I have never been more gripped and stressed by a programme!
2 Reviews
Totally Gripped
metz-jewlla25 April 2019
Episode 1.1
Prismark108 May 2019
Jed Mercurio was a real life doctor and used his experience in the cynical black comedy medical drama Cardiac Arrest.
Bodies was a lot more bleak, looking at a new breed of consultants promoted with less hours on the operating theatre but they can meet quality targets.
In the opening episode, specialist registrar Rob Lake (Max Beesley) starts in a new post in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology department of South Central Infirmary.
Lake works under the guidance of consultant obstetrician Roger Hurley (Patrick Baladi.) Lake finds that some of the staff such as Dr Maya Dutta have made basic errors and do not appear to be fazed by it. In short there are some lazy staff among some conscientious ones.
Lake quickly comes to the opinion that although Hurley might have the academic credentials, he is not a good enough surgeon but a bungler. Anything difficult and he is likely to make mistakes.
The first episode sees Lake make an error as he takes on a patient in an emergency that he was not qualified to treat. She dies, however he is more upset that Hurley leaves a mother brain damaged and in a coma after he has treated them. The new born baby dies.
Bodies can be grim and it does not shy away from body horror. At the heart of the series is that medical staff close ranks, medical records can be massaged and negligent doctors are protected.
Beesley does well in this opener as the enthusiastic doctor who finds his conscience pricked by someone else's mistake.
Bodies was a lot more bleak, looking at a new breed of consultants promoted with less hours on the operating theatre but they can meet quality targets.
In the opening episode, specialist registrar Rob Lake (Max Beesley) starts in a new post in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology department of South Central Infirmary.
Lake works under the guidance of consultant obstetrician Roger Hurley (Patrick Baladi.) Lake finds that some of the staff such as Dr Maya Dutta have made basic errors and do not appear to be fazed by it. In short there are some lazy staff among some conscientious ones.
Lake quickly comes to the opinion that although Hurley might have the academic credentials, he is not a good enough surgeon but a bungler. Anything difficult and he is likely to make mistakes.
The first episode sees Lake make an error as he takes on a patient in an emergency that he was not qualified to treat. She dies, however he is more upset that Hurley leaves a mother brain damaged and in a coma after he has treated them. The new born baby dies.
Bodies can be grim and it does not shy away from body horror. At the heart of the series is that medical staff close ranks, medical records can be massaged and negligent doctors are protected.
Beesley does well in this opener as the enthusiastic doctor who finds his conscience pricked by someone else's mistake.
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