Brain surgeons

I usually avoid medical programmes like the plague but caught an episode of this programme when it was being repeated in the early hours of one morning,,and couldn't stop watching it. I had to laugh when one Dr said that when he worked in London people would come in with really serious problems but now he was in Oxford people came in worrying about their memory if they had accidentally misquoted Shakespeare [or something like that].

@Gally Poor man, he is obviously hating retirement and finding it hard to adjust. I knew a man who insisted on being referred to as Major, it turned out he'd been in the catering core, no awards for bravery there.

Sadly even in these times Elijay! My neighbour is a retired surgeon who still thinks he is more important than the Man 'Upstairs', whether in daily life or when harking back to his days of the Big I Was. Luckily they are a dying breed

Thinking back to former times when surgeons were treated and behaved like 'very important people', the lovely Raj and his team are so ordinary and unassuming.

I'm really glad that the age of deference is just a distant memory.

It also brings home that we could all fall victim to brain tumours.

I have been glued to this series too. What a lovely lovely man ?Raj is - so caring but with a wicked sense of humour. It certainly puts a different perspective on one's own problems.

I have been been watching this series and the team from the surgeon down are absolutely fantastic, they are what is still good about the NHS. Its very moving.