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00:01Nobody knows what's around the corner.
00:04Life can be taken away on the turn of a sixpence.
00:08But as long as there are people who are prepared to come out of their door every morning and try and help other people, you have got to feel hope.
00:17Hello, Queens.
00:19Oh, Jesus.
00:21Adult at the tropical.
00:23Being stabbed twice in the chest.
00:25Fourth on parachute, hard landing.
00:28Collapse on a football pitch.
00:29Charged to 360.
00:31Excellent.
00:35Excellent.
00:37Thank you very much. Please call again.
00:40Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham.
00:43Another day in paradise.
00:45One of the busiest A&E departments in Europe.
00:48Wow!
00:50That, I don't think, is survivable.
00:52Have we got a new one coming in?
00:53Three minutes.
00:54There is no room at the inn.
00:56Do you want anything to drink?
00:57A cup of tea?
00:58This place is awesome.
01:00A place where life...
01:02You're a happy band of people here.
01:05Love.
01:07Love your kids.
01:09And loss...
01:11Unfold every single day.
01:14Working in A&E, you see people in those worst moments of their life.
01:17My baby boy.
01:18I can't use my baby boy.
01:21But there are always stars in the black sky.
01:25Oh, my God.
01:26It makes you realize how important life is.
01:29And we should hang on to that with both hands.
01:32Have you?
01:34Filmed across one 24-hour period, these are the stories of a nation and its health service.
01:39Thank you for everything.
01:41Aww.
01:43Suddenly, a lot of the things that you thought mattered, doesn't matter.
01:47It's okay.
01:48But you're there for me and I'm there for you.
01:50That's a strong bond.
01:52I'm loving you, man.
01:54I'm loving you, too.
01:56Bless you.
02:05Which one was that?
02:09Hello, Risa.
02:12I remember taking my first red phone call and my hand would not stop shaking.
02:18Hello, Risa.
02:22Hello?
02:24There was always this anxiety around answering that red phone and I'd always avoided it.
02:29I'd walk the opposite way.
02:31Hello, Risa.
02:33Who keeps ringing this phone?
02:36I remember the deputy sister at that point saying, you need to answer it.
02:39It's your turn.
02:40You've got to answer it.
02:41And I answered it and the whole phone was shaking.
02:44Oh, no, you've ranked the red phone in Risa.
02:47Now I've been doing this nearly eight years, I don't get nervous, but I am still surprised at some of the things that come through on that red phone.
02:54Thanks. Bye.
02:55Hello, Risa.
02:56Hello.
02:57Is that her own car?
02:58Oh, okay.
02:59Does it look broken or is there any deformity?
03:01Is it bleeding?
03:02Is it bleeding?
03:03No.
03:04No, no, no, no.
03:05Oh, no, no.
03:06Hello, recess.
03:12Hello.
03:14Is that her own car?
03:16Oh, OK.
03:19Does it look broken or is there any deformity?
03:22Is it bleeding?
03:25Oh, OK.
03:26What ops do you have for a...
03:28No, that's 97.
03:29Yeah.
03:30Oh, bless her.
03:32Just buzz the doorbell when you get here.
03:35Bye.
03:36A 92-year-old woman is being rushed to Queen's Medical Centre
03:43after getting trapped under her car.
03:47This is a bit of an odd one.
03:4910.40, car has reversed over her right lower leg.
03:53She's 92 years old.
03:55It's bleeding.
03:56You can't see any fracture or deformity,
03:58but she's got tie marks up her leg.
04:00I suspect she'll probably have a bad crush injury.
04:04Mm-hmm.
04:04We'll have a look when they ring the bell.
04:06When I hear a crush injury is coming in,
04:12it's always quite concerning.
04:13It's quite a serious injury to get.
04:15We worry about how that limb has been affected.
04:19How can I tell you it'll be OK if her car's been over her?
04:21They think she's fell out of the car and it's gone over her leg.
04:24It's their own car as well.
04:25Is it your own car?
04:26It's their own car.
04:27They think she fell out of the car.
04:28Has the patient broken bones?
04:33Is the blood supply compromised?
04:34Is there deep wound contamination, which put it at risk of serious infection?
04:40They could have a degloving injury where the soft tissues around a bone structure get pulled off.
04:46It's kind of like if you're pulling a glove off your own hands.
04:49Oh, are they here?
04:50All things that could potentially cause this limb to be lost.
04:56Hello.
04:56This is the lady that's been run over.
04:57That's shocking.
04:58But it's worse on the underside.
05:00Let me just grab him.
05:03Oh, Joe.
05:03I'm just going to get someone to have a little look at it, OK?
05:08It's all right.
05:10So it's a lot worse on the other side.
05:14When we got there, the neighbour had got a Jack and a Jack car.
05:19After I told mother her, yeah.
05:20Are you in a lot of pain or are you OK in terms of pain?
05:23It is, baby.
05:24OK.
05:25Oh, God.
05:26I think, yeah.
