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WOMAN: Ambulance. What's the emergency?

MAN: It's a shark attack. OK.

Yeah. OK.

NARRATOR: The Gold Coast,

where the lights burn bright and the sunshine never ends.

While many Aussies call it home...

every year, 12 million tourists come to play

on this stretch of golden coastline.

MAN: We received a call. There's a man who's been shot in the abdomen.

The bullet has hit a number of big veins.

(SIREN WAILS)

But the good times can often turn ugly...

Steve, where are you at the moment, mate?

..and when they do... Can you feel me tickling your thumb?

..these are the people you want on your side.

It looks bad to me, but you just have to trust.

He's a brave little thing.

Whether you're just visiting or you live here...

My baby's life is going to be cut shorter because of this.

I'm just worried about my two children.

She can't be replaced.

..these are the real stories...

He was gonna kill me.

..of the cutting-edge medical teams...

MAN: 51-year-old fellow bitten by a shark.

Had a massive bite to his thigh.

..who pick you up...

Go and cheer Mummy up and then I'll come for a cuddle soon.

..patch you up...

Superpower.

The fairy dust's very magical and it fixes all sorts of things.

..and put you back in paradise.

Where else would you rather be? (LAUGHS)

Tonight on Gold Coast Medical,

a former champion boxer faces his toughest opponent.

MAN: I'll never get that image out of my head,

about this shark latching onto my thigh,

chewing away, you know, trying to... (IMITATES GNAWING)

and just going to town on me leg.

And he fought back with just one punch.

Not many people can, you know, take a nine-foot white pointer

and live to tell the tale.

A nervous mum waits for answers about her tiny baby.

She's having periods of between 30 seconds and a minute

where she's not breathing.

So it's petrifying for parents.

WOMAN: I just don't fit the stereotype.

And the first female brain surgeon in Queensland

uses an unorthodox method to sharpen her skills.

I love all those computer games,

from Mario Kart, to World Of Warcraft to Pokemon.

♪ I've been waiting for all my life

♪ Now I'm ready Ready, machete

♪ Watch me fly... ♪

Gold Coast University Hospital's head of orthopaedics

is Professor Randy Bindra.

'Professor' generally means someone who's very smart...

No, not really. (LAUGHS)

'Professor' really means that Randy has a secret teaching role

in the lecture theatre and in the operating theatre.

Surgeons come from all over the world to complete their speciality training

at this buzzing new hospital.

I think the commonest mistake

is people give the block right before starting.

And then it's not long enough, right?

It's a very international hospital.

Everybody I interact with or work with

has some different story,

so it's largely a mixed population of people

with different ideas and backgrounds,

so it's a very fun place to work.

Randy regularly works alongside London-born plastic surgeon

Dr Raja Sawhney.

The pair are deep in a hand reconstruction

when Randy gets a call from a doctor at a regional hospital.

Hi. How's it going?

MAN: (ON PHONE) Well, could be better.

Lismore Hospital has a seriously ill patient

who urgently needs Randy's help.

Yeah, a 51-year-old fellow who's been bitten by a shark.

Had a massive bite to his thigh

but also sustained several lacerations to his left hand.

The most significant one is one that is...

Alright. Is he stable enough to shift him over or is he...?

He would be stable enough, definitely, yeah.

Alright. Cheers.

Sharks are now attacking one surfer a week along the east coast

as these predators prey closer to shore.

This is the second man mauled by a four-metre monster

transferred to the Gold Coast University Hospital

in the last month.

Oh, yeah, I only moved to this country, like, nine months ago

so I saw my first one last month

and now I've seen the second one real soon, so...

My mates in the States,

I keep telling them I'm treating shark bites

and they can't believe it.

I'm gonna become a shark expert by the end of this month, I think.

The director of neurosurgery

is not just your average everyday brain surgeon.

WOMAN: I just don't fit the stereotype.

You know, and even to this day, if I have a male registrar

who's, you know, a foot taller than me and male,

you know, the patients will look to them as the first thing.

OK. Let's have a look. Whoa, there we go.

Dr Teresa Withers, known as 'T-Kay' around the hospital,

was Queensland's first female brain surgeon.

