Yes, I saw it, was engrossed, but then I was a nurse. I feel the same as Mike and Josusa. In the 70s I worked in a maxillofacial ward for a short time and I did 2 months in the operating theatres when I was a student.
Facial surgery for cancer could be pretty horrific in those days. I was delighted by the progress that has been made and the new techniques. That face cancer operation, done in one go, would have taken several operations and painful pedicle skin grafts. But friends without medical training have said they couldn't watch it.
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I watched it on catch-up last night. Hugely interesting and the advances in operational techniques are incredible.
Watching these type of 'documentaries' is not for everyone I'm sure but from an educational angle it was fascinating and also engrossing to watch the human side of things from the perspective of the surgeons themselves. I will definitely contnue to follow it.
On reading the comments on this topic it's a good thing that some can watch and understand these operations.
I've never been able to stomach anything to do with surgery ..while being in Labour each time during child birth and given a running commentary of what they were doing and why I asked for the midwife to " just get on with it please I don't want to know. "
The midwife laughed when I apologised later , says to me "don't worry we hear a lot worse than that as Labour progresses"she thought I was joking but I wasn't .
But yet when any of the children cut themselves ,fell etc I did what I told the midwife " I got on with it! "
I also tuned in for that and I found it very interesting too, thought they made good for that woman with the Tumor.
I’ve seen plenty of people undergoing that kind of surgery and hers was the best by far. It did make me chuckle slightly to hear how frank the surgeon was when explaining his role in theatre and found him to be quite down to earth,I can only say it’s a good job we can’t hear them.The facial surgery is very extensive and can’t image what they go through pre and post op but the need medals...so brave. i will be catching up with the next episode Mike .
Busy lizzie, a life long CRICKY from me after reading the first section from Fanny Burneys description of her gruesome op.
Should have took more notice of the
"not for the faint hearted" warning .........next time I will , eeeks made me feel quite sick I couldn't get through the whole report from her .was curious how long she lived to tell of her experience.
I am also watching this and found it amazing, lets face it, all these folks would have been dead soon, and even a few years ago, they wouldnt have survived, funny thing, though I hate watching woman having babies. I have had lots of ops myself mostly abdo surgery. I do watch some of the fiction stuff, and pick holes, I started watching Doctors when I was off for 3 months after a big special hernia repair about 12 years ago, see it has a Doctor on the list of specialist at the end, but last week one of the Drs has a stomach upset, and his wife (also a Dr) said he had a temp of 100f, well we started using celcius thermometers back in the 80s.I used to work with a guy just like Charley Fairhead in what was then called casulaty back in the 70s.
Nanny Beach, have you seen the advert for one of the cancer charities which appears to show a baby receiving a blood transfusion into its stomach? First they show a bag of blood hanging on a drip stand, then cut to the baby with a nasogastric tube.
And why is the onset of labour always shown as a sudden intense pain that makes the mother double up, followed by a mad dash to hospital and the birth 15 minutes later? Presumably the scripts are written by men, since mothers know that labour more often starts gradually with dull pains at long intervals. This latent phase can stop and start for several days, and even when labour gets going for real, it's usually hours before the baby appears. I worked for 18 years as a care assistant in a maternity unit, and normal labour isnot an emergency. It's a common and natural event and you get 9 months to prepare for it!
Modern midwifery advice is for the woman to keep moving around and remain upright so the baby has gravity working for it. But TV still shows labouring mothers lying on beds trying to push the poor little sprog uphill!
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Yes, I saw it, was engrossed, but then I was a nurse. I feel the same as Mike and Josusa. In the 70s I worked in a maxillofacial ward for a short time and I did 2 months in the operating theatres when I was a student.
Facial surgery for cancer could be pretty horrific in those days. I was delighted by the progress that has been made and the new techniques. That face cancer operation, done in one go, would have taken several operations and painful pedicle skin grafts. But friends without medical training have said they couldn't watch it.
I watched it on catch-up last night. Hugely interesting and the advances in operational techniques are incredible.
Watching these type of 'documentaries' is not for everyone I'm sure but from an educational angle it was fascinating and also engrossing to watch the human side of things from the perspective of the surgeons themselves. I will definitely contnue to follow it.
On reading the comments on this topic it's a good thing that some can watch and understand these operations.
I've never been able to stomach anything to do with surgery ..while being in Labour each time during child birth and given a running commentary of what they were doing and why I asked for the midwife to " just get on with it please I don't want to know. "
The midwife laughed when I apologised later , says to me "don't worry we hear a lot worse than that as Labour progresses"she thought I was joking but I wasn't .
But yet when any of the children cut themselves ,fell etc I did what I told the midwife " I got on with it! "
The worst thing I heard was the man who turned to the midwife and said: "My first wife didn't make all this fuss.". Hanging offence!
He wouldn't have had a second wife of I'd have been her , he'd have been looking for wife three.
Hi Mike
I also tuned in for that and I found it very interesting too, thought they made good for that woman with the Tumor.
I’ve seen plenty of people undergoing that kind of surgery and hers was the best by far. It did make me chuckle slightly to hear how frank the surgeon was when explaining his role in theatre and found him to be quite down to earth,I can only say it’s a good job we can’t hear them.The facial surgery is very extensive and can’t image what they go through pre and post op but the need medals...so brave. i will be catching up with the next episode Mike .
Crikey! That is more shocking that watching the surgery programme where people are under general anaesthetic and kept very clean.
Busy lizzie, a life long CRICKY from me after reading the first section from Fanny Burneys description of her gruesome op.
Should have took more notice of the
"not for the faint hearted" warning .........next time I will , eeeks made me feel quite sick I couldn't get through the whole report from her .was curious how long she lived to tell of her experience.
And then I decided on a change of mind .
I am also watching this and found it amazing, lets face it, all these folks would have been dead soon, and even a few years ago, they wouldnt have survived, funny thing, though I hate watching woman having babies. I have had lots of ops myself mostly abdo surgery. I do watch some of the fiction stuff, and pick holes, I started watching Doctors when I was off for 3 months after a big special hernia repair about 12 years ago, see it has a Doctor on the list of specialist at the end, but last week one of the Drs has a stomach upset, and his wife (also a Dr) said he had a temp of 100f, well we started using celcius thermometers back in the 80s.I used to work with a guy just like Charley Fairhead in what was then called casulaty back in the 70s.
Nanny Beach, have you seen the advert for one of the cancer charities which appears to show a baby receiving a blood transfusion into its stomach? First they show a bag of blood hanging on a drip stand, then cut to the baby with a nasogastric tube.
And why is the onset of labour always shown as a sudden intense pain that makes the mother double up, followed by a mad dash to hospital and the birth 15 minutes later? Presumably the scripts are written by men, since mothers know that labour more often starts gradually with dull pains at long intervals. This latent phase can stop and start for several days, and even when labour gets going for real, it's usually hours before the baby appears. I worked for 18 years as a care assistant in a maternity unit, and normal labour is not an emergency. It's a common and natural event and you get 9 months to prepare for it!
Modern midwifery advice is for the woman to keep moving around and remain upright so the baby has gravity working for it. But TV still shows labouring mothers lying on beds trying to push the poor little sprog uphill!
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