05:27I think it's going to be a sort of tinge your loss.
05:30So, yeah, we can get around to her for ages.
05:32Yeah, we'll look after you.
05:33We'll get you to the right place.
05:36The injury could be life-changing.
05:40So it's really important to work as quick as we can
05:43to find out the extent of damage that's been done to that limb.
05:50Hello, good morning.
05:51My name is Sharon.
05:52I'm the emergency doctor's here.
05:54Yeah.
05:54What happened?
05:55I was reversing the car and it was tight squeeze.
05:59And I was finding I was hitting the fence.
06:02So I opened the car door to see where I was going.
06:09The door flung open and I found myself under the car.
06:15Oh, gosh.
06:16I'm just taking off the dressings just to have a bit more of a thought.
06:19It hurts.
06:19Oh, gosh.
06:19Oh, gosh.
06:19Oh, gosh.
06:19Oh, gosh.
06:20Okay.
06:20Oops.
06:21Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
06:22That hurts.
06:23That hurts.
06:24That hurts.
06:24Yeah.
06:25Now that's painful.
06:26Okay.
06:26It gets torn the skin pretty significantly.
06:32Oh.
06:33Oh, dear.
06:34In the elderly, the skin tissue is a lot more thin and what we call friable.
06:40So if you, like, rub tissue paper in your hands and it breaks apart, it's kind of like that.
06:45You've got quite a deep tear down to the muscle here.
06:49Have I?
06:49In the back of your quad.
06:50Yeah.
06:51So we'll need to take a few pictures.
06:53Okay.
06:54Yeah.
06:54Speak to my plastics team.
06:57Things like gravel, oil on the road, soil, broken glass, the rubber from the tire.
07:03All of those things potentially could be in there and cause serious infections.
07:07Wow, we've got some nasty abrasion here as well.
07:12Muscle and soft tissue around the bones themselves.
07:16There's not as much of a blood supply to heal.
07:19If the blood supply is compromised to the appropriate tissues, that becomes super time critical.
07:25If we don't act on that fast, parts of that leg will die off.
07:37Mary is having an urgent x-ray after she fell from her car and it ran over her leg.
08:02Doctors are concerned.
08:03She may have broken bones.
08:05What you're going to have to do is lift your leg and put a board underneath.
08:09Yeah.
08:10Ooh!
08:11Sorry.
08:18My earliest memory was when I was seven.
08:21I fractured my femur.
08:22I was in hospital.
08:23It was the first time I ever received an Easter egg.
08:29And I had a big Easter egg.
08:31We never had Easter eggs at home.
08:33We never had enough money.
08:35A mother and father had eight children.
08:42And it was a very hard time for my mother.
08:46Poor.
08:47My sister barely died when she was three with meningitis.
08:52She would have been older than me.
08:54The oldest son was Arthur.
08:59And he died when he was 18 with rheumatic fever.
09:01And I was just a few months old.
09:04The next son was Ivor and he was killed on a pushbike when he was 18.
09:13I don't really know the impact of the loss of her children.
09:19It must have been tough for her.
09:21But in spite of that, she was a strong woman.
09:24And she was a very loving, caring person.
09:28They were values and qualities which have stayed with me ever since.
09:40All right.
09:41All right.
09:42Is it all finished?
09:43It's finished now, aren't we?
09:44It's done, yeah.
09:45Now we'll see what the next stage is.
09:47In those days, it was a normal thing for girls to get married fairly soon and have children
09:59quite like my mother.
10:01There you go.
10:02But I just was not interested in boys or in men.
10:07I've just come to give you some medications.
10:10Yeah.
10:11I was very happy to be on my own.
10:13I didn't dream of finding a romance.
10:17That's it.
10:19I was going against the grain, but I wanted to be somebody and it wasn't a mother.
10:27OK, I'll let the doctor know you've had these.
10:30Right.
10:31I might start listening to some podcasts.
10:40You know, I'll do my washing up.
10:42There's also getting in the car.
10:44I like to just sit in silence when I'm driving.
10:46Nothing, yeah.
10:47There's never silence at home.
10:49They're the loudest two people I've ever met in my life.
10:52Who's this?
10:53My husband and my son.
10:54Michael, my husband, used to shout so much in the army that he's never just dropped it
10:58an octave.
10:59Working in resource is my calling.
11:04I absolutely love it.
11:06When you're a senior nurse, I always look round at the team and think, are they doing
11:11OK?
11:12Because not everyone's as resilient as you might think.
11:15Some of these nurses are newly qualified and they've never seen trauma.
11:18They've never seen death.
11:20A patient might trigger a memory for a member of staff and they're going to find it difficult.
11:24Are you all right or do you want to go out for a minute?
11:27Even myself, after all this time, there has been trauma or an emergency red phone come
11:32through that I thought, this is exactly my dad all over again.
11:36Doctor, I just saw you.
11:37I have to sit on.
11:38Does yours not feel quite so good anymore?