Squeeze my fingers. Whoa, not too tight. No... (LAUGHS)

When I first started, it was very male-dominated.

I could fill a book of the comments that were made to me.

You'll be able to wash your hair. They'll take that off for you today.

I don't make an issue of it, 'cause I think if you're good,

people will know you're good.

He'll need definitely an ICU bed, yeah, or HDU bed.

T-Kay has kept pretty busy training new brain surgeons,

helping her own three kids with their studies

and knocking off a master's degree.

Somehow she still finds plenty of time for her patients.

Obviously, with her brace and things,

we'll need to have a bit of a think of how that's gonna be,

but just another bit of a chapter to add to her story, hey?

I like to know my patients.

They often tell me their stories they know about their families.

Alright, champions. We'll see how we go, OK?

And that's just the way that I practise.

Hello. Long journey. Yes.

Am I going through tomorrow?

Absolutely. Yep.

T-Kay's next patient is 60-year-old call centre worker Love.

About six years ago, I started to get headaches, nausea

and I have very high blood pressure and they keep wondering why.

OK, so we put the helmet on now.

And that's the part that takes all the pictures.

That's the antenna. OK?

Recent MRI scans revealed the shocking truth -

Love has a tumour the size of an apple growing in her brain.

The tumour is this large white area here,

which has taken up the contrast agent that we've injected

and that's why it's now showing up bright on the image.

To get to that size, I know it has to happen very slow-growing,

'cause otherwise, you know, if something suddenly happens,

like, if you bleed in that area,

you'll be unconscious and you'll have stroke-like problems,

so this has been slowly, slowly growing over her lifetime.

I can walk now? Yep.

The giant tumour could have been shedding cancer cells

into love's bloodstream for years.

A biopsy during tomorrow's long, difficult removal

will find out if it's malignant.

I know I'm gonna die, right, if it's malignant.

I've gotten rid of most things, half of the things at home already.

I've given them away.

I'm just worried about my two children.

They're the ones...

The other one is disabled - I look after him.

And I arranged that he gets looked after after me

with a housing commission place

'cause he's got nowhere to stay.

He cries every day. The other one is in Cambodia. He's the younger one.

He's saying...

he can't leave because he's working.

Love's life and that of her handicapped son

are now in the hands of Dr T-Kay.

It's early Sunday morning

and the most recent shark victim

has been transferred from Lismore Hospital.

REPORTER: The shark sank its teeth into Craig's thigh and his board,

leaving behind a 40cm bite mark.

His board's flipped up. He's gone in the water.

A tail's been thrashing.

But the former boxer fought back.

He's got a couple of punches in

and he's got damage to his hand as a result of that.

Craig is lucky to be alive

and remarkably, he's able to tell his story

while being prepped for his morning surgery.

His head would've been that (BLEEP) wide,

with the sharpest teeth you could possibly imagine

digging into me... (IMITATES GNAWING) like that.

Oh, you bastard. Boom!

I got to fight to survive.

So, well, I hit him. To kill or be killed.

He was gonna kill me.

If I didn't hit him, I was dead.

What do I do? Just let it chew me leg?

No! I had to hit the bugger.

So I hit him. He let go.

(LAUGHS) You beauty.

"See if you can paddle in.

"Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.

"Ooh, made it, made it, made it, made it."

As well as the hand injury,

51-year-old Craig copped a massive bite to the left thigh.

Such is the extent of the damage,

Professor Randy Bindra has called in a crack team.

At Lismore, they did a great job in restoring circulation to the hand,

so they took care of the immediate problem.

Now what's left for us to take care of

are the damaged tendons and nerves in the hand.

MAN: Good to see you again, Doc.

Good to be here, mate.

Nowhere else I'd rather be. (MEN LAUGH)

Beautiful Sunday on a yacht fest?

Luckily there's many of them, so... Yeah. (LAUGHS)

Craig. How are you?

Francois.

Dr Francois Tudor is a lower-limb trauma surgeon.

He'll be tackling the big bite in the leg

while at the same time Randy finds out how many tendons

are severed in Craig's hand.

There's nine tendons, two arteries, two nerves.

