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Summer 2010, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:03 | |
and seven junior doctors hit the wards of Newcastle's hospitals. | 0:00:03 | 0:00:07 | |
Cardiac arrest. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:08 | |
One year later, as they're about to move on, | 0:00:08 | 0:00:12 | |
they're getting together for one last time. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
The sad thing about it all being over is, | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
a year down the line, we are all moving apart. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
They'll recall the tough times. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:21 | |
It was just so daunting on so many levels. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
-I felt like a rabbit in headlights, to be honest. -The fun times. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:30 | |
-# I really need you tonight! # -Their most memorable moments. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
Someone says, "You're the girl with the toilet brush!" | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
And I was like, "I was not WITH the toilet brush!" | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
-That is on fire! -It was like, oh, my God, everybody, it's a fire. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:44 | |
And moments they'd rather forget. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
Suzi is going to murder me, but there is a moment with a chip. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:51 | |
Cos you know, you've got... | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
What they learnt. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
If you're nervous, you have to hide it as much as you can. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
-Has he ever done it? -Oh, yeah, he's done it before. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
The nurses are our lifesavers. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
And where they're going next. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
I think it's time to go back to Hong Kong, where I come from. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
Just to not messing up too badly. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
August 2010, and these seven junior doctors were about to embark | 0:01:29 | 0:01:34 | |
on one of the most challenging times of their lives. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:38 | |
They were joining thousands of other junior doctors across the UK | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
who were starting work on the wards for the first time. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
One year on, they're coming together for the last time. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:53 | |
I'm doing a little bit more in terms of seeing patients | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
and making decisions. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
Now I do feel more like a doctor than I did. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
At the end of the year you're like, I kind of know what's going on. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
I know what I'm supposed to do and I know how to do it. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
I've changed loads. It's completely different | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
-from the start of the year. -I feel more like a doctor, but I think | 0:02:12 | 0:02:16 | |
that's because as I've improved throughout the year | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
people are treating me more like one. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
Maybe you just give the wrong impression. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
I think we've all learned a lot about medicine | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
and a lot about ourselves and how we deal with situations, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
-and that's all really good experience. -Yeah. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
Has anyone mastered the art of being in four places at once yet? | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
-No, I think you eventually... -Eventually, you'll have a junior doctor underneath and you can. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:41 | |
You can delegate that. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
12 months earlier, they were far less confident. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
I just keep telling myself that there's literally | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
tens of thousands of people in exactly my position | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
that will be going on the wards | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
and at least one of those people... | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
at least one of those people will make a worse mistake than me. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
Fresh out of med school were the first years | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
Adam, Lucy and Katherine. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:07 | |
It's the sort of profession | 0:03:07 | 0:03:08 | |
where people don't want to know if you're a beginner. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
You'll never be ready. You have to deal with it. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
Sharing a house with them were second years, | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
Andy, Suzi, Jon and Keir. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
I'm absolutely scared witless as well. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
And they'd already had a year's experience on the wards. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
You can make mistakes and people can die. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
And that's scary. Scares me quite a lot. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
Day one. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
Adam, Lucy and Katherine had only graduated a few weeks before. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:49 | |
Would it be possible to take that blood from you? | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
One of their first responsibilities was to take blood. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
Just tap on you to see if I can get them to stand up a bit better, OK? | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
When you first start to take blood, | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
you pray for somebody who's got veins you can see | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
from the other side of the room and can practically get with a dart. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
That's kind of how I feel and how I felt | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
when I first started taking blood on the wards. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
You dreaded the time the nurses said, | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
they're difficult to get blood from. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
And first year Katherine was about to encounter such a case. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
The arm's quite swollen. I think it'll be quite difficult. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:25 | |
I just can't see or feel the vein at all. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
If you're nervous, you have to try | 0:04:28 | 0:04:30 | |
and hide it as much as you can. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
I don't think it helps the patient if... | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
if it looks like you don't know what you're doing. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
I don't want to take it out of that arm. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
I could do your foot. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
-I can see a little one here. -If you put a tourniquet on... | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
Yeah. I'll put a tourniquet on. It's quite small. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
I don't know if I can make it bigger, though, with the tourniquet. | 0:04:55 | 0:05:00 | |
I'm really not convinced this is going to work. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:05 | |
'When you've been lying in bed with your feet up for three days | 0:05:05 | 0:05:09 | |
'it's not so easy to get blood out of.' | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
No, that's not going to go. Sorry about that. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
It's quite embarrassing to say I can't get blood. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
She was actually, um, | 0:05:21 | 0:05:22 | |
a nurse herself, so she completely sympathised with me | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
and so, you know, obviously I felt awful about it | 0:05:26 | 0:05:31 | |
but I tried not to beat myself up too much about it. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
I think Katherine demonstrated one example of something | 0:05:34 | 0:05:39 | |
that we all struggle with at some point. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
And if it's not blood taking, it might be something else. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
First year Adam HAD managed to take blood. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
Bit of a bruise, sorry. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
But struggled in other areas. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
Do you know what Addison's disease is? | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
Do you know what the original Addison's disease was? | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
Um... I'm trying to think of whether it was ac... | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