11:43Now that giant bear's an option.
11:44Ready?
11:45Ready?
11:46Right, Daddy's going to have another go.
11:47Ready?
11:48Good boy.
11:49You're just giggling, aren't you?
11:50Right, I don't think that's been successful.
11:51Right, I don't think that's been successful.
11:52No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
11:56High five off, never yet, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
11:58Is yours not feel quite so good anymore?
11:59Now that giant bear's an option.
12:04Ready?
12:06Ready?
12:07Ready?
12:08Right, Daddy's going to have another go.
12:09Ready?
12:10Good boy.
12:11Oh, boy.
12:15Just giggling, aren't you?
12:17Right, I don't think that's been successful.
12:19I can still see it up there.
12:21Four-year-old George has come to A&E with his dad, Stefan,
12:25after getting a stone mysteriously stuck up his nose.
12:29I like to play football,
12:32and the stone was stuck into the ball.
12:35When the ball hit my nose, it just went,
12:38you're out.
12:42You've been such a good boy.
12:44What colour star would you like?
12:46Two red ones.
12:47Two red ones?
12:48Yeah.
12:49Come on, then.
12:50Eddie, should I have one there?
12:52There you go.
12:53Good boy, you are.
12:54All right, Dad, so have a seat in the waiter
12:56and we'll get something to have a little look
12:58with a few other little instruments
12:59and see if we can fish it out.
13:00All right, thank you, sir.
13:01Don't worry, it's well done for trying.
13:03George means the absolute world to me.
13:08He's me best bud.
13:10Doctors, I'm cool!
13:12He is the light of my life, basically.
13:15Dad, I love you.
13:17I love you, mate.
13:19I met George's mother, Jess, on a dating app.
13:24I was 24, she was 20.
13:28I think at the start, I liked her more than she liked me.
13:35Do you fish face?
13:37Yeah.
13:38It was quite a whirlwind, romance would say.
13:41We'd got together.
13:43Six months later, she actually fell pregnant.
13:46She was still at university.
13:48George.
13:49It was a shock.
13:51My heart just went, oh, oh.
13:53My whole world blew to pieces.
13:55Now I'm going to have to look after a little person.
13:58It was really scary.
14:00Hi.
14:01All right, someone is excited, I see.
14:03Mm-hmm.
14:04I was in the army, so within a year, married,
14:08living on the barracks, with a kid on the way.
14:11Life turned upside down.
14:13So, usually, we get a good chance of getting them out,
14:18if I can see it properly, OK?
14:20Yes, OK.
14:21Usually, I use a small stick with, like, a hook at the back.
14:25Push it forward, OK?
14:26OK.
14:27But then for this to happen, he has to be really still.
14:29OK.
14:30With a four-year-old, it's unlikely.
14:32Yeah.
14:33If this doesn't work, then probably we'll have to list them
14:36for general and static.
14:37We don't want that to happen.
14:38We'll have to come back tomorrow.
14:40It's more waiting.
14:41Blah, blah, blah.
14:42All right.
14:43You want this light?
14:45All right, I'll keep it with you for the time being.
14:48Can I have it back some time later?
14:50Yeah.
14:52That's very generous of you.
14:55After George was born, we had to juggle quite a lot,
14:58but we managed it.
15:00Ah!
15:03Over the years, me and Jessica, we both kind of drifted apart.
15:08There wasn't an actual moment where we both just said to each other,
15:12I've had enough.
15:14We both agreed that we should go our separate ways.
15:18Dad, are you just staying with me for a minute?
15:21Of course I'm going to stay with you.
15:29Hello.
15:30Hello.
15:31Are you Norman?
15:32Hello, I'm Sam.
15:33Nice to meet you.
15:34Right, I've just got to keep you connected to some monitors,
15:36if that's okay?
15:37I guess I'll do it.
15:38Just to keep an eye on your heart rate.
15:39Yeah, sure.
15:40Fantastic.
15:4295-year-old Norman has been brought to A&E
15:45after becoming unwell at home and dialling 999.
15:49His heart rate is fluctuating and dropping dangerously low.
15:52My husband, Tim, and myself, we were on holiday in the Lake District.
15:58I went to the ladies and came back to have my lunch.
16:02And then Tim said, I've got something to tell you.
16:04I've just had a phone call.
16:06Your dad's in hospital.
16:07Right then, you just relax then.
16:09Yeah.
16:10So, of course, at this stage we didn't realise exactly what had happened.
16:15We were worried, we were concerned, obviously.
16:18Yeah, we'll keep you hooked up just so we can keep an eye on that heart rate
16:22because it keeps flickering, doesn't it?
16:25He was at home and kept getting, like, a shivery feeling.
16:29It's always like electric shops going through.
16:33Oh.
16:34It's been doing that for a few days now.
16:36Yeah.
16:37Well, thank you, Norman.
16:43Well, considering Dad's age, particularly his heart,
16:45he's already had one heart attack.
