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The person you are trying to reach is unavailable. Please leave your message

after the beep.

Pick up the phone, Jess.

Hey, Mum.

Hi, love. So, don't kill me, okay?

What? Can you lend me 20 quid?

Me and Mia want to go out.

Jess. I won't go crazy.

Promise.

I told you, last time I got spiked. You weren't spiked, Jazz.

You drank too much.

Mia's got work in the morning. We won't be that late. No, Jazz, you're not going

out with me. Why not?

Especially not with Mia. You know what happened last time.

So what? I just sit in the house on my own. Jazz, I'm not going to attend to

you again.

Not when I'm working. You don't trust me.

You never trust me. All right, listen, I've got to go, OK? Love you.

All right.

Are you all right?

Can you hear me?

Can you give us a hand, please?

All right, we're just going to pop you down.

Can you call triage?

Grab a first aid kit, gauze, anything clean.

Yeah. All right, my dear.

Can I have a little look?

Let's have a look.

All right.

Put your hand... I know. Put your hand back.

Just apply some pressure.

Got a deep laceration to the forehead.

Just move your hand out of the way. Just lift it up a bit.

A little bit of pressure.

There we go.

You all right?

Yeah, I haven't even talked to him yet.

Okay?

Do you feel sick?

Two nurses and a HGA down.

You have got a lot of flu season.

The place looks like a bloody building site, too.

Maybe we day-tick that.

Unsafe staffing ratios. We probably should day-tick that. We could get more

response sending smoke signals in the car park.

Or maybe writing low staffing figures in blood on the morgue door.

Student, right?

Yeah. I'm... Sorry. I'm Marcus.

Ria. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

You'll be shadowing me here tonight.

I'll leave you in our capable hands.

Amazing.

What's first, Ria?

I have a job for you. I'll meet you in the staff room, baby.

I'll be here. Sorry, sure. Thank you.

Easing you back in gently, then.

I still can't believe you abandoned me.

Two weeks.

Toast. Well, it felt like a year.

Six times I'd made you and Guanabara Labour going through her bins.

Like, shoot me in the face, Jimmy. Can you sign that, please?

Thanks. You're all right, right? It's been bedlam. Thank you.

No, I'm serious. Leave me again. I'm putting in for maternity.

At least the screaming's more structured there.

Okay.

Sue.

Sorry, mate.

Right, okay.

Let's start so that I can get out of here.

Okay, so we've got Bay 3, Bed 13, Lamar Roberts, 33, endocarditis, oral

analgesia, still sore, tacky, on and off, fenpen due at eight.

Bed 14, Geoffrey French, 48, decomp heart failure, strict fluid balance, IV

furosemide, daily weights, wall-based care only, DNR. Bed 17, Isaac Green, 75,

pneumonia, plus Parkinson's, so co-carol doper and doxy time critical.

Allergic dependency, then? Yep.

And Doyle's back, bless her. Side room one, exacerbation of COPD, do not reset,

obviously. Side room two, awaiting cleaning for next admission.

Just give you that, thank you.

And then, bay four, bed 23.

Oh, Mr. Fred Miles.

Below the knee amputee on the left side after a road traffic collision.

You came in this morning in self-neglect, infected stomach.

Diabetic, on fluoxetine.

Is everything all right?

You okay for me to carry on?

Yeah. Yeah?

Okay, so bed 24.

We've got Hannah Jessop.

She came in last Friday.

Should be discharged this evening. Please leave your message after the

beep. Hi, Jess. It's Mom.

Why don't you order yourself a pizza or something?

There's some money in the kitchen.

You know I love you.

Bye.

Cosines? Mm-hmm.

You definitely did not have enough, Kavu. Take that. Cheers.

Hi, Lamar.

I'm Ria. I'm going to be looking after you tonight.

I'm going to start by giving you some antibiotics, okay?

Can you tell me your full name and date of birth, please?

Lamar Roberts, 9th of the 11th, 1992.

Any allergies?

No. OK.

Tell me, what are you feeling?

It feels...heavy.

Mm-hm. Dull.

It's like someone is literally sitting on me.

OK.

It's not getting better, it's getting worse.

This should help.