Is the original Addis...Addison's disease from, er, the pi... | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
-No, it's a primary, isn't it? -Yeah. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
Do you know what I'm thinking of? | 0:06:06 | 0:06:08 | |
Um, anyway, never mind. Another endocrine. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:11 | |
Go on. So, it's primary adrenal failure | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
and what did Addison describe on postmortem in the adrenal glands? | 0:06:13 | 0:06:17 | |
What was actually causing adrenal destruction? | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
-Was it an au... was it an autoimmune...? -No. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
-It was TB... -TB's... -..of the adrenal glands. -..the most worldwide. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
I'm sure I could talk about that in length now. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
However, at the time, | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
I was under so much pressure to make a good impression, | 0:06:33 | 0:06:35 | |
it just went straight out of my head. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
If I am asked on my first day what is Addison's disease, | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
I will tell that it's something that Dr Biani does not know what it is. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:48 | |
I didn't come out with it and it didn't sound right | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
and I looked like a fool. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:53 | |
I just felt like I'd made a really bad first impression. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
-I think you're too harsh on yourself. -Am I? Oh. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
Second year Suzi might have had a year's experience on the wards, | 0:07:03 | 0:07:09 | |
but her new placement was in A&E and she was scared. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
I woke up that day and I felt terrible | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
and I just thought, I do not want to go in today and start in A&E. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
First days are petrifying | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
and I think in our job, it's just a million times worse. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:25 | |
A&E lived up to its reputation. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
Suzi's first case was a cardiac arrest. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
It was like, "Go! | 0:07:32 | 0:07:33 | |
"Cardiac arrest, go!" And I was like, "Ahhhh! A&E!" | 0:07:33 | 0:07:37 | |
BEEPING | 0:07:37 | 0:07:38 | |
We're waiting for a cardiac arrest call to come in | 0:07:38 | 0:07:43 | |
so everyone's just waiting, ready to go. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
I'm just trying to get all my bits and pieces gathered. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
'Inside I just thought, oh, this is just the scariest thing.' | 0:07:51 | 0:07:56 | |
-Suzi, are you happy to pulse check? -Yeah. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
-Yeah, OK. Are you happy to shock? -Can do. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
-I haven't shocked anyone before. -You haven't? | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
-No. -OK. All right, we'll show you, then. OK. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
Looking back, it seems just getting through A&E | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
felt like a very long time. Like a lifetime! | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
SIREN WAILS | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
He arrested in an ambulance. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
The paramedics shocked him out of ETAC, he's now in sinus rhythm | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
with a blood pressure of 114/82, but he's... | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
he remains unconscious. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
We're in. I haven't got much blood off. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
I'll get some more on the other side as well. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:37 | |
The patient was unconscious, but his body was writhing | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
because of the shortage of oxygen to his brain, a difficult first case for Suzi. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
If you come round to that side, | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
the cricoid ring is underneath the Adam's apple. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
When he starts to go to sleep, direct pressure backwards into the bed. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
HE GROANS | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
All right. You're all right, well done. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
OK. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
30 minutes in, the patient was stabilised | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
and Suzi had passed her first big challenge. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:08 | |
I guess it's better to be thrown in at the deep end, | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
because you think, if can do that on my first day, I can do anything. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
I think Suzi did really well, you know, kept a cool head, | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
did things expected of her and she did them well. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
But I was glad that not every day was as tough as my first day. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
Some of them were, but others weren't as bad, thankfully. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
Some nice deep breaths in and out through the mouth. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
Second year Jon's new role was stressful too. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
I'm Dr Barclay, I'm one of the doctors | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
at the Emergency Admissions Unit at the RVI. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
As well as working on one of the most demanding wards | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
in the hospital, he was also part of the hospital's crash team. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:49 | |
That's scary because the first couple of minutes | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
of a cardiac arrest are important. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
Cardiac arrest! | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
If his alarm went off, it meant a medical emergency | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
and he had to get there quickly. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
This time, the patient had gone into cardiac arrest and her heart was failing. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:12 | |
The patient had no pulse. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
Jon started chest compressions to keep blood flowing around the body. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
Yeah, 29, 30. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
But with no heartbeat, time was running out. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
The team had done everything they could. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
Thanks, guys. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
You go through a range of emotions. There's obviously, sadness, | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
that someone's passed away, and someone's life's ended. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
Frustration that you have all this training | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
and there's thousands and thousands of pounds | 0:11:24 | 0:11:26 | |
have been invested in you as a doctor | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
and nothing that you can do or, you know, think about, | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
will be able to change the outcome for this patient. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
You get your first experience of failing to save somebody | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
very quickly and very abruptly. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
First year Lucy was about to learn this herself, | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
working with some acutely ill patients on the gastro ward. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
I am quite a sensitive and emotional person | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
and I saw some lovely patients who were really unwell | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
and I found it very difficult in my first job. | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
As part of her ongoing training, | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
Lucy would accompany consultant Dr Gun on the ward round. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
And what is it you've been noticing? | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
First of all I completely lost my appetite. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
-I think I've lost at least a stone and a half. -OK. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:16 | |
Your tummy then, when did that start to swell up? | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
I'm not sure, but it's got increasingly worse. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
The patient had a number of tests to determine the problem. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:28 | |
Lucy helped Dr Gun assess the X-ray. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
Bowel-wise there looks like gaseous dilation on the left-hand side. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