It's gone through everything, down to bone

On Craig's leg, the giant shark bite marks are inescapable.

You can see the difference between skin that's healthy here

and this skin has just lost its blood supply,

so it's dark and mottled

and there as well, so that's not gonna heal - it's dead already.

So there's no point keeping it, unfortunately.

And there's another serious threat -

the shark may have severed the sciatic nerve.

Without that nerve, your whole leg is paralysed and numb

and it almost ends up getting amputated if you lose that nerve.

(LAID-BACK POP MUSIC PLAYS)

DR WITHERS: Hello there. LOVE: Hello. How are you?

I'm very well. Did you sleep OK?

Yes, until 2:30.

OK. 2:30. Poor thing.

60-year-old Love has a large tumour in her brain

and today the hospital's director of neurosurgery, Dr T-Kay Withers,

will try to remove it.

Alright, hon, we'll see you in there, OK?

Thank you.

These are always a tricky tumour, given the size that they are

and in the past carried a very, very high mortality.

To get this big, the tumour must have been growing for years

and there's a chance it could've been spreading cancer cells

into Love's bloodstream.

That's the back of the brain.

And that's her balance centre, OK, the cerebellum, which is this bit.

And this is the tumour here after we've given her the dye.

Well, we'll see you soon.

I hope so.

(LAUGHS) I hope so.

Love's balance and memory could be affected by removing the giant tumour

but there's no way of knowing exactly how the brain will cope.

Neurosurgery is high-risk

and I always say neurosurgery keeps you humble.

Alright, let's have a look.

Those rubber dots on Love's scalp are data points

that have been used to make a 3-D model of her head.

Transverse sort of there. Yep.

The computer pointer acts like a GPS navigator

to link the outside to scans of the inside.

That's how we're planning the incision,

so you need to do an incision that will open up enough

so that we can do a window of bone and actually get to the tumour.

Learning to use the magic pointer in surgery

was second nature to gadget geek T-Kay.

I game, so I love all those computer games,

from Mario Kart, to World Of Warcraft to Pokemon.

I play all of those things.

And I played them all the time with the kids.

Should get us in, shouldn't it?

I think, for a surgeon, the eye-hand coordination -

at least, that's what I'm telling myself - it's very good for.

The surgical team takes two hours to open the skin and muscle layers

above the tumour site.

But the second they do, T-Kay spots bad news.

(SIREN WAILS)

WOMAN: (ON PHONE) Ambulance. What is the emergency?

MAN: (ON PHONE) Yeah, we've got a new-born baby.

So, she's seven weeks old. She's really struggling to breathe.

She is struggling to breathe? Yeah.

Following a worried dad's 000 call,

an ambulance is inbound to the children's emergency department

carrying a very tiny patient.

MAN: So it's a little seven-week-old baby

who was born at 34 weeks

who's coming in with respiratory distress.

Pre-term infants can have immature lungs

and that may be contributing to whatever's going on at the moment.

We've got some gluc... some sucrose.

WOMAN: Have you got an IV turned on? Yep, I'll get Sus ready.

Local mum Zoe has four young kids

but the latest addition, baby Harriet,

has thrown her family life into chaos.

She's a couple of times stopped breathing with my husband

and stopped breathing with me... which has been very scary.

Hello. It's Harriet.

MAN: So you know Harriet pretty well?

I do know Harriet very well.

Dr George instantly recognises the patient.

It's the third time Harriet has been rushed to Emergency

in as many weeks.

You know, she was absolutely fine this morning,

looked pink in the cheeks

and then I just, like, noticed, like, her skin's went mottly

and she just looked like she was desat-ing again.

This is where the last one started as well,

where she was having a few intermittent episodes

and then it just escalated over the course of the afternoon.

Yeah. OK.

And the other kids are all OK at home?

Yeah, they're fine. No snottiness? Otherwise OK?

The first time she presented,

she presented with a respiratory tract infection

from a virus called RSV,

which is a virus that causes a common cold

and in very small babies it has an effect on the respiratory centre

in the brain, which stops them from breathing.

But scans on Harriet's brain

have shown no sign that RSV is affecting her breathing.

WOMAN: And so, what was the diagnosis, Shane?

