This Is Going To Hurt: Ben Whishaw stars in BBC trailer
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The new BBC One show is based on the best selling book of the same title by Adam Kay and stars Ben Whishaw. Taking viewers behind-the-scenes of a day in the life of a medical professional, onlookers shared their thoughts and support for NHS staff online.
Split into seven episodes, the TV adaptation of the 2017 best selling book brings to life the pages of Adam Kay’s medical diary.
The TV show is set on the labour ward, and through both comedic and heartbreaking stories, we see the ins and outs of hospital life.
Viewers of the show took to social media to share their thoughts as the hour-long special got underway.
The dramatisation seemed to make onlookers pause and reflect on how grateful they were not to be a doctor as they tweeted their thanks for the NHS.
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@Jo_WhiteheadUK said: “Watching new drama ‘This is Going to Hurt’ set in an NHS hospital on BBC.
“Whilst it’s fiction, feeling very grateful I’ve not needed an overtired/under resourced Doctor/Midwife at the end of a 15 hr shift to help bring my baby into the world…”
Echoing Jo’s thoughts @runner_teacher added: “Watching This Is Going To Hurt. Sometimes I am extremely glad to be a teacher!”
It was eye opening for soon to be midwife @mynamesnotmeg:”Watching This Is Going To Hurt with the perspective of being a midwife is absolute gold.”
Adam (Ben Whishaw) patrols the obstetrics and gynaecology wards and has to do everything and anything he can to keep patients on these wards happy and alive.
He works closely with Shruti (Ambika Mod) and his less than ideal boss Mr Lockhart (Alex Jennings).
The realistic storyline also shows how the role impacts the personal lives of those who work at the hospital.
Struggling to keep his love life from imploding, Adam grapples with keeping boyfriend Harry (Rory Fleck Byrne), who is referenced to often in the book as just H, happy and being a good doctor at the same time.
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The show caused one fan to have flashbacks, @ospreyalex tweeted: “This is going to hurt’. Flashbacks to O+G SHO job 24 years ago!!!”
Sympathising with what she saw on the screen, @biggi689 added: “This is going to hurt made uneasy watching tonight. It brought me back to when my ex-husband was a junior doctor/registrar. It brings back the stress and the 112 hours he worked every other week! (sic)
@Isabelwriter felt the same relationship woes: “This Is Going To Hurt: brilliant/traumatising.”
“I’ve seen that world both from the years I lived with a doctor, then later 2 emergency c-sections (when knowing what I did about doctors’ lives didn’t help tbh). Superbly done.”
Writer Adam had previously opened up about the book and TV show, and said: “I’d like to think that no one has made a medical show that’s quite as real before – and not just in terms of the clinical details.
“I remember watching an episode of Doctor Foster (which I adored) – there was a scene in a surgery and my husband asked me if it was accurate.
“It was spot on medically, but it didn’t quite explain how a GP had time to have all these dinner parties, let alone run a vigilante detective outfit.”
This Is Going To Hurt airs on Tuesdays on BBC One at 9pm.
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