But here, there's this... | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
this sort of central dilated small bowel. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
And we know she's obstructing radiologically, | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
and clinically, cos she's acutely distended. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
So, she's in trouble. I need to assess her clinically, | 0:12:43 | 0:12:47 | |
but my gut feeling is, we should be conservative - | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
this is only going to get worse. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
There isn't an operation to help with this, | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
palliative or otherwise. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
Dr Gun made the final diagnosis - pancreatic cancer. | 0:12:55 | 0:13:00 | |
In this case, the condition was terminal. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
The patient was just a lovely, lovely lady. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
She was cheerful, happy, | 0:13:06 | 0:13:08 | |
and we were about to literally destroy that glint in her eye. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
I put myself in her shoes and thought, | 0:13:12 | 0:13:13 | |
how do you deal with someone telling you that information? | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
Dr Gun had to break the news, and Lucy accompanied her. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:24 | |
This poor lady we've seen today | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
has been told some of the worst news... | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
well, the worst news that she's ever going to hear, ever. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
Her life has literally been taken away from her like that. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
And she's just been told, right, you're going to go home to die. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
It's awful. So... | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
Yeah, anyway... | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
Is there anything else you want me to do for her today? | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
Is it all sorted? | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
-You all right? -Yeah. Fine. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
Sure? I know, it's sad, isn't it? | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
She's...she's got good family support, which helps a lot, | 0:14:17 | 0:14:21 | |
and we'll get her feeling better. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
The most important thing now is quality of life, | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
which we can definitely improve. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
I'm fine. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:29 | |
I know, it's horrible, and the difficulty is... | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
I was all right and suddenly it sort of just came over me. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
That's all right and I won't be nice cos that'll make it worse. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
All right. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:39 | |
-Thank you. But that's it for today? -Yeah, thanks, Lucy. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
Brilliant, OK, no problem. It's all right. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
What I hoped was I would perhaps be able to hide my emotions a bit more at work. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:49 | |
You don't expect your doctor on the wards to get upset or to cry over you | 0:14:49 | 0:14:54 | |
or over their patients, but at the same time | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
we all have those emotions and we all really care. | 0:14:57 | 0:14:59 | |
That's why we do the job. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
Are you OK? | 0:15:01 | 0:15:02 | |
Just knackered and had a shit day. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:04 | |
It's one thing caring within yourself and it's another thing | 0:15:04 | 0:15:08 | |
actually showing that and, you know, | 0:15:08 | 0:15:10 | |
you could just hug and kiss Lucy when you see her crying about a patient, | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
you know, cos she's sincere with it. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
It just left me completely drained. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
I sort of sat there and I was just like... | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
So, anyway, that was my day. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
Do you need a hug? | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
Maybe. Thanks. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:27 | |
I honestly think it should get to you. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
I know it sounds weird | 0:15:31 | 0:15:32 | |
but I think the day that you stop being affected | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
by the amount of suffering that's going on around you is probably the day you should leave. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:40 | |
With more experience of kind of death and dying and people being unwell | 0:15:40 | 0:15:44 | |
you never accept it, but you find better coping mechanisms. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:52 | |
So, you... It's not that you care less, | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
it's that maybe you deal with it better. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
I now understand more that, you know, | 0:15:57 | 0:16:01 | |
medicine isn't about being a superhero. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:03 | |
It's about being a good doctor and doing the best you can for someone, | 0:16:03 | 0:16:07 | |
even if eventually that means, unfortunately, you can't save their life. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
Being a junior doctor is a very stressful job. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:29 | |
They worked hard and they played hard too. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:34 | |
We work weekends and evenings and things like that | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
so the time we do have off is quite precious | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
and we like to use it wisely. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
And no-one played harder than Jon. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
The thing is, right, Jon Barclay is a rugby player. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:55 | |
And he's a drummer. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
He's always on an adrenaline rush. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:02 | |
# Jon Barclay is a horse's arse. # | 0:17:02 | 0:17:06 | |
THEY CHEER | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
I tried to fill my spare time, as it was, | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
with as many extracurricular activities as I could. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
Rugby kind of has a bit of a niche | 0:17:25 | 0:17:26 | |
for people of my size and with my abilities. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:31 | |
It can be hard to fit in with my schedule sometimes. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
The time constraints of the job make it hard, but my job's my job, | 0:17:37 | 0:17:41 | |
but this is kind of my fun. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
# Jon Barclay You suffer from morbid obesity | 0:17:49 | 0:17:55 | |
# And you're gonna die young Jon Barclay! # | 0:17:55 | 0:18:00 | |
On top of a jam-packed social life, Jon also had to revise. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:09 | |
I'm studying at the moment for my first part of my surgical exams. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:13 | |
I've got a pretty thick book | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
to revise from, | 0:18:16 | 0:18:17 | |
and I've got two of these to get through. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
But Jon also worked on | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
one of the most demanding wards in the hospital, the Emergency Assessment Unit. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:27 | |
He needs bloods, he needs bloods, he needs bloods, oh. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:32 | |
The combination of hectic social life, revision | 0:18:32 | 0:18:35 | |
and a week of night duty meant one thing. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
Jon was exhausted. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
The time is now quarter to four in the morning. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
Really, it was kind of my decision as to how far I thought I could push myself, | 0:18:42 | 0:18:47 | |
how much I thought I had left in the tank as to how much extra stuff I could fit in. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
I booked my exam before I knew what my rota was and that was the pro... | 0:18:51 | 0:18:55 | |
that is the risk you take | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
and it came back to bite me in the ass a bit, really. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:03 | |
Right, I'd better see this lady. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:07 | |
Where is she? | 0:19:07 | 0:19:09 | |
Left. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
Hello. My name's Jon, I'm one of the doctors. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:17 | |
This has been the busiest three days I've had as a doctor, I think. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:41 | |
In just a few days, Jon would be facing his surgical exam, | 0:19:43 | 0:19:47 | |
but even that didn't stop him. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:49 | |