Let's take a good look at you.

See what's going on.

Yeah?

Okay.

Just pop your finger in there for me.

This pain is killing me.

Got anything stronger?

Yeah, um, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go and speak to the doctor

and see what he can do, okay?

You just take it easy, and if you need me, you just press that, yeah?

Yeah. Thank you.

The person you are trying to reach is unavailable. Please leave your message

after the beep.

Hi, Jazz. It's Mom.

Stop sulking now. Come on.

Can you just send me a message when you get this, yeah? All right. Love you.

Bye.

Hi. Yeah, it's Ria on AMU.

Bay to Mr.

Lamar Roberts, endocarditis.

He's in a fair bit of pain. BP. Yeah.

Sorry, BP 100 over 60.

He's on oxycodone and paracetamol. He wants something for his breakthrough

pain.

Yeah.

Yeah, if you could just check his notes and add a prescription.

Okay, great.

All right, thank you.

Nurse! Evening, Mr. Miles. Jesus Christ, do you ever answer this buzzer?

If you wait for rigor mortis to set in.

I'm Ria.

I'm going to be looking after you tonight. Where's the other one, the

Welshman? You promised me a cup of tea ages ago.

Yeah, well, I... I want to go out for a cigarette as well. Okay, look, I will

make you a tea, but... Kettle on strike, is it?

I'm afraid that we're on short staff today, so...

It's meds and obs first, and then tea.

Yes? There we go.

Short-staffed.

Such translators don't expect too much.

So, where are you from, Fred?

Somewhere better staffed, Ria.

Lucky you, eh?

Somewhere more important.

You know I've been down in A&E for eight and a half hours already today, don't

you? I'm sorry about that.

There we go.

All right.

I'll check back on you soon, OK?

And get us that cup of tea.

Four sugars.

I'll add it to the list, yeah?

You have one new message. Today at

8.35pm.

Mrs Doyle?

What are you doing out of your room?

I've been sick. It's gone everywhere.

Right. It's all right. It's okay. We'll get you cleaned up, okay? Let's get you

back and get you sorted, all right? I really am so sorry.

It's all right, darling. It's all right. Come on. Let me take you back to your

room, all right? Just go slowly.

There we go. Nice and slow, all right? Uh-huh.

Yeah. There we are.

All right. Run the marathon.

Yeah.

Lovely.

He's a cammy lad.

You've been walking around checking out all the stuff.

Oh, yes.

There we go, nice and slow, okay?

Lovely.

Oh, dear me.

Nice and easy, okay?

Can't go any fast.

Lovely.

You're still trying to get an invite for the Christmas party, are you?

Oh, yes.

That would be nice.

Lovely. Are you ready, okay, to sit down? Yes.

All right, you ready?

Uh-huh. One, two, there we go. Here?

All right?

Uh-huh. Let me get some rest. All right.

Well,

I haven't had this much action in years.

Okay, you ready? Yes.

One, two, arms up. Yes.

Off we go.

There we go. Oh, thank you.

All right?

Yes.

Okay.

Don't forget to ring this, okay? It's not good for you to be off your oxygen.

Shall we do your arms so you can get some rest?

Yes.

Are you all right, love?

It's time for the tablets you take at home.

Can you tell me your name, date of birth, please?

Isaac Green.

22nd of May, 1950.

Any allergies?

Penicillin. Lovely.

There you go.

You okay?

Thank you.

Good?

You people.

You never sleep, do you? No, sleep is for the wicked, isn't it?

All right, I'll be back in a sec, yeah?

Excuse me.

Yeah. Can I please have my pain meds? Yeah, I'm still waiting for the doctor

to sign off on them. I'm going to chase that now, OK?

Right.

Yeah, we're still waiting for the go-ahead on the arm off.

Right.

Okay, have you got an ETA on that?

All right, thanks.

Still got two on my side waiting.

But I'm still glad she gets it in the neck.

Jeez. So, how's Shad's getting on?

Well, she's grumpy at home.

Apparently, I'm ruining her social life.

I'm sure she'll get over it.

I am you, Elizabeth.

Yeah, it's for you.

Hello?

Yeah.

Sorry, yeah, can you repeat that, please?