16:47And you think the worst, really, don't you?
16:50Hello there.
16:52My name's Anita. I'm one of the doctors.
16:54Yes.
16:55OK, so what brought you to us? What happened?
16:57I've been getting, like, electric shocks all the time.
17:00You've been shaking a little bit.
17:01And do you have any cramps in your calves at all?
17:05No, I do exercises morning and night.
17:08You know, raising my legs and things like that.
17:11And...
17:12And...
17:13And it's coming over me now.
17:15Something just went over my...
17:18Oh.
17:19It's very interesting because your heart started beating a bit differently.
17:22The rhythm changed.
17:24Maybe there is something.
17:25Ooh.
17:2660 to 80 beats per minute is within the normal range of a heart rate.
17:32So heart rate falling to 28 is a dangerously low heart rate.
17:38Can I listen to your chest?
17:40It can cause seriously low blood pressure.
17:43The patient could collapse.
17:45It can cause vital organs to shut down.
17:48Well done.
17:49Sure.
17:50It can potentially cause the heart to stop.
17:52Was that painful?
17:53That's fine.
17:54I'm sorry.
17:55All right.
17:56If the heart's not beating regularly for a long period of time, blood clots can form in the heart.
18:02And those can then shoot off from the heart up to the brain and cause strokes.
18:07I think you have some fluid.
18:08Yeah, absolutely.
18:09But that's sometimes what happens when your heart is not perfect.
18:15There are a couple of things happening.
18:18Your heart is not beating regularly.
18:20It sometimes can be just a consequence of your heart not working properly.
18:25Or it might be because of an infection.
18:27So we need to do a chest x-ray because I heard a bit of crackles on your chest.
18:32Okay?
18:33Just to make sure there's no infection.
18:34Yeah, exactly.
18:35But I think I'll also want the heart team, the cardiology team to see you here.
18:40Because you know when you have your episodes when you like shivered?
18:42Yeah.
18:43Your heart doesn't beat as it should.
18:44You skip a beat.
18:45So they definitely should see you.
18:47Okay?
18:48No, I'm not.
18:49Given your history.
18:50Okay?
18:51Is it all right?
18:52Any questions?
18:53I don't want to get you home.
18:54So I'll try to do everything to get you home safely if you can.
18:57That's all right.
19:05I know this place when I lost my wife here.
19:1618 months ago.
19:17Oh, did you?
19:18Sorry to hear that.
19:19Well, I have one of those things.
19:21Both knocking on the bed.
19:23It was 93.
19:24Oh, I'll wash it.
19:26Okay.
19:27Elijah is going to take you to X-ray, Norman.
19:29Okay, there you go.
19:30Norman's heart rate keeps dropping dangerously low.
19:33He is being sent for a chest X-ray so doctors can check for signs of infection.
19:39All right, my name's David.
19:40I'm a radiographer.
19:41Perfect.
19:42We're going to take a quick picture of your chest, okay?
19:44Yeah.
19:45Could you take your wonderful cardigan off?
19:46Yeah.
19:47Would you give you a hand?
19:48Yeah, you'd have to.
19:52I remember being very young and on Sunday we used to all go out for a Sunday afternoon
19:57ride in the car.
20:00And Daddy very often used to go all the way to Wales, which was probably a good two and
20:05a half hours.
20:06We'd have to get there and turn around and come back home again, but at least we'd all
20:10been out for a treat.
20:11Just push your shoulders back.
20:13What's it?
20:14Chin on.
20:15Mum was very pretty.
20:16Dad was very handsome.
20:18They got married as soon as they could when they were both 21.
20:21They were childhood sweethearts.
20:23I think they started courting just before, really, the war started.
20:27I like your socks.
20:29Yeah.
20:30They're good, aren't they?
20:32Dad is born in 1925, so he was only a teenager when war was declared.
20:39Nice to meet you, sir.
20:41All the best.
20:42All right.
20:43Take care.
20:44He was too young to actually go into services until 1943, when he was 18.
20:52At that time, he went into the RAF.
20:56As we were growing up, we never really knew much about what he did in the war.
21:02He didn't like talking about it.
21:05It must have been very difficult.
21:07It's only just recently we found out.
21:10It is heroic what he was doing.
21:12Hi, thank you.
21:16Hello, sir.
21:17I'm Nick.
21:18I'm one of the cardiology nurses.
21:19What's been going on, then?
21:20What brings you to us?
21:21Well, I was getting these kind of electric shocks all the time.
21:25Getting worse.
21:26Yeah.
21:27I can see it on the...
21:28It is, yeah.
21:29Your heart really slows down.
21:31Yeah.
21:32How long has it been doing that for?
21:33About three or four days.
21:34Has it?
21:35Okay.
21:36And have you felt dizzy or lost consciousness at all?
21:38No, nothing like that, no.
21:39Nothing like that.
21:40And have you had much in the way of chest pain at all?
21:43I know that you had...
21:44No, not really, no.