She's been RSV-positive. That's a normal MRI.

So we're not entirely sure. OK.

Veins are so tiny. Yeah. Yeah.

Dr George and Zoe are hoping that a close look at Harriet's blood

will provide some answers.

I really want to know what the cause is for her stopping breathing.

Yeah, it'd just be nice to get to the bottom of it

and know what's actually going on 'cause there's obviously...

I mean, maybe it still is RSV

but there's obviously maybe an underlying reason for it

to happen like this.

She's having periods of between 30 seconds and a minute

where she's not breathing.

So it's petrifying for parents.

She's having an apnoea at the moment.

As the team prepares to run more tests on Harriet,

her breathing suddenly stops.

There we go.

Her chest isn't moving, so she's not breathing at all.

In seconds, tiny Harriet's blood oxygen levels

drop from 100% down to 80.

A team of surgeons is operating

on the hospital's latest shark victim, Craig Ison.

Lower-limb specialist Francois Tudor

is still assessing the extent of the damage

to the sciatic nerve in the leg.

This wound is very deep and I can feel some of the bone there

so it would be a surprise

if small parts of that nerve at the very least have not been injured.

DR BINDRA: Without that nerve, your whole leg is paralysed and numb

and it almost ends up getting amputated if you lose that nerve.

Professor Randy Bindra is hard at work on Craig's arm.

A single bite from the shark has broken a finger,

sliced both arteries, shredded muscles

and scored the bone.

My arrow's moving right on that chip of bone

that's pulled off right there.

In my early teens, I enjoyed engineering,

so I thought I'd be some kind of an engineer.

And when I finally got drawn into medicine,

I decided to do orthopaedic surgery,

which is very mechanical and engineering-minded.

So now I'm looking for the tendons for all the fingers.

These tendons are fairy shredded.

So there's nine tendons in the forearm

because there's four fingers, which I have two tendons each

and the thumb has one, so a total of nine.

All nine have been cut. Not a single tendon has been spared.

♪ Do you, do you, do you, do you?

♪ Will you, will you, will you, will you? ♪

DR GEORGE: She's having an apnoea at the moment.

Seven-week-old baby Harriet is struggling to breathe.

Her chest isn't moving, so she's not breathing at all.

Quickly, the team attach a set of nose pumps to Harriet's face

and give her a blast of air.

The stream of air upsets baby Harriet and she reacts angrily.

(CRIES)

For once, Harriet's crying is like music to Zoe's ears.

ZOE: It was sort of touch and go whether she was gonna come through.

They were having to, you know, stimulate her all the time,

every 30 seconds, to start breathing again.

It was a roller-coaster of emotions.

Gradually, Harriet's breathing stabilises

and her periods without breathing stop.

Once it's safe for Harriet to leave Emergency,

Mum and baby are checked into the children's critical care unit

for more testing.

Harriet has spent five of her seven weeks in here,

with Zoe keeping a vigil at her bedside.

Come on, kiddies. Mackie, Isla, Mia. Come on, Mimi. Come on.

It's been a trying couple of months for Zoe's hubby Andrew,

at home with their three other kids.

(BABY CRIES)

What's the matter, sweetheart?

Eh? (CRIES)

Oh, dear.

Yeah, it's challenging and trying

and I guess at times like this you realise how much you rely on

your wife and your family unit.

I'm just trying to get the kids ready for school, do the drop-off

and get out to Zo at the hospital.

That's basically the routine at the moment, so...

After a week in the hospital,

doctors were able to link Harriet's breathing stoppages

to the common cold virus known as RSV.

The boys can pick...

Back at home, the virus has gone and so have Harriet's breathing problems.

She has an immature respiratory system

and if she does catch anything in the next couple of months

or, you know, when she's so little,

she will probably end up back in hospital.

Unfortunately, she caught the RSV virus from maybe a sibling

or somebody that had come to visit.

She wasn't able to breathe

and it caused her to keep on stopping breathing.

When she's not busy delivering babies in the hospital's birthing centre,

midwife Cassie is out, making the most of the beachside lifestyle.

CASSIE: The majority of my life I've lived on the Gold Coast.

It's just a great place to live.