Okay.

Sorry, sorry.

We have got one bed, but we're very short staffed. Maybe 20 minutes.

Yeah. OK, fine. Thank you.

I'll get you another one, I'm sure. I'm sorry about that. You better be caring

for people, not giving them third-degree burns, you know what I mean? All right,

all right, Fred, that's enough. Fucking look what he's done.

Okay, all right. It was an accident.

All right, doesn't matter. Marcus, do me a favour. Will you go get the IV for bed

17? It's in the treatment room ready. Just keep it by his bay, okay? I'm sorry

about that. It's okay.

Run while you still can, mate.

That's amputee humour.

It's funny.

Right, let's change this bed, shall we?

Okay, there we go.

Go on, have a good look.

Don't pretend it don't make you feel queasy.

It's disgusting.

You're supposed to be cleaning it, Fred. It's infected.

I'll have someone come and sort it for you.

What's the point?

My life is fucked.

Let me just do this. You know the bloke who hit me? He walked away without a

scratch.

How's that fair?

Five days they pissed about in this hospital before they chopped it off.

Five fucking days.

I was prepped for surgery. Nothing to eat, nothing to drink.

Then an emergency come in.

Sorry, mate.

Cancelled.

I was meant to be fitted with a prosthetic four months ago.

Still waiting.

I paid my national insurance all my life.

For what?

Tell me. Fred, uh...

When did you last eat?

What?

Well, what did you have for dinner?

It was grey.

And I don't eat grey slop.

Fred, you look peaky. I think your blood sugars might be low.

Why do you think I was kicking off about having a cup of tea?

Right. Hang on a minute.

Right, finger.

You know the best bit?

They sent me home when I live in a tower block.

Tenth floor.

Lift's always broken.

I've gone from running building sites to being trapped in my flat like a useless

fucking... You are quite low.

Right, I'm gonna go and get you some juice, okay?

Just sit tight.

My wife used to say that.

Sit tight.

She buggered off and all.

All right? There you go.

I'm allergic.

Allergic to what?

The flavour.

I'm going to leave those there and I'm going to check on you in 15 minutes,

okay?

Right.

I'll have another cup of tea as well.

Yep.

Next new message received at 10.17pm.

Hey, Mum!

Just to let you know, I'm all good.

Me and me are and...

to let you know i'm coming home not even drunk and yeah next new message received

at 11 43 p.m hey mom so we're going one more and then we're gonna i'm getting a

cab home with me no new messages

sorry

the person you are trying to reach is unavailable please leave your message

after the Jaz, where are you?

Just phone me right now.

Where do you want us to put her?

Side room two, please.

I'm sorry about the delay.

Can you give me your name, please, date of birth, any allergies?

Yeah, um, Lamar Roberts, 9th of November, 1992.

No allergies.

Okay.

I've got five milliliters of Oromor. Are you okay to take it yourself?

Yeah, I should be fine. There you go.

Just put it in your mouth and then just push.

Thank you. Lovely.

She'll kick in in about 15 minutes, all right? I'll come and check.

You're all right, love.

I'm just checking on you. How are you doing?

Mrs Doyle?

Our Ellie came in today.

Did she?

How lovely.

Wearing a nurse's costume, she was.

No.

Could never work these things.

There you are.

Oh, she looks better in the get-up than I do, eh?

She brought Chloe Bunny in to look after...

It's me, sweet.

It's lovely.

I'm just going to sit you up a bit, okay, love?

There we go, just a bit.

Sorry. It's okay, sweetheart. I'm sorry. Just increase your oxygen a little bit.

Okay, I'm going to check on you in a bit. Let Chloe keep you company, all

right?

Hiya. Yeah, it's AMU again.

Mrs. Doyle, COPD admission.

Nothing dramatic, but her sats have dipped a bit.

Yeah, she's sitting on 86 on two litres.

A bit more drowsy than earlier.

Yeah.

You OK? Are you afraid?

Yeah, yeah. Well, the new score's only four. I know, I've propped her up to

three litres. Can someone just take a quick look at her?

OK.

Leave the water.

Bed 14 needs a change.