21:45No.
21:46Okay.
21:47So you had a heart attack in Christmas time, I think.
21:48Yeah, that's just about that.
21:49Yeah.
21:50November, December.
21:51Did you have chest pain then?
21:52Very similar to this in some respects.
21:56Okay.
21:57The one's coming on now.
21:59I can see what's going on.
22:01I think we'll get some drugs running to try and stop this happening.
22:05Because your heart keeps slowing down and that's why you feel funny.
22:07Yeah.
22:08So we'll get you round to the resource area where we can keep a much closer eye on you.
22:12Right.
22:13Okay.
22:14The past medical history of previously having a heart attack is a red flag.
22:32With a patient in resource, we would know very quickly if there were any sudden deteriorations
22:37with keeping such a close eye, if this patient were to suddenly have their heart stopped,
22:42we'd be able to act on it straight away.
22:44This x-ray, there's nothing obvious there.
23:06Any cracks, any breaks.
23:08So, okay.
23:09Mary has had an x-ray after she fell from her car and it ran over her leg.
23:15Dr Shiran now has the results.
23:18Hello again, Mary.
23:20Oh, hello.
23:21I've had a look at your x-rays.
23:23Yeah.
23:24You've got healthy looking bones.
23:26Yeah.
23:27Considering your age, a lot of people are a bit older, thin out their bones.
23:30Well, I was an athlete.
23:31Oh, were you?
23:32Yes.
23:33Oh, were you an athlete?
23:34Well, I was a hockey player, actually.
23:36Oh, really?
23:37Yeah.
23:38When did you stop?
23:39When I was at my peak.
23:46I was the first one of the family to go on to higher education.
23:51I became a qualified teacher of physical education in 1950.
23:59I enjoyed doing sport and I was an athlete, actually.
24:04Well, can I just put a temporary dressing on this leg?
24:07Yes.
24:09I don't suppose I ever dreamt about where my career was taking me.
24:14I just knew there was a limit to how long I could actually teach PE in schools and be good at it.
24:24This is why you need ten pairs of hands.
24:26You do, don't you?
24:27After many years in education, I managed to get early retirement.
24:38But I thought, what am I going to do now?
24:42I was a Christian and a church-going person and I felt I would like to spend more time in the church.
24:51But I would need to do one year full-time course in Bible studies.
25:00I actually went back to education in my fifties.
25:05I went to Cambridge.
25:07I never expected to go to Cambridge at all.
25:10I didn't want to go where the clever boys are.
25:15Going back as a full-time student, boarding, you know, going away from home,
25:20leaving my own house.
25:22That was really very hard.
25:24It was quite different from what I was used to.
25:28Thank God they were happy for me to take my little old scamp with me.
25:33And I had a bike, of course, I was in Cambridge, with a basket on the front.
25:37And, um, scamp used to ride in the basket.
25:43The only trouble was, I was up three flights of stairs.
25:47So it was a long time to come down and let him out.
25:51Well, I feel better.
25:54Now this is wrapped up.
25:56Yeah.
25:57As long as you feel better, that's the main thing.
25:58Yeah.
26:00All right, darling.
26:02When I left college and first came into the church, it was quite difficult.
26:11I wasn't accepted by some people.
26:15What colour is your jumper?
26:23Look.
26:24I can see it's grey.
26:25Yeah, with the light on it.
26:28Maybe.
26:29Yeah, look.
26:30Look at the grey.
26:31Oh, yeah.
26:32Specialist ear, nose and throat doctor Tariq is attempting to remove a stone
26:38which got stuck up George's nose during a game of football at school.
26:43George, I have even more lights.
26:45Look at this one.
26:46Wow.
26:47Look.
26:48This one is even fancier.
26:49Mm-hm.
26:50Show me which...
26:51Where did the...
26:52Where did the rock go?
26:53It's here.
26:54Come...
26:55Come sit here.
26:56Sit on the edge.
26:57Good lad.
26:58All right, you're going to look up.
27:03All right, look straight for me.
27:05Nice.
27:06Well done.
27:07George, are you going to let me take it out?
27:12Yeah.
27:14Ah, let's get into position.
27:16Is that all right?
27:17Yeah, yeah.
27:18Oh, sorry.
27:19I forget about the light and blind people.
27:21That's right.
27:22All right, you ready?
27:23Close your eyes.
27:28Is it ticklish, George?
27:32Georgie, what's wrong?
27:34It hurts.
27:35It hurts.
27:36I'm sorry.
27:37Just bear with me.
27:38It's going to be one minute and it'll be over, okay?
27:39Yeah.
27:40Good lad.
27:41All right.
27:42Don't be afraid now.
27:43Close your eyes for me.
27:44Close your eyes.
27:45It's going to get stuck in my nose.
27:49No, no, no, no.
27:50It hurts.
27:51I'm sorry.
27:52It hurts.
27:53I'm sorry.
27:54I'm sorry.