♪ I can't get you out of my head... ♪

We have beautiful weather, beautiful beaches

and I think a strong sense of community as well.

Where else would you rather be? (LAUGHS)

I live in Elanora, with my partner Zacky.

We have two cats, Pookie and Calisi. They're our fur babies.

We don't have any human babies yet,

although I'm getting a lot of pressure from my mother. (LAUGHS)

Ready for your shift? Yep.

Zacky has just been the most amazing partner to me.

Alright. I love you, hon. I'll see you in the morning.

Drive safely. Yep. Will do.

He's been so supportive of me being a midwife,

which I think that you definitely need that in a partner

if you're gonna do this job, because it's quite demanding sometimes.

It's lucky that Zac is so understanding

because Cassie's next shift will take her right through Saturday night

and into Sunday morning.

Hi, Alana. How you going? Hey, Cassie. How are you?

Good. Are you working with me today? Yeah, I'm on shift.

Alana and I have just been assigned our first women

that we're gonna be caring for for the night

and this lady's having her third baby

and she's come in to be induced because she's overdue.

Hey. How you going, Misha? Hey, Dan.

Expecting mum Misha and her hubby Dan

are repeat customers for Cassie...

Did I look after you guys here first baby?

Yeah, with Sienna, about five years ago.

Oh, I remembered your name when the girls said...

..and the whole gang are in for a long night.

50-year-old Norm has recently been diagnosed with cancer.

Just over a month ago while on a dream holiday

in the homeland of his girlfriend Emi,

a scan in a Japanese hospital found a large tumour in his oesophagus.

Norman Simpson? Yes.

Would you like to come through? Thank you.

Today Norm is undergoing a biopsy to find out if the cancer has spread

from his oesophagus into other parts of his body.

Alright. OK. See you, babe.

We'll give you a ring. Love you.

Alright.

I really didn't think in my life, at the age of 50, that I am now,

that I'd be dealing with something like this.

This can't be right.

Where? How? What caused this?

Is it something that I've done in my life?

Is it something that...

a job, perhaps, that I've had

or a food that I've eaten

or a... an excessive stress that I've put on my life?

Norm has no family history of oesophageal cancer.

The main known causes are cigarettes and alcohol,

but Norm's a health fanatic.

I'm very passionate about nutrition and health as well, myself.

I actually study these areas.

This is a part of my temple, my body

that's just out of control right now

and I believe that the words that we speak and the thoughts that we think

play a big, active role in the disease

and the problems that we have in our life.

There's certainly plenty of positive thinking coming Norm's way

from his workmates at the Bunnings hardware store,

where he's known as 'Stormin' Norman'.

Hey, brother Norm, it's brother Damo here, mate,

wishing you all the best with all your cancer treatment, mate.

We're all thinking about you here, especially me, 'cause I love you.

You know that.

Mate, note, I've got the cap.

I'm looking after it for ya.

I'll pray for you and I think of you every day and I love you so much.

We're all thinkin' of ya and... one love. Peace.

Dr Kevin Tang is carrying out the biopsy.

He'll look for tell-tale signs in Norm's lymph nodes.

They are the first place to be attacked

when this type of cancer spreads.

It doesn't take long to locate a suspect lymph node.

The ultrasound reveals an ominous sign.

Yeah, the size is slightly enlarged, probably 2cm by 0.5cm,

so therefore this is probably suspicious for cancer.

Dr Tang harvests cells from the lymph node.

If the lab inspection finds cancerous cells in the sample,

then Norm's only option will be to fight the cancer with chemotherapy.

It's a long road into the unknown

when Norm and Emi are just at the beginning of a new life.

We are planning to marry.

Well, after this thing is finished

and he can get well, we are planning to.

(SNIFFS) Yep.

It's been an agonising wait

for the results of a biopsy on Norm's lymph nodes

that will show if the cancer in his oesophagus is invading other organs.

What's happenin', chief?

Well, how are you? Good.

So, obviously the biopsy result is back.

It does unfortunately confirm that the lymph node higher up

is involved with a cancer.

That means that the only treatment we're going to be doing

is chemo radiotherapy.

Yep. OK?