But no one's earned up to the teeth. What? The dentures. Samuel found them in

here. He told me to sort it, but no one's claiming them. Well, get creative.

Smile check.

This first, yeah?

Okay. Oh, and can you get that buzzer, please?

No, I understand.

I'll call you if there's any changes.

Yeah. Thanks, Doctor.

It's giving that I have 150 to 200 patients in my care speech.

Izzy, 21.

Alcohol poisoning.

Needs closely monitored GCS, half-hourly obs, risk of aspiration.

Sounds fun.

Yeah. You should see A&E. It's packed with kids just off their heads.

They're going to burn out before they even start living.

Hi, Izzy.

I'm Ria. I'm going to be looking after you for tonight.

I need you to wake up, Piper.

Okay?

Can you hear me?

Piper?

Wake up.

Wake up, Piper. What?

Let me fucking sleep.

I left you out here by bed 17.

It's ready when you need it, Ria.

You scared me. Sorry. Ria, about Fred, the more I think about it, the more it's

like... You shouldn't talk to people like that. It's his problem. He's like

that with everyone.

Yeah, but I mean, I just stood there, you know? I should have said something

to him. You're going to meet plenty like him, OK?

Angry, scared.

For us, it's just a normal day, but for him, people like that, it's just the

worst day of their life. What do I do next time?

Why don't you stand there and let him test? Because he's just lost his leg,

okay? You want my advice? Take it on the chin. Keep moving.

But if anyone else said that sort of thing outside the hospital, I would say

something. I'd do something about it. I'm sorry, love. I'm going to have to

wake you up to give you antibiotics, okay?

Yeah, can you tell me your name?

Date of birth, please?

Isaac Green.

22nd of May, 1950.

I mean, you'd report it, right? There'd be paperwork.

Just because someone's had a bad hand, though, it doesn't mean that these

people have what they want.

Penicillin. Lovely.

Yeah, he knows that we can't say anything. You know that, right?

Yeah. In training, we're talking to be fair, but firm.

Marcus. The whole time I'm running through policy in my head, none of it

tells you what you're meant to do when someone's acting like that.

All those posters of don't abuse staff. But if he spoke to me like that outside,

and he knows we can't say anything back,

right? Because if you said something back, there'd be consequences.

HR. I can't believe it. Marcus,

can you just go and check that everybody is settled in, please?

Yeah, I will. Sorry.

You can talk, can't you?

Yes.

This is my daughter.

Do you mind if I just step outside for a quick second? No, of course not.

Jazz? Where the hell... Jazz?

Hello?

Leah?

Can you get Jazz on the phone, please?

I can't hear you.

Can you get Jazz on the phone? Oh, she's not with me. She went with this guy.

Right. Can you tell her to check her phone and call me straight back, please?

I think she's all right.

Sorry about that. Let's start your meds, shall we?

Are you alright, Piers?

Yeah.

I'll just be a second, okay?

Ria, sorry.

Sorry, Ria. I wouldn't, but it's bed 13. Something's wrong.

Yeah, I'm just coming.

Yes, I'm sorry. He said it's chest fault, Ty.

OK. I checked his stats. They were low, but I thought it was the oxygen. I

wanted to check with you. All right, I'll take a look at it.

I can't find the lift. Where's the lift?

Step back on your bed, please.

You still owe me that cup of tea. All right, Mama, tell me what's going on.

It's time. I can't breathe. All right, can we lift the bed up, please? All

right, just relax. I'm going to check you, okay?

All right, it's about a week past. Find the doctor who's gone now. Okay. Now,

Marcus.

All right, I want you to just take some slow breaths, okay, Lamar? Just take

some slow... Lamar?

All right.

Call 2222.

I need a crash team now. Get back quick. Okay.

Mr. Colonel.

Mr. Miles, please get back to your bed. Yes, hello. We need a crash team for Bay

3, bed 13. Someone's having a cardiac arrest.

Is she having a heart attack?

Mrs. Mask, please get back to your knees. We need to mask the back of our

mask. I've not done this before.

Connect it to the oxygen.

Yes. OK.

Now, tilt this forehead back. Put a hand on the head, two fingers under the chin.

All right? You got the mask on? Yes. OK. 29, 30. Two breaths.