27:55We got to get it out, haven't we?
27:56I've got to get it out.
27:58George, you have your light still.
28:01Okay?
28:02Now close your eyes.
28:03It's going to be over in one minute, okay?
28:04Let's get it out.
28:05OK, now close your eyes.
28:07It's going to be over in one minute, OK?
28:09Let's get it out.
28:10It's my fancy light on the finger, OK?
28:15Don't be afraid.
28:20I'm not going to do it out.
28:21I'm not going to do it out.
28:22Would you be happy if I asked for some more help?
28:25That's fine, yeah.
28:27Yeah, I'll ask for someone to give a bit more support,
28:30if you're happy with it.
28:32Otherwise, you'll have to come back in general and static
28:35and all of that.
28:36I really don't want it.
28:37Fine.
28:38All right, I'll ask for some more help, OK?
28:39Cool, yeah.
28:40I'm going to get some help.
28:43You're doing oh so well.
28:48When me and Jessica split, I was seeing George
28:51roughly every two weeks.
28:56It was hard.
28:57Coming back to an empty house is very difficult
29:01because I was used to having George with me all the time.
29:05Dad, look.
29:06Oh, yeah.
29:09The person who I call my dad, my stepdad, John,
29:12has always been there for me.
29:16My actual father, I don't speak to him at all.
29:21When I was younger, I decided to try and find out who he was.
29:29My mum told me, so I went looking.
29:31He was shocked more than anything to see me.
29:35What's that? Go on.
29:36I had a slight conversation with him.
29:39He kept telling me how much I looked like my mum,
29:41but he just didn't want to know me.
29:46I think because he wasn't there for me as a kid,
29:51I'm not going to let that happen to George.
29:57Hello, recess.
30:12You OK?
30:13Did you say GCS of three?
30:16I know what it's like not to have a dad around.
30:18Growing up, my dad, he was really kind.
30:23He always looked after me and my brother.
30:26He'd worked around school hours
30:28so that he could take my brother and I to school and pick us up.
30:31He did everything for us.
30:33He was a really good dad.
30:35All right, I'll see you in a minute.
30:36Thanks, bye-bye.
30:38We lived in a little railway cottage
30:41and we had free room of pretty much all the fjords.
30:44We just had the best childhood.
30:47But there were days when my dad's drinking was a problem.
30:51Hiya, it's China Room Resource.
30:52Is there anyone there I can hand a patient over to?
30:56When I was 18, it spiralled out of control at that point.
31:00My dad had a seizure at the top of the stairs.
31:04He fell down the stairs and he got a brain injury.
31:08He was 42.
31:10He died two weeks later in hospital.
31:14When he was in hospital, there was nurses on there
31:17that were sat at the end of my dad's bed,
31:19making sure he was OK.
31:21And the fact that they really cared about someone
31:23that they didn't really know about,
31:24that's when I thought, I could do this.
31:26I could be a nurse and I could look after people.
31:29Hello, sir. Can I just check your name a moment?
31:39Norman.
31:40Norman.
31:41Have you been feeling a bit lightheaded, a bit out of sorts?
31:42Yeah.
31:43All righty.
31:44So we brought you around here because your heart's beating too slowly
31:46and that's what's causing you to feel unwell.
31:48Yeah.
31:49So we're going to start you on a medication through the drip
31:50to help get your heart rate back to a normal speed, OK?
31:52There's going to be a bit of flurry of activity around you
31:53whilst we get you sorted and feeling a bit better, OK?
31:54Yeah.
31:55So this lovely chap is going to take an ECG from you.
31:56Yeah.
31:57And we'll be back to see you in a bit.
31:58We're going to get that medication prescribed.
32:00I'm just going to get another heart-tracing off, OK?
32:01OK?
32:02I'm just going to get another heart-tracing off, OK?
32:03I'm just going to get another heart-tracing off, OK?
32:04Norman's chest X-ray shows no sign of infection, but he's being kept
32:29under close observation in Rhesus.
32:32I'm going to get this drug up and running.
32:35This is just a temporary measure,
32:36just to try and stop your heart rate dropping down so low.
32:41I'm going to keep you on that for a little bit.
32:43If you start feeling unwell again, give us a shout.
32:45It's OK, but we're only just here.
32:47All right.
32:55I volunteered for the RAF when I was 18.
32:59I was a flight engineer.
33:00I had to look after all the mechanics on the aircraft.
33:05After the war, we were given various jobs to do,
33:09and one of our jobs was picking up
33:12these orphaned Jewish children from Prague.
33:17This was just another operation, as far as we're concerned.
33:20Fairly local, because it only took us about three hours each way.
33:25So we got there, and there was 90 aircraft.
33:30All Stirling's, freezing weather,
33:33and I was chill to the bone.
33:37They gave us a block of black bread
33:40and horrible taste in liquor when you smoothing your throat,
33:45which was vodka.
33:47But as vodka as it went down, it warmed you up.
33:52I don't know about that one.