In three hours' time I've got rugby training | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
and then I've got my last night. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
So, I'm pretty tired. I might just go and fall asleep. | 0:19:56 | 0:20:02 | |
Exam results. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:13 | |
There was a price to pay for Jon's ethos of work hard, play harder. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:18 | |
Right, | 0:20:18 | 0:20:20 | |
I didn't pass. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
Priorities have shifted. I'm not captain any more, so that takes a bit of pressure off. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:29 | |
But then my relationship with my girlfriend's now pretty serious | 0:20:31 | 0:20:35 | |
so maybe any free time that I could have generated by not doing rugby | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
now I'll spend with her, so I'm always... | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
I'm always finding stuff to do. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
He might have failed the surgery exam first time around | 0:20:43 | 0:20:48 | |
but Jon's not giving up. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:49 | |
I think the future for me, I'm still hoping to become a surgeon, | 0:20:49 | 0:20:53 | |
so I'll try and do orthopaedics, which is broken bones | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
and, you know, mangled knees and things like that. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
And do that for a year and see where that takes me. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
Although most of the housemates knew one another before the series, | 0:21:06 | 0:21:11 | |
living together cemented their friendship. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
Ultimately, one of the most important traits in any doctor is maturity. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:19 | |
Take that off. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
I think we all got on really well in the house, actually. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
You're gross. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
Oh...! | 0:21:27 | 0:21:28 | |
I think the most likely person to keep everyone entertained in the house is Keir. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:32 | |
I was thinking of opening a bottle of fizzy. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
I think you'd have to say Jon! | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
Probably a combination of Keir and Jon together. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
Yeah, yeah, Keir and Jon together, | 0:21:44 | 0:21:47 | |
cos Keir alone's one thing, | 0:21:47 | 0:21:48 | |
Jon alone he'll just sit down and eat something, | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
but then when they're together, singing, piano. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
-They're a double act. Yeah. -They're a double act. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
# Turn around Every now and then I get... # | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
So, it's like Laurel and Hardy, you know. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
Yeah. Hale and Pace. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
Yeah, Trinny and Susannah. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:06 | |
# Turn around, bright eyes Every now and then... # | 0:22:06 | 0:22:09 | |
Oh, sorry, sorry. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
That's one for the outtakes. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:12 | |
Jon actually is a very talented singer. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:16 | |
Yeah, and he's a pretty good pianist as well. He carried my awful singing. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:20 | |
# We'll only be making it right | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
# I really need you tonight... # | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
And it seemed that Adam wanted to get to know one of the housemates | 0:22:25 | 0:22:31 | |
better than the others. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:32 | |
How does this girl, who was never in my life previously, | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
now still not really in my life. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
I think I had good chemistry with Suzi. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:39 | |
I think she's a nice girl, she had a good personality, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
I got on with her well, | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
and she's an attractive girl. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
-Can I have your number? -Can you have... | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
OK, I've already got it. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
-You've already got my number. -Can I have a kiss? | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
Suzi is, you know, bubbly and cute and good looking and outgoing, so that helps. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
Suzi is going to possibly murder me for bringing this up, but there is a moment with a chip. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:02 | |
Oh, look at that. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:04 | |
Which looks a little bit Lady and the Tramp. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
I love pepper. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:11 | |
Dirty laundry. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
Public. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:31 | |
Don't look at me. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:35 | |
-Well, I just... -Don't say Adam and look at me. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:38 | |
-Well, I don't know because, you know, you've got... -Don't feed me things! | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
Just because I ate a chip out of Adam's hand, | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
-I got the rumour mill spinning around. -Oh, I know. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:50 | |
Nothing happened with me and Adam. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:55 | |
I'm sorry to disappoint everyone. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:56 | |
Adam's lovely, but he's just not my kind of guy. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
But it wasn't discussions of Suzi's love life that took up most of the time. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:12 | |
It was discussions about the state of her bedroom. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
Suzi is a delight to live with, an absolute delight, | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
as long as you don't go anywhere near her bedroom. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
I mean, I have seldom seen anywhere that has been "tidied" | 0:24:25 | 0:24:30 | |
and is as suitable for animal habitation. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:34 | |
There'd be stuff on the floor that wouldn't move because it was superglued to the floor | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
because it had been there for so long, it had moulded into the floor. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
Bombsite. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
You can't see your feet. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:45 | |
Yeah, it was like a pink version of Basra. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
Her parents tidied if for her. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:51 | |
I haven't had time to tidy. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
Da-daa! | 0:24:54 | 0:24:55 | |
Oh, Suzi. Oh, Suzi. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
Right, bin liner and skip, Suzi. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:00 | |
I'm just wondering why I can't find anywhere to walk. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:04 | |
I've done... I was up till one o'clock tidying last night. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:09 | |
Wash, wash. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
-What's this here for? -I was cleaning a surface. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
You keep telling us that normal life is impossible. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:17 | |
Normal life IS impossible. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
Last week I worked five 14-hour shifts and two 12-hour shifts. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:24 | |
I then came home, went to sleep, got up, had a shower, | 0:25:24 | 0:25:27 | |
ate, like, some chocolate and then went back to work again. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:31 | |
-I'm a messy person, OK. -Yes, you are. Yes, you are. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
And I can accept that I am messy and untidy at home. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
I can assure everyone that at work, I'm very organised. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:41 | |
If I had to choose whether to be organised at work or at home, | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
I'd rather be organised at work, so my excuse... | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
-Can you not choose whether to be organised or whether to be disorganised? -No...! | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
-That's the decision I made. -My mum can't understand how I can be one and not be the other. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
-But it's true. -I'm on her side. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
-You're on my mum's side? Thank you. -Yeah, I'm sorry. | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
Oops. Can I just get back into bed for the rest of the day? | 0:26:00 | 0:26:04 | |
Your room looks like you've spent the last week in bed anyway. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:07 | |
