Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands (2011)

Genre

documentary film, documentary television program

Country

United Kingdom

Length

3 seasons, 20 episodes

Rated

NR

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This BBC Three series follows groups of newly qualified doctors working in UK hospitals. It shows their daily experiences on the wards during their first years of practice.

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What happens

Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands is a BBC Three television series looking at how a group of foundation doctors cope with life on the wards. Three series have been broadcast to date, all narrated by Jason Done. The first, broadcast in 2011, focused on seven foundation doctors at Newcastle General Hospital and Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne, three of which were newly qualified FY1s and four being FY2s. The second series was broadcast in 2012 and followed six FY1s and two FY2s at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. A third series, filmed at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, was broadcast in 2013 and followed five FY1 doctors and two FY2 doctors. On 9 March 2011 the show achieved BBC Three's highest ever ratings for a factual entertainment programme, when 1.44 million people watched the third episode of the first series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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