

Doctor Freya Wilson and Nurse Mandy Marquez.

Right, as you know,

this practice has been chosen for re-accreditation.

It's going to be a big week for all of us, a major challenge,

and I can't promise to get us through it but I'll do my best.

Some immediate, basic things need to be improved.

The cleanliness of the premises.

The staff should be tidy and professionally dressed.

I'm going to conduct my own mini-inspection today, so just think of it as a trial run. Questions?

Well, let's not keep the patients waiting.

Doctor Clay. Shall we catch up at lunchtime?

Actually, the wife and I -

Nurse Clay were hoping to go for a run at lunch time.

Well, I hardly think it's a priority just now, do you?

-May I suggest you exercise in your own time?

-Well...

lunchtime technically is our own time.

And it's important to be fit and set a good example for the patients.

Well, I agree...

Also, studies have shown that people are more productive in the afternoon

if they've been out at lunch, had some fresh air.

That's a point, I suppose.

Welcome to the Mill.

How long do I have to wait?

You can see the nurse when she's free. Take a seat.

-Fascist.

-I beg your pardon?!

You're a jobsworth.

As long as you're being paid you don't care that the heart's being ripped out of the NHS,

and being run by faceless bureaucrats and beancounters...

It's not my fault.

It is! People like you are part of the problem!

The working classes couldn't be oppressed if they didn't collude in their own oppression.

Oi! Wind your neck in, sunshine. What's your name?

I don't have to give you my name!

This ain't a fascist state.

Jeremy Curtis-Hall, he's a patient.

Rudeness or aggressive behaviour towards the staff will not be tolerated.

We have the right to refuse to treat you,

or to remove you from the patient list permanently, is that clear?

You can apologise to Mrs Hollins, now, or you can leave.

Sorry.

Jeremy Curtis-Hall?

Jez.

This way.

-You OK?

-Yeah.

Doctor Wilson, word in my office, please?

Yeah, sure.

Dust.

Do you think that's appropriate clothing for work?

I think most patients don't care what I wear,

as long as I'm a good doctor.

I disagree. You dress like a student.

It hardly inspires confidence.

I'd like to see proper, professional clothing from now on.

A smart trouser suit, for example.

You wouldn't want to let your colleagues down, would you?

-You do take this job seriously, don't you, Doctor Wilson?

-Yes, I do!

You failed your exams.

You're still a registrar... Effectively, a trainee.

while Doctor Tyler started here at the same time,

passed and has become a qualified GP.

I'm not going to fail my exams again.

I should hope not.

How did you do it?

It was the police. I was on a protest, last night.

-At the university?

-Yeah.

I heard it turned violent.

Yeah. They turned up and laid into us.

-Pushed me into this glass door...

-That is outrageous. You should...

What? Go to the police?

Don't think so.

Right, well, are you up to date with your tetanus injections?

I'll treat it as best I can.

But if it gets infected, you'll need to come back, or go to A&E, OK?

I'll ask one of the doctors to prescribe you some painkillers...

-Can I have...

-I'm with a patient.

Yeah, well, it's important so...

Sorry, I won't be a minute.

Well, he obviously doesn't want me here.

He suggested I was useless, incompetent...

He said that I dressed like a student.

Well, you do!

All right, so you had a telling-off.

Get over it, Freya.

Thank you. You know, I thought you might sympathise.

I'm trying to do my job.

I'm actually treating somebody who should probably be in hospital.

Well, why don't you send him to A&E, then?

You recognised him, didn't you? The lad I'm treating.

Jez.

I don't know him.

But he was on the protest last night.

He got beaten up by some police.

You know, that's two people who've been hurt. It could've been you...

Can we just forget about the protest, OK?

I'm trying to say I'm sorry.

And you were right, OK? I was wrong.

Yeah, it might be a good idea to sit down and prepare for Thursday

so it's not a complete disaster.

You've changed your tune. And your priorities.

I mean, what happened to the bigger picture?

Right now, Mand, I'm a little bit more worried about losing my job.

It's always about you, Freya.

What you want, what you think is important.

Even though you change your mind every five minutes.

Look, wait.

I don't know what happened to Anarchist Boy or anybody else on the protest.

Why? Because I came home to you. Because you asked me to.

I've never left a protest before.

I've never had anyone to come home to before.

This is me trying to compromise!

You do not compromise, you don't know the meaning of the word!

And if you can't see that, Freya...

I don't know what we're even doing together.

Then the fire alarm went off!

-The upshot is, he has to re-sit the whole exam.

-That's awful.

Anyone seen Howard?

He's in Julia's office, moving things around.

Great, come on! Let's go while the coast's clear.

He's not that bad. He helped me out with that patient. Stuck up for me.