33:53It's yours.
33:55Can you straighten that arm for me?
33:56That's sick.
33:57These kids, they're from about six or seven years of age
34:02to about 12 or 13.
34:08Well, if we hadn't had rescued them,
34:10they would have just been shot.
34:12They would have died a very lonely death.
34:15So we thought we were doing well.
34:17I had a good feeling about it.
34:18There you go.
34:20Thank you, there.
34:22They were very shy.
34:23They didn't come up and shake their hand.
34:28When we got on board,
34:30I think they were very bewildered,
34:32because I'm trying to get into this monster of an aircraft,
34:37and they seem to have been waiting for a good hiding,
34:41because they thought that we'd be as bad as the Germans.
34:44And there were no seats at all.
34:49It was the wartime aircraft,
34:51and we just sat them on their packages of clothing
34:54and things like that.
34:55They just have to hold each other when we're taken off.
35:00And then we got airborne.
35:03It was my job to look after them.
35:05I went back and made sure they were all OK.
35:10And I gave these children a bar of chocolate each.
35:15They gobbled it down.
35:17Probably never had a chocolate bar in their life.
35:23When we had landed,
35:24they all insisted on kissing me
35:26and giving me little tokens,
35:29which were treasures to them.
35:30I felt very humbled, really.
35:35In the mess that evening,
35:38I was talking to one of the ambulance drivers
35:41who examined these kids.
35:43He said,
35:45Well, those children you brought back,
35:47who are malnutritioned and everything,
35:50don't think any of them will live.
35:52I was very disappointed, of course.
35:54They were nice little children.
35:56Could I ask for some assistance, I think?
36:08So I have him in a good position with the father,
36:10that he boogles his head.
36:12Just we need to keep him in place.
36:14Doctors are trying for a third and final time
36:16to remove a stone from George's nose.
36:19If unsuccessful,
36:21he will need to have a procedure to remove it
36:23under general anaesthetic.
36:25You are going to come and sit on my knee again.
36:29We are going to get ready.
36:31You're a good boy, George.
36:32You're very brave.
36:33You've got it.
36:35It's going to turn brown,
36:37and I'm going to turn brown.
36:39You won't turn brown.
36:40We're going to get it out.
36:41No, don't worry.
36:41You'll stay as you are.
36:43We're going to get it out.
36:44Okay.
36:45Look here.
36:46Look at my light.
36:47You are very brave.
36:48Close your eyes.
36:49Close your eyes.
36:49Close your eyes.
36:50Don't be worried.
36:53Close your eyes.
36:53Close your eyes.
36:54Close your eyes.
36:55No, don't worry.
36:56That's all right.
36:57We didn't do anything.
36:59All right.
37:00It's not going to work.
37:01No.
37:02It's all right.
37:03Never mind.
37:04All right.
37:05Let me have a quick word with one of the seniors
37:07and see whether we can do it actually tomorrow, okay?
37:09So would you like to work in the waiting area?
37:11Yeah, of course, yeah.
37:16I was in the army for about nine and a half years.
37:19I absolutely loved being in the army.
37:24My expectations were a job for life,
37:27but I'd weighed everything up in my mind about the army,
37:32being in the army and being a dad.
37:35If I stayed in the army,
37:36I'd be shipped off
37:37to all different parts of the world.
37:40Better sell something.
37:42All right.
37:43So it was George or the army,
37:46but George became number one,
37:50whereas before it was myself.
37:52So I decided to leave the army.
37:57I want George to grow up with that support of having a dad.
38:02George.
38:03I'd rather be close to George,
38:06like my stepdad has been there for me.
38:10Essentially, you come to D34 at 8 in the morning.
38:13Yeah.
38:13Thank you very much.
38:14Are you going to be doing it?
38:16Doctor.
38:18I love you, doctor.
38:20Oh, OK, cool.
38:21Yeah.
38:21Come in.
38:22Don't submit to your leg, Mary.
38:36What happened?
38:37The car will come over here.
38:39Whose car?
38:40Mine.
38:41Your car?
38:42Yeah.
38:42Oh, bloody hell.
38:44Even my legs are hurting now.
38:47Mary seriously injured her leg
38:49when she was run over by her own car.
38:53She's waiting for a specialist doctor
38:55to arrive from the plastics unit.
38:58She may need surgery to close up the wound.
39:03Hello.
39:03Hello.
39:04My name's Oliver.
39:05I'm one of the plastic surgery doctors.
39:06Oh, yeah.
39:07So you've got quite a nasty wound.
39:09I've seen pictures of it already.
39:10Yes.
39:11You've luckily not broken any bones underneath.
39:13I know, yes.
39:14Which is very good.
39:15Yeah.
39:15There's a lot of areas where it's just the superficial skin
39:18that looks like it's come off.
39:19Yes.
39:20On the back, it's gone a bit deeper.
39:23Yes.
39:23You can see through right down to the muscle at one point.
