I call for the consultant urgently," writes Adam. My sutures have no effect, drugs have no effect. The patient is bleeding heavily – one litre, two litres. Then in December 2010 came the heartbreaking death which would eventually lead Adam to resign.Īdam began performing a caesarean section on a mother with undiagnosed placenta praevia, which should have been picked up on scans so that she was not allowed to go into labour. 'Can’t you just come in for the morning?'"
'Oh, for f***’s sake,' spat my registrar when I rang in.
On She wrote: "I’m off sick for the first time since qualifying. One of the biggest themes of the book is Adam's struggle to get any time off work, whether that be holiday or sick leave, and working so long he even fell asleep in theatre and in his car. "So there we go, the first death I’ve ever witnessed and every bit as horrific as it could possibly have been. "I peeled off my blood-soaked clothes and we silently changed into scrubs for the rest of the shift," he wrote for the 17 October 2004 entry. The first death he ever witnessed was horrific as the patient started throwing up huge quantities of blood all over the walls and started choking.
In the first episode we saw Adam being called to remove an object from a woman's vagina, which turned out to be a ring she had been planning on proposing to her boyfriend with by asking him to find it.Īnd he did get concerned a patient was the victim of domestic abuse after finding red stickers on their file, but discovered this was actually because their toddler had been playing with the stickers.
Plot lines that have featured on the BBC series did happen in real life, but some of the characters have been created for the series and their experiences expanded on. It was recommended that Adam start writing a diary as a reflective practice throughout his training, which in turn became the basis of his hit book. Get the news you want straight to your inbox.
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