Emergency. New series on Channel 4 between 28 February and 3 March 2100-2200, one episode per evening.

[Skulls]

Hi All,

I wanted to alert you to a new fly-on-the-wall documentary series made by the makers of 24 Hours in A & E.

My wife sighs audibly when I tune into the various ambulance and hospital documentaries as she doesn’t share my fascination. She was awake throughout my crisis whilst I stayed unconscious for seventeen days and have little memory at all of what happened. So, these windows into the emergency departments help fill some gaps for me and the alarms coming from the various devices attached to patients are eerily familiar.

The last two episodes were made at William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, whose Resus staff got my heart pumping again. They are all heroes in my eyes!

I hope you find it interesting as I certainly shall.

[Kirk5w7]

Hi Skulls,Thanks for the “heads up” on this.

I, too, am fascinated by these programmes. My favourites being the Critical Care ones.

I spent 3 weeks in a coma in 2012 and still search for those missing days. My sister, bless her, made me a diary of all the time when I was in hospital, up to the time I left and could write it for myself, but there are still missing bits.

I also have that eerie but comforting feeling when I hear the machine beeps.

My husband is finally able to watch them with me, he will now even bring any I have missed to my attention and we can now watch together.

The medical profession have my undying respect for the work they do, without their interventions I would not be here.

Janet x

[cat3]

Yes Skulls, I'm a fellow addict to televised surgery. At my first review with my neurosurgeon he described, in such personal terms, the pleasure he got from repairing folk's brains and seeing them functioning again. It encouraged me to learn more about my life saving procedure and within a week I was Googling it.

I watched the whole thing on YouTube and didn't once feel squeamish ; only fascinated (and a bit emotional at the expertise). I've watched other procedures including craniotomy & titanium cranioplasty and been completely transfixed by the amazing skillfulness of the surgeons ....family don't share my fascination though...🤢

So I guess this is a channel 4 documentary if it's from the 24hours in A&E team ? I'll look out for it for sure ! Thanks for the alert... Cat x

[Skulls in reply to cat3]

Yes, as the title says: “Emergency. New series on Channel 4 between 28 February and 3 March 2100-2200, one episode per evening.”

[cat3 in reply to Skulls]

Ha ha ..........saw everything in your post apart from the channel 4 ! (do need my eyes tested in my defence 🙄). x

[Kirk5w7]

Seen two episodes so far, riveting.