Where does that put me in the ball game?

Your chances of ultimately beating this cancer

or sort of, you know, being cured are much lower.

Do you want to talk about what the numbers might be for you

or you'd rather leave it?

I'd just rather leave it, mate. Yeah.

It's within the powers within. Yeah, that's right.

So it's gonna be what it's gonna be.

I didn't wanna know what the percentage of it all was.

Like, you know, what, you give me 50%, 40%...

It's irrelevant because I'm a different person.

I'm an individual.

Rightio. OK. Thanks a lot, bud.

Not a problem. Too easy, man.

Thank you very much, Doc. Thanks.

Have a good one, eh? Cheers, mate.

It's not all bad news.

For him, there's still a chance that we may control it in the long term

so, right now, the focus will be on the treatment

and hopefully, you know, we'll see, you know, yeah.

For Norm, it's mind over matter.

NORM: It's like a journey up a hill, I look at it as.

So you've taken three steps and you've come down two.

You know, it's better than not taking any steps.

And with Emi by his side, Norm will take the next step.

Well, no choice.

We can get through it anyway. Yeah.

If I can jump through this hurdle, I can then start rebuilding again

and start looking for a future and go forth.

After a long course of chemo and radiation therapy,

Norm is recovering slowly at home in Emi's devoted care...

See you.

..and they're planning to go back to Japan

and finish their trip of a lifetime.

In the birthing centre,

midwife Cassie is catching up with third-time mum Misha.

Hey. How you going, Misha? Hey, Dan. How you going?

Good to see you again. You too. Hello.

Did I look after you guys for your first baby?

Yeah, with Sienna, about five years ago.

Oh, I remembered... I remembered your name

when the girls said that I'd be looking after you.

I was, like, "I know Misha! Oh!"

Through being midwife,

you do make some amazing connections with women and their families.

What are you guys having this time? A boy.

A boy? Yeah.

So you're gonna have two boys? Wow.

You know, you're with them for a very special time in their life

and I guess you feel almost like

you're a part of their family sometimes.

It's not just Misha who's pleased to see Cassie.

Hubby Dan is happy to have a familiar face on the team.

Oh, we've been here before,

so we've been here twice, so just take it as it comes.

Sort of veterans at it now, I suppose.

It's all good.

Despite the hard work and the antisocial hours,

delivering babies is a passion for Cassie,

who originally trained to be a nurse.

CASSIE: On one of my placements, I got put in the birth suite

with a beautiful midwife and got to witness a birth with her

and I just thought it was the most amazing, incredible thing

I'd ever seen in my life,

then went back and did my midwifery degree.

Oh, my gosh. Do you know what? I think I can actually...

Sometimes he's putting his hand up above his head.

MISHA: Oh, really? He's actually...

His hand is touching my fingers. (LAUGHS)

He's, like, trying to grab me through your...

"I'm going back in."

Looks like Misha's baby boy is on his way.

45 minutes, OK, and...

60-year-old mother of two Love

has a tumour the size of an apple growing in her brain.

These are always a tricky tumour, given the size that they are,

and in the past carried a very, very high mortality.

Table down to T-Kay height, please.

Dr T-Kay Withers is at the business end of the removal operation.

The tumour has grown through the covering.

So that is all the tumour.

OK, so you can see the difference in texture there.

It's taken two hours of surgery

for T-Kay to prepare for the removal of the tumour.

MAN: Alright. There's your in. Yep.

Beautiful.

Normally you would try and vent some CSF

but this is all completely stuffed here.

I'm someone who likes a challenge

and the reason that neurosurgery appealed to me

is because, in an actual fact, it's in its infancy.

I'm looking forward to seeing what else is out there -

what else can we do?

This is delicate work,

where one slip could spell brain damage for Love.

Wow.

There's that big vein there. Yeah.

Slowly, the fatty tumour is cut away from healthy brain tissue.

(HUMS)

You can always go back another day,

but if you take a good bit of brain out, you can't put it back.

It's got a branch of the tumour here.

It does.

At the six-hour mark, T-Kay has hollowed out the tumour

and the last piece is finally lifted from Love's brain.

There it is.

I was thinking maybe we'll put mesh back in.