39:25And you're going to need this wound washed out in theatre.
39:29Yeah.
39:29OK?
39:30And close bits where we can close bits, OK?
39:34Sometimes you can't always put it back on.
39:36So you might still have big wounds.
39:40If there is an infection on board,
39:42wounds don't heal very well.
39:44So we need to get that wound thoroughly washed out
39:47and we need to get antibiotics on pretty fast
39:50to reduce the risk of deep-seated infections from setting in.
39:54Because you're not going to get your operation until tomorrow.
39:57Aren't I?
39:58Yeah.
39:58What I want to do is give it a bit of a clean now.
40:01Yeah.
40:01When I left Cambridge, I wanted to be a priest.
40:11But there was opposition.
40:14Over the years, I've been in some very acrimonious debates
40:19about the ordination of women.
40:22I've reacted quite strongly
40:26to some of the attitudes of some of the male, particularly.
40:35When I first came into the church,
40:39there were certain men who wouldn't receive communion from me.
40:43I felt sad for them, really.
40:45They hadn't got more sense.
40:46You know, that they were so narrow.
40:51They weren't used to women having any say or power.
40:57You doing OK?
40:59OK.
40:59Yeah.
41:01Over time, there was more melting of some people's hearts
41:06towards women being ordained.
41:09So this will keep it nice and moist?
41:11Seven years later, when I heard the news
41:14that women could become priests,
41:17I thought, thank God, at last, it actually happened.
41:22It wasn't easy.
41:24But I don't take straight roads.
41:28Great.
41:29Right.
41:30I was in that first batch to be ordained in 1994.
41:36It was quite a moment.
41:38It made me feel great that I was fulfilled
41:41and I was doing my job.
41:44Hello, Sharon.
41:45It looks good for leaving you then.
41:47Yeah.
41:49I don't know if I will be united
41:51in the afterlife with my family one day.
41:55I'm much more interested in the present life.
41:59That's a big thing about your faith.
42:02You don't have to know all the answers.
42:04And it's a big thing to acknowledge
42:06that you don't know the answers.
42:08You're a private ambulance service.
42:11VIP for you.
42:12Oh, yeah.
42:13LAUGHTER
42:14I'm calling from Queen's Med, ED.
42:26I just need transfer for a patient
42:28in Reesos to City Hospital.
42:31He is going to Acute Cardiac Unit.
42:35Lovely.
42:36Thank you so much.
42:37Thanks.
42:38Bye-bye.
42:38Norman is being given drugs
42:44to help restore his heart rate
42:45to a normal pattern
42:46before transferring him
42:48to City Hospital.
42:49How are you feeling?
42:51I haven't had a twin since
42:52I just had that time.
42:54Right, OK, good.
42:55So that's doing the trick then, isn't it?
42:56Yeah.
42:57Good.
42:57This drug is a holding measure.
42:59Yeah.
43:00And then we'll decide
43:01whether you're something like a pacemaker
43:02or something that you need.
43:03I'll come with you in the ambulance.
43:05Yeah.
43:05You need to keep an eye on this drip
43:06and we'll get you over there.
43:08All right?
43:08Thank you very much.
43:09A few years ago
43:12I was invited to go to London
43:15by Judge Rinder
43:17whose grandfather
43:19was one of these children
43:21we brought back from Prague.
43:24I was invited there
43:26because I was the only known survivor
43:28of the squadron
43:30and I had to go and shake hands
43:33with all these survivors
43:34we brought back.
43:36I'm going to pull your mask down.
43:38And then we're going to go
43:39under your tongue.
43:43That's it.
43:45Never expect to see them again
43:47and there was half a dozen of them
43:50all standing there
43:52giving me a kiss
43:54coming and shaking my hand
43:56you know, things like that
43:57which I thought was absolutely fantastic
44:00and so warm
44:02to remember all those years ago
44:04so I gave them each
44:06a bar of chocolate
44:08just for the fun of it
44:09and they laughed their heads off.
44:14We appreciate that it did change people's lives
44:16but I don't consider myself and her at all
44:19it's just part of my job.
44:22Thank you very much
44:23we'll become
44:25see you next week
44:25see you next week
44:26see you next week
44:32bye
44:33see you next week
44:34really nice
44:35I don't want to keep this little guy.
45:02I wanted it to be my pet rock.
45:30The secret to life is living it, and be interested and curious.
45:37I hope I live to be 100, but I want to live it, not just exist.
45:45Eat and thrill, and be thankful.
45:52That's a big smash in an engine.
46:07When you look back, it is quite heroic, really, some of the things he's done.
46:12But he didn't think of it as that.
46:14We are proud of him, but his dad to us, really.
46:18It doesn't make him any different in our eyes.
46:21It doesn't make him any different in our eyes.
46:23And I want to show you how to do that.
46:27That is a great story.
46:29That's a great story.
46:30And this is the story of the story of the world.
46:32It's a great story of how to do it.
46:34You are a great story of how to do it.
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