I don't want you to overdo it today. I don't want you to get stressed out. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:12 | |
-Let's go and crack this egg open. -Right, Suzi, coffee time. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:16 | |
I'm messy but I've always been messy and I know that... | 0:26:16 | 0:26:20 | |
I've had lots of people comment on it and go, "Oh, my god, you're so messy! | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
"I can't believe that you're that untidy." | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
I am. People need to just get over it! | 0:26:28 | 0:26:32 | |
Even though some of them were living like teenagers... | 0:26:36 | 0:26:41 | |
the first years were getting grown-up salaries for the first time. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:45 | |
The average junior doctor gets paid about £30,000 a year, | 0:26:45 | 0:26:48 | |
so it is quite nice to be paid, as shallow as that sounds. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
Please be paid, please be paid. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
I'm the only one who hasn't received a pay slip. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
I think that I gave them the wrong...the wrong National Insurance number. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:04 | |
Yes, I got paid! Sweet. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
Having actually £99 in credit was just awesome. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
I was like, I've not been in credit for years. This is brilliant. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:17 | |
I have more debt now than I finished medical school with. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
Because as your gains increase, your expenditure increases as well. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
As fully paid up doctors, they had to learn to be professional | 0:27:27 | 0:27:32 | |
at all times, whatever they encountered. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:36 | |
Tell me about what's been going on, then. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
Basically, I went to the bathroom about 2.30, | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
-3 o'clock this morning. -Yep. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
I've just moved into the property so I haven't got carpets throughout. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:46 | |
My bathroom floor was a bit wet, I slid off the toilet seat. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:50 | |
Right next to the toilet seat was a toilet brush | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
and I've landed literally on it. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
The patient said he's slipped in his bathroom | 0:27:55 | 0:27:58 | |
and landed on the toilet brush, which was now stuck up his bottom. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:02 | |
Have you been able to get any of it out? | 0:28:02 | 0:28:04 | |
Has any of it broken off at all? | 0:28:04 | 0:28:06 | |
No, right. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:08 | |
And you just tried kind of pulling at it and things? | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
Tried easing it in the shower. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 | |
But it just seemed it was catching and... | 0:28:14 | 0:28:17 | |
HE GROANS IN PAIN | 0:28:17 | 0:28:18 | |
I'm sorry. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:19 | |
Back up again, all right? | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
-It brings tears to your eyes, I tell you. -I'm sure it does. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
I'm sorry to embarrass you today, ladies. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:29 | |
-Don't be silly, it's fine. -I'm more embarrassed myself. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:34 | |
Back in a second, all right. I'll get you some painkillers. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
There was a danger that the toilet brush had torn a hole in his bowel | 0:28:37 | 0:28:41 | |
and if this wasn't treated, he could have died. | 0:28:41 | 0:28:44 | |
Really fast, James. This man, he's had some PR bleeding around it. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:48 | |
-Toilet brush stuck up... -I can't see how much more of it there is. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:52 | |
-Do we give him an X-ray first? -Is it...? Right... | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
-Is it actually poking out the end? -Mmm. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:58 | |
Can you see the...? | 0:28:58 | 0:29:00 | |
-It's like... -I think that probably needs referring to the surgeons. | 0:29:00 | 0:29:04 | |
That's fine, that's what I thought. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:07 | |
Someone needs to pull it out, but if it's been bleeding... | 0:29:07 | 0:29:10 | |
-I would refer it to them and let them take it out. -That's fine. | 0:29:10 | 0:29:13 | |
Looking back, keeping a straight face was so hard but, you know, | 0:29:13 | 0:29:19 | |
it's my job to sort out what's going on with that patient. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:22 | |
-We need to get you an X-ray done, OK? -Right. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:26 | |
To make sure that there's no hole in the bowel. | 0:29:26 | 0:29:28 | |
But it was so hard for him to come into A&E. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:31 | |
'It would have been mean to laugh in his face.' | 0:29:31 | 0:29:33 | |
So, if I leave you to get sorted and then I'll come back | 0:29:33 | 0:29:37 | |
and then we'll get a porter to bring you round to X-ray, OK. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:40 | |
-Champion. -Is that all right? | 0:29:40 | 0:29:42 | |
'I haven't had anything else kind of embarrassing happen.' | 0:29:42 | 0:29:46 | |
But there's worse things I could have done in my career, I think. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:50 | |
Potentially. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:51 | |
But for first year Adam, who always wanted to be a doctor, the thrills of A&E seemed a long way away. | 0:29:54 | 0:30:00 | |
I was jealous of Suzi in the thick of it in A&E. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:05 | |
As a first year doctor, I was doing simpler tasks. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
Oh, God, what's the dose of that? | 0:30:08 | 0:30:10 | |
I forgot what she said. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:12 | |
I had massive ambition | 0:30:14 | 0:30:15 | |
and I wanted to, you know, save the world and do all that kind of stuff | 0:30:15 | 0:30:19 | |
and I was doing paperwork. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
Um... | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
One gram. | 0:30:23 | 0:30:25 | |
OK, so that's TDS. TDS means three times a day. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:28 | |
It felt like I was drowning in it. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:34 | |
At one point, I think I was in a back room for eight hours | 0:30:34 | 0:30:38 | |
just doing discharges. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:40 | |
Mm... | 0:30:40 | 0:30:42 | |
And I did not see a patient all day. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:44 | |
And that's when I wanted to quit! | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
60 to 70% of the job's probably paperwork, I reckon. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:53 | |
I think people watch Casualty and ER and Holby City and think, | 0:30:53 | 0:30:57 | |
you know, the life of a junior doctor is running round saving lives | 0:30:57 | 0:31:00 | |
and actually, most of what we do is pretty mundane. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:03 | |
And when Adam wasn't doing paperwork, he was taking blood. | 0:31:05 | 0:31:09 | |
Bloods or paperwork? | 0:31:09 | 0:31:10 | |
Back at the house, Adam let off steam. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:22 | |
Guys, I don't think being a doctor's all it's cracked up to be. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
It's just being, you know, like a ward bitch. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:28 | |
You're saying that you feel experienced enough to be a doctor. | 0:31:28 | 0:31:31 | |
Do you feel ready to give somebody the diagnosis | 0:31:31 | 0:31:35 | |
-that they've only got three weeks to live? -Yes. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
Are you sure you can tell someone they've only got weeks to live, | 0:31:38 | 0:31:41 | |
because that took me a long time | 0:31:41 | 0:31:44 | |
to actually have the courage to say that to somebody. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:47 | |
It's not easy. | 0:31:47 | 0:31:48 | |
There's nothing more I can do without actually being a doctor, | 0:31:48 | 0:31:51 | |
so yeah, I do feel ready. | 0:31:51 | 0:31:53 | |
I need the experience now to hone my skills and to.. | 0:31:53 | 0:31:58 | |
I think it's quite dangerous, in a sense, to have that... | 0:31:58 | 0:32:03 | |
that understandable confidence that says, I'm ready to be a doctor. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:08 | |
These are the sort of things that you only get from...decades of experience. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:13 | |
That is on fire! | 0:32:13 | 0:32:15 | |
It was just a hilarious moment where Keir was like, | 0:32:22 | 0:32:26 | |
"You think you can tell someone that they have days to live?" | 0:32:26 | 0:32:30 | |
And, "Oh, my God, it's a fire! Everybody, it's a fire!" | 0:32:30 | 0:32:35 | |
Everybody, flap, flap, and then he just came with this fire blanket | 0:32:35 | 0:32:39 | |
and just threw the fire blanket on the sizzling piece of paper. | 0:32:39 | 0:32:43 | |
It was just the worst and best timing ever. | 0:32:43 | 0:32:47 | |
A year on, Adam has been doing jobs in intensive care, | 0:32:47 | 0:32:52 | |