A sheet of titanium mesh is cut to size

and seals the opening in Love's skull

and the layers of muscle and skin are rejoined to cover it.

Sometimes everything can appear to go really well

and, you know, nothing untowards seems to happen

and they might wake up with quite a significant neurological disability.

For Love, it's just a matter of time.

♪ Slow down, everything's changing

♪ So we hold on just to let go

♪ Slow down, everything's changing

♪ So we hold on just to let go... ♪

Do a big push down for me as hard as you can.

(MOANS) Harder. Big breath.

And then a big push down into your bottom.

It's been a long night for Cassie and three-time mum Misha

but just after 6:00 in the morning, both girls are still working hard.

Down into your bottom. That's it. Keep going, keep going, keep going.

People always ask me, you know,

"Have you had babies yet?"

You know, "Does it put you off?" and I say, "No."

Ooooh! Keep going, darl.

You're almost there. Almost there. (SQUEALS)

It's one of the most amazing experiences

that, you know, a woman can ever go through

and I just can't wait to experience that myself.

Here you go. Grab your baby.

Grab your baby, darl. It's alright. The baby's out.

I'm really pleased.

I'm so happy, though, that I got to be with them for this birth

'cause I was with them for their first birth, so that was nice, yeah.

Dan, you ready to cut the cord, darl?

Here you go.

There you go. You got 'em?

OK, so just cut just along the yellow one.

Baby's having a good cry now, so that's good.

Pretty soon, both mum and midwife will be able to get some rest

but not before they enjoy the magic of this moment.

You're tough, hey?

You did so well.

The best part of my job is when I see a woman and her partner

meet their baby for the very first time

and it's just incredible, you know.

I could cry at every single birth.

What did you get? Did you double-check what you got?

You better have a look and make sure.

Did you have a look, Dan?

Midwifery is definitely my passion

and I think that's what I'll probably do for the rest of my life.

You came out a bit fast in the end, didn't you, darling?

(CRIES)

51-year-old Evans Head local Craig was surfing

when a massive shark tore apart his left arm and leg.

Such is the extent of his injuries, it's a two-man job to repair him.

Dr Francois Tudor is working on Craig's leg,

while Professor Randy Bindra

is trying to repair the tendons in Craig's hand and arm.

DR BINDRA: So I'm putting this glue here.

It's blood-clotting factor, basically.

We call it glue.

What it's gonna do is it's gonna make my nerve ends stick properly

so that they don't rip apart.

Randy manages to reconnect eight of the nine tendons in the hand.

The nerve to the muscle has been damaged

and the muscle has been damaged itself,

so getting that good movement and that dexterity

is gonna be a bit of a challenge.

Working on Craig's leg,

Francois has been cleaning out the massive bite wound

and now believes the sciatic nerve controlling movement may still work.

It appears to be intact,

yet the shark bite obviously goes pretty close to where it was.

I've done an extensive wash-out and taken as much dead tissue as I could

and now I'm going to wrap this up with a special dressing

which provides a continuous low-level of suction to remove fluid

and any infection and try and maintain the tissue's core

when we go back again.

But until Craig is brought out of his induced coma,

it's impossible to say if all their efforts have been successful.

It's been a week since former boxer Craig Ison

was mauled by a great white

and had his leg, hand and arm rebuilt by surgeons.

I'm Dr Bindra. I don't think you remember me, do you?

Yeah, no, I don't, but, oh, mate, I thank you very much.

You're very welcome.

It looks good, from my perspective.

(LAUGHS) Yeah, good. Yeah.

Probably not from yours. That's alright.

Are you able to just tighten your kneecap for me a little bit, buddy?

Oooh. Yeah? Yeah? Good.

So, see, some of the muscles here are working.

Some you're missing, OK? Yeah.

I'll never get that image out of my head,

about this shark latching onto my thigh

and just going... (IMITATES GNAWING)

chewing away, you know, trying to... (IMITATES GNAWING)

and just (BLEEP), you know, going to town on me leg.

(LAUGHS RUEFULLY)

You're a fighter, right? Yeah, I am a fighter. Yeah.

So it's not a problem for you.