He wants weekly staff meetings. Julia tried that, remember?

At least you got round him about us going running.

He's a bureaucrat. Just blind him with science. He doesn't understand medicine.

Oh! He's sorted out the fridge. Now, that is good.

You can actually find stuff.

I wonder what he did in the army?

Counted things.

-Probably said, "No more tanks till the next financial year."

-Come on, let's go.

I'm glad you thought of this. It's a good idea.

Can't believe you're going running after some mad patient attacked you!

Can't let something like that scare me off, can I?

Has anyone seen Mand?

She said she was going off on a house-call.

Trying to find a Howard-free zone.

Are you stupid? >

Hello?

How d'you know they haven't called the police? >

We're in trouble. Especially if that stupid woman dies.

You said they wouldn't be able to find us.

Yeah, well, they wouldn't, if you hadn't gone to a doctor!

Who's your friend?

You still need stitches. And I brought your prescription.

This isn't a good moment. I can come back.

Have you been listening?

Howard says I'm spending too long with patients.

he says the key to good service is "efficient patient throughput".

Can you believe that?

Don't worry about Howard. Save your breath for running.

You? You beat up that cleaner.

I didn't.

-Shut up!

-Get out of my way.

Right... Well, I'm phoning the police.

Oi! Hey, that's mine!

Property is theft.

Argh!

Jez, are you going to help or just stand there?

Right, upstairs, you!

-Just let me go, I won't tell anyone, I swear!

-I said shut up!

SHE SCREAMS

Scream as loud as you like, darling. No-one's going to hear.

Let me out!

-Look, maybe we should...

-Look, d'you want to be arrested?

< Please! Let me out!

Go to prison?

Pretty posh boy like you, I wouldn't rate your chances.

< You can't leave me in here!

Ouch!

Oh, just one more circuit.

-Do you have to go so fast?

-Do you have to talk all the time?

Save your concentration for the running. One more circuit!

I thought we were doing this together!

I thought that was the point!

KNOCK ON DOOR

Hello?

Let me out!

LET ME OUT!

Listen. Whoever's there.

I'm supposed to be back for afternoon surgery soon.

If I don't turn up, my colleagues'll be worried.

They know I'm here.

Look, you don't want the police turning up here.

If I stay missing, they will.

MOBILE RINGS

See?!

Mand, look, I'm really sorry, OK?

Can we just talk about this and sort it out?

Where are you, lovely? Will you ring me, please?

Or just turn your phone back on!

Ah, the runners return. What's happened to Doctor Clay?

Have you lost him?

He's right behind me... he'll be back in a minute.

He'll need to be. When you've showered and changed, perhaps we could have a catch-up.

My office, 15 minutes?

Er, hello? My arm's bleeding again.

Is that bad?

Let me out, let me take a look. Can't help you if I'm stuck in here.

Nice try. You must think I'm stupid.

You need medical treatment. That's what I came here for.

To do my job. It's important to me.

You must understand that?

There must be something that's important to you. Politics?

I'm not into politics.

The party political system is essentially rotten.

They're all corrupt.

-Look at the expenses scandal....

-What do you do about it?

Anarchy. Activism. You tear it down....

-You wouldn't understand.

-I might. Try me. You could convert me.

I'd read up about anarchy. I was looking for a group.

So I joined LUAS at the Fresher's Fair...

"Loo-Ass"?

Letherbridge University Anarchist Society.

I had a car, I could take people to demos, use this house for meetings.

Is it your house?

My dad's, actually. He's never around. Works in Dubai.

He's a banker.

He'd have a fit if he knew anarchists were meeting here.

And when Finn moved in...

-Finn's been living here?

-Don't get the wrong idea. We're not gay.

I didn't think you were.

He's a great bloke. Total headcase, but...

-Where is he now?

-He's gone.

So he's just left you here to...what? Guard me?

I suppose.

Sounds like he's dropped you in it.

It's not like that.

No? He's done a runner. In your car.

And left you here to take the blame.

Why are you doing what he says? I wouldn't.

-I don't take orders from him!

-Prove it. Let me go.

Let me out of here.

KNOCK ON DOOR

I wanted to talk to nurse Marquez.

-Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to be here.

-Mandy? She's not back yet?

Obviously not.

As her manager, I'd expect you to know where she is.

-I can give her a call on her mobile.

-Already tried. It seems to be off.

Is she always this casual about showing up for afternoon surgery?

Mandy? No. She's really conscientious.

She wouldn't be late without a good reason.

What are you going to do?

Dunno. I can't go to prison....

-Who says you will?

-Finn. And he knows. He's done time.

-Young offenders, and everything.

-Listen, I heard what Finn said.

-Sounds like he beat up that woman, not you.