doing all sorts of procedures on very critically ill people | 0:32:52 | 0:32:56 | |
and learning an awful lot about complex medicine. | 0:32:56 | 0:33:00 | |
Now I do the same amount of paperwork, | 0:33:00 | 0:33:02 | |
but my job's really different | 0:33:02 | 0:33:03 | |
and I feel like I have a lot of clinical responsibilities | 0:33:03 | 0:33:07 | |
and, you know, that's really nice, so I don't mind. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:11 | |
It's just the amount of the day it took up and the fact that I was rubbish at it as well. | 0:33:11 | 0:33:15 | |
Whilst Adam came to terms with the realities of the job, | 0:33:15 | 0:33:20 | |
all of the junior doctors were beginning to realise | 0:33:20 | 0:33:23 | |
the benefits of working as a team. | 0:33:23 | 0:33:25 | |
The nurses are your best friends and they have to be. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
They are life-savers, to be honest. | 0:33:30 | 0:33:33 | |
They were there to support us, they were there to give you advice. | 0:33:33 | 0:33:37 | |
I always make a point of saying, "I know you're new, | 0:33:37 | 0:33:40 | |
"it must be horrible. | 0:33:40 | 0:33:41 | |
"If there's anything you're unsure of, ask." | 0:33:41 | 0:33:44 | |
-Did you know you could get medical degrees off iPhones? -Um... | 0:33:44 | 0:33:49 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:33:49 | 0:33:51 | |
I think any way you can build rapport with the people that you work with is good | 0:33:51 | 0:33:56 | |
because you need to build relationships | 0:33:56 | 0:33:59 | |
to kind of work effectively as a team. | 0:33:59 | 0:34:02 | |
Get your bloods done? | 0:34:02 | 0:34:04 | |
But good communication skills didn't come naturally for second year Andy. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:10 | |
I found that I didn't fit in immediately in the beginning | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
and it took me a while to understand. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:17 | |
We work well on here cos we work as part of a team and we expect | 0:34:17 | 0:34:21 | |
good communication, and if you're not prepared to communicate | 0:34:21 | 0:34:24 | |
and work within the team then you get pretty short shrift, | 0:34:24 | 0:34:27 | |
particularly if it's busy. | 0:34:27 | 0:34:29 | |
When it came to treating his patients, | 0:34:29 | 0:34:32 | |
Andy knew what he wanted to do | 0:34:32 | 0:34:34 | |
and had to consult his seniors. | 0:34:34 | 0:34:37 | |
But he sometimes left the nurses out of the loop. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:43 | |
What's your plan for him? | 0:34:43 | 0:34:46 | |
My current plan is to get bloods and get X-ray. | 0:34:46 | 0:34:48 | |
-Have you spoken to orthopaedics? -Not yet. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
I'm asking our reg to have a look at him first and see what he thinks. | 0:34:51 | 0:34:55 | |
Then orthopods would ask for an X-ray before they would. | 0:34:55 | 0:34:59 | |
'I like to have a good idea of the characters around | 0:34:59 | 0:35:01 | |
'before I interact with them.' | 0:35:01 | 0:35:04 | |
It, in strange way, helps me be professional. | 0:35:05 | 0:35:10 | |
Andy tries to come over as very professional | 0:35:12 | 0:35:16 | |
and, for him, professionalism is kind of being slightly detached. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:19 | |
Sometimes you've got to grab him by the scruff of the neck | 0:35:19 | 0:35:22 | |
and say, "For goodness sake lighten up!" | 0:35:22 | 0:35:24 | |
The nurses on Andy's ward didn't give up on him | 0:35:24 | 0:35:27 | |
and devised a plan to make him part of the team. | 0:35:27 | 0:35:31 | |
We're having a ward night out | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
and we just wondered if you'd fancy joining us, Andy? | 0:35:33 | 0:35:36 | |
-You made it sound more scary than it should be. -No, it's not scary. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:40 | |
No, not just me and you on a night out. An actual ward night out. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:43 | |
-I got that bit. -There's nothing to be scared about. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:46 | |
-Yes, I would love to. -A really nice bonding session to get to know you. | 0:35:46 | 0:35:50 | |
And then you can see what we're like when we're out socially. | 0:35:50 | 0:35:54 | |
'The ward is very social but he's not been out with us yet.' | 0:35:54 | 0:35:57 | |
We're going to take him round town and get him into the mood of things. | 0:35:57 | 0:36:00 | |
Working on a ward is all about building relationships | 0:36:00 | 0:36:04 | |
and whether you do that with a pen in your hand or a drink in your hand | 0:36:04 | 0:36:07 | |
-is neither here nor there. -I'll be in a bad state tomorrow, but yeah, what the hell. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:13 | |
And after a few drinks, a very different Andy emerged. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:19 | |
It's great having Andy out. A good character. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:22 | |
He's having a great laugh and I think we're getting to know the real Andy. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:26 | |
I think you had some impressive dance moves there, Andy. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:34 | |
All I think is, now the whole nation knows I can not dance. | 0:36:34 | 0:36:38 | |
Andy obviously has his own style, which we appreciate, | 0:36:47 | 0:36:50 | |
and that's something we'll just have to improve on in the future. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:54 | |
The night has been amazing. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:58 | |
I never knew how much fun the people I work with are outside work. | 0:36:58 | 0:37:05 | |
-OK, one drink. -One drink. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
Andy has now finished his junior doctor training in Newcastle | 0:37:08 | 0:37:12 | |
and has decided to make a big move. | 0:37:12 | 0:37:14 | |
I've lived in Britain for 12 years now. | 0:37:14 | 0:37:17 | |
I love the country, but I think it's time to go back | 0:37:17 | 0:37:21 | |
to Hong Kong, where I come from. | 0:37:21 | 0:37:23 | |
I don't think I'll ever leave medicine. | 0:37:23 | 0:37:25 | |
I just can't think of a career that I would enjoy more | 0:37:25 | 0:37:30 | |
than what I'm doing right now. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:32 | |
You're cold? Well, can I open up this blanket a bit for you | 0:37:35 | 0:37:38 | |
so it's a bit more round you? | 0:37:38 | 0:37:40 | |
A few months into their rotations, | 0:37:40 | 0:37:42 | |
the junior doctors were starting to find their place in the team | 0:37:42 | 0:37:46 | |
and even forge relationships with some of the longer-term patients. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:50 | |
One of the challenges I faced when I first got onto the wards | 0:37:50 | 0:37:53 | |
was learning how to communicate with patients. | 0:37:53 | 0:37:55 | |
You have to learn quickly. | 0:37:55 | 0:37:57 | |
Margaret, where are you going with your table? | 0:37:57 | 0:38:01 | |
-Just down there. -I'll take it back for you, if you like. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:04 | |
'We had a lovely lady on Ward 48 when I was on there called Margaret | 0:38:04 | 0:38:08 | |
'who had come in with various things but had a background of dementia.' | 0:38:08 | 0:38:13 | |
Oh, Margaret, come on. Away. Come on. | 0:38:13 | 0:38:16 | |
He's not breathing. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:17 | |
'Some days she was really confused and quite distressed.' | 0:38:17 | 0:38:21 | |
My husband hasn't had anything to eat today, as far as I know. | 0:38:21 | 0:38:24 | |
'Other days she was clear in her thinking | 0:38:24 | 0:38:26 | |
'and quite aware of everything that was going on.' | 0:38:26 | 0:38:31 | |
It's hard to change the way you are with somebody on a day-to-day basis. | 0:38:31 | 0:38:35 | |
You tailor communication with a patient to how they are on the day. | 0:38:35 | 0:38:38 | |
Aren't they wonderful pictures? | 0:38:38 | 0:38:41 | |
Who brought these in for you? Your daughter? | 0:38:41 | 0:38:43 | |
She brought them in. | 0:38:43 | 0:38:45 | |
Is this you? | 0:38:45 | 0:38:47 | |
That's me, yes, when I was 18. | 0:38:47 | 0:38:49 | |
-Look at your hair. -Loads. -Amazing, isn't it? | 0:38:49 | 0:38:53 | |
You're opened up and let into someone's life. | 0:38:53 | 0:38:56 | |
You've been a part of something difficult with them | 0:38:56 | 0:38:59 | |
and it's such a privilege, really is. | 0:38:59 | 0:39:02 | |
-Thank you for showing me these. Gorgeous. -Lovely, aren't they? | 0:39:02 | 0:39:06 | |
Like Adam and Katherine, Lucy's staying in Newcastle | 0:39:06 | 0:39:09 | |
and will get a chance to try out specialities | 0:39:09 | 0:39:11 | |
as a second year junior doctor. | 0:39:11 | 0:39:14 | |
I've enjoyed everything I've done so far and I love learning new things. | 0:39:14 | 0:39:18 | |
I don't know where I'm going, but in ten years' time | 0:39:18 | 0:39:21 | |
I still will be working as a doctor. | 0:39:21 | 0:39:23 | |
Hello. How are you? | 0:39:27 | 0:39:30 | |
In A&E, second year Suzi also developed a good rapport with her patients. | 0:39:30 | 0:39:35 | |
But she was learning there were times to put down boundaries. | 0:39:35 | 0:39:38 | |
When did this happen? | 0:39:38 | 0:39:40 | |
Probably, like, four hours ago now. I've been sat here for ages. | 0:39:40 | 0:39:44 | |
That's A&E for you, I'm afraid. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:47 | |
I've literally never had so much fun in hospital before. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:51 | |
Well, that's good. | 0:39:51 | 0:39:53 | |
-Are you a student doctor? -No. Fully qualified. | 0:39:53 | 0:39:56 | |
Just look over that door handle, please. | 0:39:56 | 0:39:59 | |
I'm going to shine this into your eyes. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:02 | |
Where is it most sore, if it's sore anywhere? Nose. | 0:40:02 | 0:40:06 | |
Nose, yeah, just there. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:08 | |
-Is it broken? -I think it probably is, yeah. | 0:40:08 | 0:40:10 | |