He got me hand at the same time he got me thigh.

Oh, is that right? Yeah, yeah, at the same time.

And did you punch him with your right hand, then?

I must've. I couldn't have punched him with me left.

You're a lefty, aren't you? Yeah.

But I must've hit him with me right, yeah.

It's a long road to a full recovery for Craig,

with regular skin grafts now a big part of his journey.

WOMAN: Dan's just gluing the graft on.

Good. So can you try and make a fist for us?

Yeah, that's as far as I can go. Pretty stiff.

Yeah, oh, it's real stiff.

What about if we do it for you? Yeah, you try.

We need to try and get your fingers down.

So that movement... Yeah.

..the Lleyton Hewitt... Yep. Yep.

..that's the hardest one to get back.

He may never throw a left hook again

but Craig is just thankful that the surgical team

were able to save his hand.

I'm rapt. I've got everything still here.

Me legs, me arms, me fingers, me toes.

It's gonna take a long time to get movement out of this hand.

As long as I can get this leg goin', that's...

I should be right to go home then.

He's definitely a character.

He's one of the patients you really enjoy having in

because he's good value

and he likes telling his shark story, so... (LAUGHS)

We all like hearing it,

so every time we've got a new med student or something on the team,

they're all pretty keen to meet the shark dude.

So he came down and he got you

and then he got you a second time in the leg or...?

No, no. All in the one go. Boom. Got me on the leg, latched on.

His bottom teeth's come off me surfboard,

his top teeth are on me leg.

(IMITATES GNAWING) Shaking the whole thing.

What were you doing when that happened?

I was looking at him.

I was looking at this shark that's got me leg,

thinking, "What do I do?" Yeah.

Craig, who lost his last professional bout to world champion Jeff Fenech,

has got a message he wants to deliver to his latest opponent.

I'm really looking forward to getting better and recovering

so I can go to that shark and say, "(BLEEP) you. You didn't beat me.

"You might own the sea but I (BLEEP)... I got ya." (LAUGHS)

You know, so that's what I'm pretty excited about.

Not many people can, you know, take a nine-foot tiger shark on...

I mean, white pointer and live to tell the tale.

So probably if you just hold onto me instead of the railing...

OK. ..probably...

Two days after having a brain tumour the size of an apple removed,

60-year-old Love is back on her feet.

Now, if I let go of your hand, I just want to see how you go.

You're not gonna fall or anything.

I just want to see what your balance is like.

Love hasn't escaped this major surgery

without some collateral damage to her brain.

So try not to hold onto the railing. I won't let you fall anywhere.

Oh, my gosh. Just see if you can take it...

No, I can't. No?

That's OK.

Alright, you can hold onto me if you like.

Both of her legs are numb and doctors think they'll stay that way.

I thought it was tingling

but it just started to be numb. (LAUGHS)

But that's OK. I can still use it.

I can still walk.

Oh, yeah.

This is good.

Yeah. Do you feel a bit better with that now?

Yeah. Except I can't put my shopping there.

Can I? (LAUGHS)

Oh, I can, yeah.

The side effects of surgery could have been much more serious.

And there's more good news about the tumour sample

that was sent to the lab for a cancer test.

DR WITHERS: It's a benign tumour.

She's come through it very, very well.

She'll live a long life with this because, you know, we got it all out

and neurologically she's fine and it's benign

so her recurrence rate is minimised.

It's a huge relief for Love, whose handicapped son relies on her care.

It is important because my children wants to know

whether I'm gonna die or not. (LAUGHS)

I will survive. (LAUGHS)

Next week on Gold Coast Medical...

No-one has seen me without my prosthetic bra,

not even my husband.

Now she bares all...

MAN: You ready for this?

..for Dr Raja to work his magic.

You OK? Yep.

My god, I hope he hasn't fallen down that gap.

Paramedics go off the road to control a confused man.

What's wrong, mate? Hang on. Just relax.

Miracle surgery saves their smallest patient.

WOMAN: There's nothing more awesome than saving children's lives.

I'm feeling happy.

Hey, Johnny. MAN: Hey, Terry.

And the crazy plastering team are in for a tricky pull.

MAN: Oh, my god.