-Yeah.

It would've been a brilliant protest,

-if Finn hadn't gone completely mental...

-What happened?

It was my idea. I researched it.

Found out about the university accepting blood-money from arms manufacturers.

How'd you find out? That's really clever.

It's all in the public domain.

No-one bothers to find out about it because no-one cares.

Some people do.

Anyway, Finn had been on at me, "You should organise a protest."

So I did.

We all went down the Senate House

but this other group got there first.

They were pathetic, standing there like lemons, waving their placards.

That woman from the surgery was there.

Doctor Wilson?

Dunno. Fat cow with a blokey haircut.

Anyway, she had a go at us and they all just stood there.

So we left them and went inside.

Smash the place up, that was the idea. You know, trash the computers.

I punched a glass door. That's how I did this!

So it wasn't the police?

What?

Well, no. They hadn't arrived yet.

Anyway, we were trying to get into the offices

but they were all locked, except one.

There was this woman, the cleaner.

She was stupid, basically.

She tried to stop us. Stood there with her Hoover, barring the way.

Finn lost it.

What did he do?

He hit her, she fell back, knocked herself out.

She was on the floor, and he was kicking her.

He spat on her. Gobbed in her face.

Then we ran for it.

You left her there, unconscious?

Yeah, well, I reckoned someone'd find her sooner or later.

Ah, we should have a catch-up.

Talk about this Granger Clinic of yours...

What's that on your shoulder?

Oh, baby sick. I was burping Joe...

Yes, all right.

My office, five minutes?

You should go to the police.

No way.

But you're a witness. You saw Finn attack her.

Kind of...

Look, it's complicated.

When Finn was kicking her, he kept shouting at me.

"Come on, get stuck in!"

-And you did?

-I didn't kick her.

I just sort of nudged her with my foot.

She was unconscious, she wouldn't have felt anything anyway...

I only did it to shut Finn up!

I can't go to the police.

-I will.

-That's not fair. I let you out. I rescued you.

It's not my fault.

OK, Finn...

Finn says there have to be sacrifices in any struggle...

Oh, the gospel according to Finn(!)

Freya was right about you...

You tricked me. Pretending to be interested, to listen.

To think, I felt sorry for you!

-To think I thought you were the victim!

-Shut up!

Finn's a psycho, but you! You're pathetic.

SHUT UP!

SHE SCREAMS

Ah, Doctor Tyler. Got a minute?

No, please! Please, stop! You're hurting me!

Stop moving!

Well, Nurse Marquez is fine, I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear.

She's with the police giving a statement. I'll have a debrief.

Well, I've had a very productive day, and I'm looking forward to working with all of you.

Now, the next objective is to get through the re-accreditation.

If do that, that's when the real work starts - making this practice

everything that it should be.

We could be doing a lot more -

like getting involved in research projects, drug trials.

It happens that I've been working on a project myself,

and I've asked Doctor Tyler to take the lead on it.

Right, we've all got plenty to do so thank you for your time

I'm sorry!

Are you OK?

Let's have a look.

Is every member of staff... part of a couple?

I've been looking at your job description.

It says nothing about tackling violent criminals.

I didn't know what was going to happen.

Perhaps because you rushed in without thinking.

I was concerned about a patient who said he'd been beaten up by the police...

Well, he lied. And, rather naively, you believed him.

That's because I don't start out assuming

all my patients are lying to me. I don't think that's naive.

I acted rashly, I accept that. But I was just trying to do my job.

Well.

I'd appreciate it if you can do it without being kidnapped, in future.

We can catch up properly tomorrow. I'll let you get off home.

Someone has to stand up to thugs like that.

Well done.

Why did you go there on your own without even telling anyone?

I don't know.

Because you're an idiot.

I'm sorry.

I should've been more supportive.

You know, I always thought if I was attacked, I'd be useless.

Helpless. And I wasn't. I handled it OK.

I feel like, if I can cope with that, I can survive anything.

Even Howard?

Howard doesn't scare me.

You've changed your tune.

Well, I think he could be good for the practice.

I think he could be a complete nightmare.

Just because he told you off about your clothes...

No, actually. It's got nothing to do with that.

He is a bureaucratic control freak.

It's people like him who suck the blood out of the NHS.

You know I'm right!

It's not going to be the same now he's in charge.

Please, not another row. I can't cope.

Sorry. I'm really sorry.

We need to get you to hospital.

No, what can they do?

Treat you.

Patients should always take priority.

You could have compromised their safety.

That's ridiculous!

Get back! I said get back!

-Staff room this way?

-No, it is...

Thank you, Mrs Tem.

"Be", Mrs Tem-BE.

Don't make excuses! Tell her the truth!

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