-Are you going to break it back for me and put it into place? -No. -Why? | 0:40:10 | 0:40:14 | |
What we do here is you get seen at the Freeman | 0:40:14 | 0:40:18 | |
after the swelling has gone down. | 0:40:18 | 0:40:20 | |
Give them a call and they'll do it for you. | 0:40:20 | 0:40:22 | |
All right? Do you have any other questions about anything? | 0:40:22 | 0:40:25 | |
Can I have your phone number? | 0:40:25 | 0:40:28 | |
-You can't have my phone number. No, sorry. -Ahhhh! | 0:40:29 | 0:40:33 | |
This has ruined my A&E experience. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:36 | |
-I'm sorry, I'm sorry. -Is that your phone number? | 0:40:36 | 0:40:39 | |
No. This is the number that you call about your nose. | 0:40:39 | 0:40:42 | |
Patients that flirt with you is a weird thing to have to deal with. | 0:40:42 | 0:40:47 | |
It's very flattering and I kind of thought, wow, you know, | 0:40:47 | 0:40:51 | |
it's in the middle of the night and I'm wearing scrubs | 0:40:51 | 0:40:54 | |
and I've been stuffing my face with loads of food and someone thinks | 0:40:54 | 0:40:58 | |
I'm not like the back end of a bus and that's nice, you know. | 0:40:58 | 0:41:01 | |
-But it's hard. I didn't know what I should be doing. -You look lovely tonight. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:06 | |
Suzi, you're the best doctor ever. | 0:41:08 | 0:41:10 | |
You're the best trainee doctor ever. No, not trainee doctor. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:13 | |
You're the best freshly 16-month qualified doctor ever. | 0:41:13 | 0:41:16 | |
OK. That's very kind. Thank you. | 0:41:16 | 0:41:19 | |
Yeah! | 0:41:21 | 0:41:23 | |
Oh, bless him. Thank you. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:28 | |
Yeah! | 0:41:28 | 0:41:29 | |
I think now sometimes I choose carefully | 0:41:29 | 0:41:31 | |
if I say that I'm Suzi or if I'm Dr Bachelor. | 0:41:31 | 0:41:34 | |
I think with some patients, I think I feel as though I need to kind of show that, | 0:41:34 | 0:41:39 | |
you know, I know more than they do about what's going on. | 0:41:39 | 0:41:43 | |
As she finishes her time at Newcastle, | 0:41:43 | 0:41:46 | |
Suzi's moving on to a new job in South Shields. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:49 | |
I'm going to be doing adult medicine cos I think it's interesting. | 0:41:49 | 0:41:53 | |
I've got a couple of exams since filming | 0:41:53 | 0:41:57 | |
so I'm kind of part way there to doing that anyway now. | 0:41:57 | 0:42:00 | |
It's a job that I can't wait to get stuck into and things. | 0:42:00 | 0:42:05 | |
Excited! | 0:42:05 | 0:42:06 | |
It'll be good. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:08 | |
First year Katherine has another year in Newcastle. | 0:42:13 | 0:42:18 | |
The past 12 months have increased her confidence. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:21 | |
One of my patients came in | 0:42:21 | 0:42:22 | |
to basically have his little finger stitched up. | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
And when I took a history, he mentioned he was getting some pain. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:31 | |
Feel the pain since yesterday morning | 0:42:31 | 0:42:33 | |
but I think it's just through work. | 0:42:33 | 0:42:35 | |
I think it's just muscle pain. | 0:42:35 | 0:42:37 | |
It's quite a problem, having this pain now? | 0:42:37 | 0:42:40 | |
It's just heavy lifting. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:42 | |
-Did it come on suddenly or gradually? Do you remember? -Just gradually. | 0:42:42 | 0:42:46 | |
-Do you smoke at all? -Yeah. | 0:42:46 | 0:42:49 | |
-Do you drink at all? -Yeah. | 0:42:50 | 0:42:52 | |
How many units would you say a week? | 0:42:52 | 0:42:54 | |
I'm not sure. Um... Probably about 60 pints a week. | 0:42:54 | 0:42:59 | |
-60? -Yeah. I don't know what that is. | 0:42:59 | 0:43:02 | |
-Sorry, 16 or...? -60. -60. -Mm-hmm. | 0:43:02 | 0:43:05 | |
Katherine decided to investigate further. | 0:43:07 | 0:43:09 | |
I'm just going to tap down from this end now. | 0:43:11 | 0:43:14 | |
OK. I mean, I... | 0:43:19 | 0:43:20 | |
-From the history, I'm not worried at all about your heart. -Yeah. | 0:43:20 | 0:43:24 | |
-The pain's sort of more round there. -Mm-hm. | 0:43:24 | 0:43:28 | |
-Do you know if you've ever had any tests done on your liver before? -No, I haven't. -OK. | 0:43:28 | 0:43:32 | |
Just cos when I was...feeling, I thought maybe your liver | 0:43:32 | 0:43:35 | |
was slightly enlarged. | 0:43:35 | 0:43:37 | |
99% of your day | 0:43:37 | 0:43:38 | |
is just doing, you know, the jobs like taking bloods | 0:43:38 | 0:43:42 | |
and filling in forms. | 0:43:42 | 0:43:43 | |
'So, it does feel quite nice to be able to say, | 0:43:43 | 0:43:46 | |
'"I think I know what's wrong with you and it's this."' | 0:43:46 | 0:43:49 | |
I might just ask one of my senior colleagues what they think. | 0:43:49 | 0:43:52 | |
If you pop back to the day room... | 0:43:52 | 0:43:55 | |
-Just come with me. -Cheers. | 0:43:55 | 0:43:57 | |
I went to see this guy, I think that's his... | 0:43:57 | 0:44:00 | |
Don't know where his notes are. This guy, | 0:44:00 | 0:44:02 | |
and I think he's got an enlarged liver. | 0:44:02 | 0:44:04 | |
60 pints a week is 120 something units, good spot. | 0:44:04 | 0:44:08 | |
You don't want patients to be ill and you don't want them to be sick | 0:44:08 | 0:44:11 | |
but when you're the one that spots what's wrong with them, | 0:44:11 | 0:44:15 | |
it is quite satisfying. | 0:44:15 | 0:44:16 | |
As she faces the start of her second year, | 0:44:19 | 0:44:22 | |
Katherine knows where she wants to end up. | 0:44:22 | 0:44:25 | |
When I started my first year as a junior doctor, I wanted to do surgery. | 0:44:25 | 0:44:31 | |
In the past few months I've passed my first set of surgical exams, which I'm excited about, | 0:44:31 | 0:44:35 | |
so I'm on track to make applications in a few months' time. | 0:44:35 | 0:44:40 | |
While Katherine's confidence was starting to grow, | 0:44:42 | 0:44:46 | |
Adam finally got the chance to prove himself. | 0:44:46 | 0:44:49 | |
I felt my first chance to make my mark was during my first on-call. | 0:44:49 | 0:44:53 | |
That was hugely different to the day job. | 0:44:53 | 0:44:57 | |
He was covering up to 170 patients over five wards. | 0:44:57 | 0:45:00 | |
BEEPING | 0:45:02 | 0:45:04 | |
Hello. | 0:45:04 | 0:45:06 | |
He was called to see 85-year-old Lester, with a lung complaint. | 0:45:06 | 0:45:11 | |
Hello. | 0:45:11 | 0:45:13 | |
His condition had deteriorated. | 0:45:15 | 0:45:17 | |
Lester was already very, very poorly | 0:45:19 | 0:45:21 | |
but when I got called to see him, he looked ghastly. | 0:45:21 | 0:45:25 | |
Honestly, I thought he was on the verge of dying. | 0:45:25 | 0:45:29 | |
He's not well. He's not well at all. | 0:45:29 | 0:45:32 | |
Adam decided to investigate further | 0:45:32 | 0:45:35 | |
and ordered a new X-ray to compare with the first one. | 0:45:35 | 0:45:38 | |
I could be convinced the new one's worse, actually. | 0:45:38 | 0:45:41 | |
I think it's the heart that's the problem and it's backed up into the lungs. | 0:45:41 | 0:45:45 | |
Yeah, I think the new one's definitely worse. | 0:45:45 | 0:45:49 | |
Definitely. | 0:45:50 | 0:45:52 | |
Adam thought the patient should be on additional medication, | 0:45:52 | 0:45:56 | |
but needed to clear this with the senior doctor. | 0:45:56 | 0:45:59 | |
Do you think I can give him furosemide, | 0:45:59 | 0:46:01 | |
or is it not a decision I should be making? | 0:46:01 | 0:46:03 | |
-His renal function... -If you're comfortable and you know what you're doing. | 0:46:03 | 0:46:07 | |
Cool, sweet. OK... Can we start furosemide? | 0:46:07 | 0:46:13 | |
40... I'll hand it over and she'll come over. | 0:46:13 | 0:46:16 | |
-Thanks very much. -This was the first time as a doctor Adam had made a diagnosis. | 0:46:16 | 0:46:22 | |
Yeah, I'm going to give him furosemide. | 0:46:22 | 0:46:24 | |
I knew it was... I knew it. | 0:46:24 | 0:46:27 | |
Goddamn right. | 0:46:27 | 0:46:29 | |
-Furosemide. -Yes, I'm going to give him furosemide! | 0:46:29 | 0:46:32 | |
I'm sure everybody knows now. I'll get taken the piss out of for it. | 0:46:32 | 0:46:35 | |
Now, that is different from the day job. | 0:46:35 | 0:46:39 | |
That's why you're a doctor. | 0:46:39 | 0:46:41 | |
The next day I came back and he looked well. | 0:46:41 | 0:46:44 | |
-I'm so happy about that. -Seriously, good job. | 0:46:44 | 0:46:48 | |
'The staff were nice and he was nice. | 0:46:48 | 0:46:50 | |
'It was like one big Care Bear moment. It was just amazing.' | 0:46:50 | 0:46:54 | |
Hello. How are you feeling today? | 0:46:54 | 0:46:56 | |
I feel much better than what I did yesterday. | 0:46:56 | 0:46:59 | |
-OK, good. I'm glad to hear it. -I do, and so am I. | 0:46:59 | 0:47:04 | |
'I'll never forget that.' | 0:47:04 | 0:47:05 | |
It just doesn't happen like that in medicine very often. | 0:47:05 | 0:47:08 | |
Just doesn't. And it was just great, it was a great moment. | 0:47:08 | 0:47:12 | |
As he enters his second year, | 0:47:12 | 0:47:14 | |
Adam is learning that responsibility will come in time. | 0:47:14 | 0:47:18 | |
I see now that I need the transition to go through, but I'm about to start A&E myself in a month, | 0:47:18 | 0:47:24 | |
and I'm really looking forward to it | 0:47:24 | 0:47:26 | |
but still really apprehensive, even after a year's training. | 0:47:26 | 0:47:30 | |
I definitely, in hindsight, | 0:47:30 | 0:47:32 | |
wouldn't have gone onto it straight away, you know. | 0:47:32 | 0:47:34 | |
I think it's wise to have at least a year under your belt | 0:47:34 | 0:47:37 | |
before you go onto something like A&E. | 0:47:37 | 0:47:39 | |
Hello, it's Keir on call for plastics. | 0:47:45 | 0:47:48 | |
Wheee, you're flying! | 0:47:48 | 0:47:50 | |
Do you want to shake my hand? | 0:47:50 | 0:47:52 | |
Keir had a big decision to make about the direction | 0:47:52 | 0:47:55 | |
he wanted his career to take. | 0:47:55 | 0:47:57 | |
When you start off as a junior doctor, you think, right, I've made it, | 0:47:57 | 0:48:01 | |
this is the end, I've sat my exams, I am now a doctor. | 0:48:01 | 0:48:05 | |