One, two.

Right. You've got this. Just stay with me, OK? Nice and slow.

Continue compressions.

There you go. Without obstetrician for four minutes.

Follow the fucking crash team.

Just keep going, okay?

Come on, Piper.

Come on, Piper!

Sir, can you get out of the way? Thank you. Sir, can you get back?

Right, what have we got?

Sudden collapse.

Endocarditis. Two minutes. No output.

Right, continue CPR. Pads on, please.

VF

charged

to 150.

Charging. Oxygen away.

Everyone clear.

Shopping now.

Resume compressions. Go.

Shocking again?

Charging.

Shocking again?

Charging. Oxygen away.

Everyone clear.

Shocking now.

We have a pulse.

ICU is taking over.

You need to move, Fred.

You're blocking the corridor.

I can do it. Not completely. I said I can do it.

Fine. Lead the way.

I need you to transfer across. I'm fine here.

Look, if you need help... I don't need your help.

Well, it would help me if you would get... Just go away and leave me alone.

Look, it's the meds you're on, OK? You won't always feel that... I don't need

your pity.

Let me help you get changed, OK?

How you doing?

Still want that cup of tea, yeah?

I won't be long.

I want to see your fucking dress.

The person you are trying to call is unavailable.

Sorry, darling.

It's been a busy shift today.

All right, my dear. I'm going to have to do your rubs now. You're going to have

to wake up, love.

You eaten yet?

I can let the family know.

It's tough.

No recess.

Instinct says act.

Paperwork says don't.

Please leave your message after the beep.

Oh, Jazz, please. I'm getting really worried here. I don't even know where

you are. Are you still with that guy?

Do you even know him?

Please, I'm not mad. I'm sorry. I just need to hear your voice and that you're

okay. Please, Jazz, just call.

Jazz, if you don't make me in the next five minutes, I'm calling the police.

You're not supposed to be in you. This is for authorized staff only. I don't

care if it's for authorized staff only. I'll make myself a cup of tea, okay?

All right. One thing I'll ask you for. One thing. Keep it down, please. The

patient's asleep.

30 seconds.

That's all it takes. 30 seconds to make a cup of tea. But that's way too much

time to spend on me.

The thing is, no one gives a shit how I feel. I don't give a shit. Oi!

Get your hands off me!

Okay.

If you wait two minutes, I promise you I will make you a cup of tea. Is that what

you said to the old dear?

Wait two minutes.

Go on.

What's the script?

She died peacefully.

We did everything we could.

When in reality, she died alone.

Because you were too fucking busy to notice.

Joey! Oi!

What the fucking... My bed's in there.

My ward is there.

Slow down.

Please.

Please, slow the fuck down!

You know, I did notice. I noticed everything.

But, you know, there's not enough staff, not enough beds. People just grabbing at

you everywhere.

It's just 12 hours non-stop.

You know, and I'm trying, okay?

I did my best.

Her mother was hugging me, saying, thank you, thank you for saving my baby.

I mean, she was breathing, but there were tubes everywhere, and her eyes were

just gone.

Maybe I should have just pulled.

Maybe I... She was 18 years old.

Michelle, let's make this about your fucking tea.

You're not gonna leave me that, are you?

Thank you.

Reception-keeping emergency stash.

I remember that.

You know what your problem is? You still care.

Makes you sloppy.

Does it?

You're not exactly the model of efficiency, are you?

Yeah, but I don't pretend it's noble.

You know, I hate this, but we'll call it the quiet hour.

Between four and five, it's when most people slip away.

Do you ever wonder what the point of it all is?

Yeah.

All the time.

And then somebody needs their ops.

You know, you've made a great motivational speaker.

Get's handed.

They tighten this place up and turn it down.

No.

Just keep it standing, I do.

All right, I'm off.

OK, I'm just going to finish this and then I'll be off as well.

All right. Don't stay too late, yeah?

I won't.

Bye, Ria.

See you, Marcus.

Right yeah, that's excellent

Thank you.

From style icon to traitor's queen, discover the story of Claudia Winkleman

as we go behind the fringe tomorrow at 8.35.

And Julianna Margulies is taking the law into her own hands as the good wife.

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