The setup, already well-established, remains the same, as does the location. We’re at the University Hospital of Wales, which boasts not merely some of the country’s most skilled specialists, but the longest waiting lists, too. Each episode features three patients who require the expertise of the most specialised – and over-worked – surgeons.
Then there’s Courtney, 27, recently married and hoping to soon start a family. She has a condition that means that her brain is too big for her skull. Her subsequent diagnosis of multiple sclerosis seems unnecessarily cruel. She requires brain surgery for the former. “Just us taking bits of skull away,” deadpans Dr Ravi Nannapaneni, her neurosurgeon, who also happens to be a member of Mensa.
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The patients here need patience. Waiting lists in Cardiff are huge. In the case of the ear, nose and throat department where Terry is being treated, they can be up to two years long.
Such preamble is always interesting, but what I’m really interested in is the action in the operating theatre. It’s quite something to observe surgery for cancer in the nasal passages, access into which can only be had via a throat that needs first to be sliced open with a scalpel, and a steady hand. Best not watch over dinner. Mercifully, explains the doctor, there is no bleeding – until there is. “This is quite brisk bleeding” is surely among the things you’d least like to hear any doctor say.
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Tragedy may be a daily occurrence in hospitals, but we strive towards happy endings here. Terry emerges with his bluff intact. His voice is greatly altered, but he is optimistic. Tyerone is humbled: “I’m one of those people that don’t get ill,” he says, the blithe belief of absolutely everyone until illness strikes. He hugs Dr Deglurkar in gratitude. And Courtney eventually goes home to resume baby-making plans. “But not for six months. I want some me time.”
‘Saving Lives in Cardiff’ continues next Wednesday at 9pm on BBC Two
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