And then suddenly, 14 months later, someone turns to you | 0:48:05 | 0:48:08 | |
and goes, "Do you want to be a chemical pathologist or a psychiatrist?" | 0:48:08 | 0:48:12 | |
I don't know what a chemical pathologist is! | 0:48:12 | 0:48:15 | |
Keir had to decide whether to become a medic and treat with medicine | 0:48:15 | 0:48:19 | |
or become a surgeon and wield the surgeon's knife. | 0:48:19 | 0:48:23 | |
-Hello. -You OK? -Yeah. -My main problem with this is the nail. | 0:48:23 | 0:48:27 | |
So, we need to remove the nail and then flap the skin over the top. | 0:48:27 | 0:48:33 | |
-Is it? -Yep. -I've never done this before. | 0:48:33 | 0:48:35 | |
I'm quite excited and a little trepidatious at the same time. | 0:48:35 | 0:48:39 | |
When he was in plastic surgery, Keir had the opportunity to assist | 0:48:43 | 0:48:47 | |
in operating theatres, which gave him real hands-on experience. | 0:48:47 | 0:48:51 | |
So, have a go. | 0:48:53 | 0:48:56 | |
-That's the bone. -Mm-hmm. | 0:48:56 | 0:48:57 | |
And we're just literally nibbling, like that. | 0:49:00 | 0:49:04 | |
-What I'm hoping to do is preserve a little bit of the joint. -Mm-hmm. | 0:49:04 | 0:49:09 | |
The operation was performed on a conscious patient | 0:49:09 | 0:49:14 | |
so he could go home on the same day. | 0:49:14 | 0:49:17 | |
The bone in his finger was shortened with a bone nibbler. | 0:49:17 | 0:49:21 | |
-Are we down to that, then? Oh, fantastic. -Wow, look at that! | 0:49:21 | 0:49:24 | |
AUSTRALIAN ACCENT: That's not a bone nibbler, THIS is a bone nibbler. | 0:49:24 | 0:49:28 | |
-Right. -You don't mind us talking, do you? -Oh, no. -That's all right. | 0:49:28 | 0:49:33 | |
At the end of the operation, Keir stitched up | 0:49:33 | 0:49:37 | |
-the tip of the patient's finger. -Lovely. Well done. Grand. | 0:49:37 | 0:49:41 | |
But it didn't really help Keir come to a decision. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:44 | |
People say that that decision's the easiest one. | 0:49:46 | 0:49:50 | |
I find it the hardest one. | 0:49:50 | 0:49:52 | |
Major choice. Surgeon or medic? | 0:49:52 | 0:49:54 | |
And you can't tell, can you? Cos you like both. | 0:49:56 | 0:49:58 | |
Boy did good. | 0:49:58 | 0:50:00 | |
Just what I expect. | 0:50:00 | 0:50:02 | |
He has natural ability. | 0:50:02 | 0:50:05 | |
It'd be a shame to lose him from surgery. | 0:50:05 | 0:50:07 | |
Obviously surgery is a lot more practical. | 0:50:07 | 0:50:10 | |
You are physically removing bits of people that have gone wrong. | 0:50:10 | 0:50:14 | |
So, I can see what I'm dealing with now. | 0:50:14 | 0:50:16 | |
'Looking at a healthy patient and saying, "I did that", is fulfilling.' | 0:50:16 | 0:50:20 | |
See you a bit later. | 0:50:20 | 0:50:22 | |
'Whereas in medicine, you're trying to identify lots of difficult patients' | 0:50:22 | 0:50:27 | |
with lots of different things wrong with them | 0:50:27 | 0:50:29 | |
so solving that puzzle is attractive. | 0:50:29 | 0:50:31 | |
Ultimately, you have to make your career decisions based on experience. | 0:50:33 | 0:50:38 | |
Right, hello. | 0:50:38 | 0:50:40 | |
-OK, let's have a look, then. -Let's take them off for you. -That's grand, thank you. | 0:50:40 | 0:50:45 | |
As part of his training, Keir also treated | 0:50:45 | 0:50:48 | |
some of Newcastle's youngest outpatients. | 0:50:48 | 0:50:52 | |
-Is it hurting all the time? It is. -When I move it, it really hurts. | 0:50:58 | 0:51:01 | |
It's hurting most when you move, OK. | 0:51:01 | 0:51:05 | |
That's cool. What we do need to do is clean it, OK? | 0:51:05 | 0:51:10 | |
Are you feeling a bit dizzy and queasy and rotten? | 0:51:10 | 0:51:13 | |
No? Excellent. | 0:51:13 | 0:51:15 | |
-I'm just really hungry. -You're really hungry! | 0:51:15 | 0:51:18 | |
One year on and Keir has made his decision. | 0:51:19 | 0:51:23 | |
But I've finally made my mind up. | 0:51:23 | 0:51:27 | |
I'm now going down to Great Ormond Street to do children's medicine, | 0:51:27 | 0:51:30 | |
which is kind of my...dream, as it were, | 0:51:30 | 0:51:34 | |
so I'm confident I've made the right decision. | 0:51:34 | 0:51:36 | |
Plus, I think if/when I have kids, | 0:51:36 | 0:51:40 | |
-I would love Keir to be my kids' doctor. -Aw! | 0:51:40 | 0:51:42 | |
Because, I mean, watching him on television and things with kids, | 0:51:42 | 0:51:47 | |
you put kids at ease so well, you're good at talking to patients | 0:51:47 | 0:51:52 | |
and I just think that you'll be great at it. | 0:51:52 | 0:51:54 | |
I'm just immature! | 0:51:54 | 0:51:55 | |
That's it. BLOWS RASPBERRY | 0:51:55 | 0:51:57 | |
-How old are you, Alicia? -Six. -Six. | 0:51:57 | 0:52:00 | |
Are you a bit frightened? Yeah. | 0:52:00 | 0:52:02 | |
There's no need to be frightened, OK? | 0:52:02 | 0:52:04 | |
She's gorgeous. | 0:52:04 | 0:52:07 | |
You're the cutest patient I have had all day. | 0:52:07 | 0:52:09 | |
He says that to all the girls! | 0:52:09 | 0:52:12 | |
-See you later, guys. -See ya. | 0:52:22 | 0:52:24 | |
Six months into the job, | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
the junior doctors had a whole new experience to face. | 0:52:26 | 0:52:30 | |
The programme hit the air and they started to be recognised. | 0:52:32 | 0:52:36 | |
-Is that why you've cut your hair, so that people don't know who you are any more? -No. | 0:52:36 | 0:52:41 | |
-That's what the theory is. -I've heard this theory. | 0:52:41 | 0:52:44 | |
"You know Lucy? She's cut her hair since the show. | 0:52:44 | 0:52:46 | |
"She's trying to go under the radar." | 0:52:46 | 0:52:48 | |
Not a day goes by when someone goes, "You've had your hair cut!" | 0:52:48 | 0:52:52 | |
The one that I get the most is, "Have you passed your exam yet?" | 0:52:52 | 0:52:55 | |
Or, "Do you still play rugby?" | 0:52:55 | 0:52:56 | |
I get, like, toilet brush a lot, especially at work. | 0:52:56 | 0:52:59 | |
"You're the girl with the toilet brush." | 0:52:59 | 0:53:01 | |
I was like, "Wait a second, I was not WITH the toilet brush!" | 0:53:01 | 0:53:04 | |
I happened to be there, dealing with the toilet brush but it was nothing to do with me. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:09 | |
Tonight is the last time the seven junior doctors will all be together | 0:53:11 | 0:53:17 | |
before they go their separate ways. | 0:53:17 | 0:53:20 | |
-We might not see each other again for a long time. -Mm. | 0:53:20 | 0:53:24 | |
You're going down to London. | 0:53:24 | 0:53:25 | |
You're going to Hong Kong! It'll be more difficult to visit you. | 0:53:25 | 0:53:28 | |
Out of everything that we've been through, | 0:53:32 | 0:53:34 | |
what do you reckon you'll be remembered for? | 0:53:34 | 0:53:36 | |
Me crying, definitely. | 0:53:36 | 0:53:38 | |
-No doubt. -It's a good thing to be remembered for, | 0:53:38 | 0:53:42 | |
for actually having emotions. | 0:53:42 | 0:53:44 | |
-Well, for me, it's the other way round. No emotions. -Yeah! | 0:53:44 | 0:53:49 | |
-Do you still want to save the world? -Well, I have good intentions. | 0:53:49 | 0:53:53 | |
What about you, Katherine? | 0:53:53 | 0:53:55 | |
I certainly felt, at some times, quite isolated and overwhelmed. | 0:53:55 | 0:54:00 | |
It's important to remember you're not the only person to have gone through that. | 0:54:00 | 0:54:04 | |
You have to remember as you go from being a first year to a second year, | 0:54:04 | 0:54:08 | |
having someone underneath you, | 0:54:08 | 0:54:10 | |
-they're feeling exactly how you used to feel. -Yes. | 0:54:10 | 0:54:13 | |
When we were all round the table at the start of the year, | 0:54:13 | 0:54:16 | |
I think some of us were worried | 0:54:16 | 0:54:19 | |
about potential disasters and we've managed to get through the year | 0:54:19 | 0:54:22 | |
without anything too bad going wrong. | 0:54:22 | 0:54:25 | |
So, cheers to not messing up too badly. | 0:54:25 | 0:54:27 | |
-Cheers. -To not being struck off. | 0:54:27 | 0:54:30 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:54:30 | 0:54:32 | |
It's finally hit us, you know. | 0:54:33 | 0:54:36 | |
We're actual doctors now. | 0:54:36 | 0:54:38 | |
'I'm really glad my first year's almost over. | 0:54:41 | 0:54:45 | |
'Don't get me wrong, I've really enjoyed the year, but I'm hoping the next few years' | 0:54:45 | 0:54:49 | |
are going to be less and less kind of, you know, painful. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:54 | |
'I think I've still got a long way to go' | 0:54:56 | 0:54:59 | |
and I think I still have a lot that I've got to learn. | 0:54:59 | 0:55:01 | |
But I feel ready to move on to the next stage. | 0:55:01 | 0:55:05 | |
To the left or right? | 0:55:05 | 0:55:07 | |
Which way? | 0:55:07 | 0:55:08 | |
There aren't many other jobs that you can go home from at the end of the day | 0:55:10 | 0:55:15 | |
and feel like you've really made a difference in someone's life. | 0:55:15 | 0:55:19 | |
'It's weird, because that first day | 0:55:19 | 0:55:22 | |
'and those first experiences almost feel alien to me now' | 0:55:22 | 0:55:25 | |
because being a doctor and working as I am just feels to be part of me. | 0:55:25 | 0:55:30 | |
The most important thing I learned in the last two years | 0:55:32 | 0:55:35 | |
is how to be professional. | 0:55:35 | 0:55:37 | |
But I think letting your guard down often, | 0:55:37 | 0:55:39 | |
from time to time, is important. | 0:55:39 | 0:55:41 | |
When I say letting the guard down, | 0:55:41 | 0:55:43 | |
I don't mean just go absolutely bonkers. | 0:55:43 | 0:55:47 | |
The best thing about being a doctor is actually seeing people | 0:55:50 | 0:55:54 | |
with problems, putting them right. | 0:55:54 | 0:55:57 | |
That is, by far, the most amazing thing | 0:55:57 | 0:56:00 | |
that I could ever imagine doing in my life. | 0:56:00 | 0:56:02 | |
Take a chill pill, count to ten. | 0:56:04 | 0:56:07 | |
Even for all the bad hours, you know, and the difficult patients, | 0:56:07 | 0:56:11 | |
I would not trade in this job for anything else, honestly. | 0:56:11 | 0:56:15 | |
MUSIC: "Lie Down In Darkness" by Moby | 0:56:15 | 0:56:19 | |
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# The sun | 0:56:47 | 0:56:48 | |
# Will be no more. # | 0:56:53 | 0:56:56 | |
Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd | 0:56:56 | 0:57:00 |