Maternal - First Season

'Catherine!' Hi, are you through?

'Yeah. I'm in the arrivals by the baggage.

'But I can't see you.' I'm driving around, Elis is asleep.

But I'll pull into the arrivals bay so you can jump in, silver TT.

'I remember.'

There's, er... a cup of tea on the side.

Thank you.

Would you want to drive in together this morning?

Er, yeah. That'll be nice.

Hi. Hi.

You can sit in the front, she's fine.

There's Daddy.

Hey, Elis.

Hello, Catherine. I'm Brigitta.

Lars' wife.

Maggie! Where is she?

I don't know, coming? Hurry up! Come on.

Morning.

Come on, we're gonna be late! Not shutting the door, no?

My toast is broken. Right, well, let's stick it together, shall we?

Ready? She's sitting on it.

If you loosen... Yeah. I can see it.

No, if you loosen it, then you can get it on easier.

Yeah, I know how it works. I bought it and installed it, OK?

Eat your toast up.

Give me the bag.

Oh... What? Jesus!

Daddy, turn it back on! Daddy!

Sami! That's too much noise for Mummy.

Did you sleep at all last night? I thought I heard him at 2:30.

You didn't come back to bed.

I can't have a conversation with all this...

Sami, can you just calm it down?

Why don't you go back to bed for a bit?

Yeah, if you want to help me, can you help me find my phone?

It's probably work. Maryam, you need to sleep.

Would you shut up, Sami?!

It was the Adoption Support Team.

Hello, Raz Farooqi.

Oh, wow that's, erm...

Wow. Erm...

Can I just, erm...

Yeah.

So, er...

Sami's biological mother is pregnant again.

They want to know if we want to adopt another baby.

I'll get the ticket.

Do you have to pay? But you're a doctor.

Yeah.

Wait. Wait. Wait. I'll-I'll get it.

Full day?

Yes. Yeah.

So, are your girls in school? What were you thinking?

I was just...

You're the woman. You should know better.

Hi, no.

I don't have change for...

I've got it.

The schedule is in the front pocket.

Here. You're a sweetie!

And your bottles are in the centre bit

and the key to my flat's on the loop.

So, er, we'll see you later. Yeah, I'll call to check in.

It's OK. We can look after a baby.

You brought your fucking wife without telling me?

She's Elis' family, too.

Right?

This is Callum Wares, aged 17.

Brought into A&E by the police, after a drunk and disorderly arrest.

He had a fit in the back of the van.

Er, Mr Wares has had epilepsy since childhood,

which is usually managed successfully

with sodium valproate.

He sustained a mild head injury during the fit.

No signs of concussion, but on hourly obs until 11 am.

An IV of saline might help with the hangover?

That's a compassionate thought.

How is the head this morning, Callum?

All right. No headache?

Er, a bit, yeah.

Well, let's see if some fluids can help with that.

Now, we don't think you've sustained a serious head injury,

but we are gonna keep an eye on you for a few hours.

Are you taking your medication as prescribed at the moment?

And you didn't miss a dose because you were out drinking?

Right. Well, any questions for Mr Wares? Anyone?

Do you use anything else to treat your epilepsy?

That's a great question, Tessa.

My Mum used to treat my seizures with buccals. Buccal midazolam?

I don't think we've got any left.

Right, OK.

Well, lay off the booze, mate. Won't help.

Right, who's next?

Hello? Thank you.

So, no elective lists today for urology and colorectal.

Which means we can't open theatres 12 or 4 this morning.

We are down two anaesthetists and we're short on the ODP side.

It's gonna be a struggle to get any theatre time today.

OK? Thank you.

What's going on? We're not doing any surgery today.

On both lists?

Absolutely outrageous! Morning, Jemma. Morning.

I'm not going to operate again at this rate!

Jack, I appreciate it's a waste of your considerable talent,

could you bear to do a day on Surgical Assessment?

Catherine, go and let everyone down, gently.

Yeah.

How is that not a waste of my considerable talents?

You want my job?

You need to improve your communication skills.

Delivering bad news needs as much practice as surgery.

Have you ever heard Jack apologise?

They will expect you to be better than Jack.

Hmph! Much, much better.

You don't remember me, do you?

Er, I'm-I'm your mum's sister.

It's been years.

I think you were in primary school

the last time I saw you and your mum.

You took us to Maccies. Yeah.

Do you wanna tell me why you're not taking your meds?

I don't know you.

Sometimes that makes it easier.

Does... does your mum know you're here?

No.

Do you want me to give her a call?

If you want.

Yeah.

OK.

Right, well...

Hi. Yeah. Shut the door, shall we?

Have a seat.

Are you all right?

What a rotten first day.

So, let me find the, erm...

Oh, yeah, here we go.

You've written in your Case Record Review

that you asked Dr Segman to contact Microbiology

so they could advise on a suitable antibiotic treatment,

given Edward's history of anaphylaxis.

And this was roughly... two hours prior to Edward crashing.

Yes? Yes.

Good. Simon remembers things differently.

He is adamant that he was not instructed to contact Microbiology.

He was.

And he has raised a Datix.

What?

He's very concerned about the impact this is gonna have on his record

and that he is being scapegoated for your failings.

MY failings?

I'm just quoting his incident report.

You didn't document the instruction to contact Microbiology

in Edward's notes.

Could it be possible you're misremembering?

I definitely said it.

OK, well...

Edward's death has been raised to a Serious Incident.

Is there going to be criminal proceedings?

Well, we won't know until the coroner's report comes back.

But, oh... My God, I hope not,

otherwise, I am gonna be drowning in paperwork!

Has anyone spoken to the parents?

Yes. They have filed a complaint.

You might want to mention that to the GMC.

The GMC? Am-am...

Am I getting... am I getting struck off?

An internal investigation panel made up of your peers

will try to ascertain whether any mistakes were made

and if there is any culpability.

If I'm culpable? Oh, come on now, Maz.

Don't make this as "us" and "them" thing.

These investigations are designed so that we can learn

and improve patient care in the future.

I mean, that said, if you haven't spoken

to your legal defence union, now is the moment.

And that's all there is to be done for now,

so let's just shake it off, OK?

CAU again this morning?

Super.

Oh, and take Simon with you.

He actually raised a Datix?

The absolute stone cold balls on him!

Yeah, he went to Harrow or somewhere...

Mm. He's gonna get fried on his surgical rotation.

Yet, Susan thinks I've killed someone,

I'm being investigated,

the parents are complaining to the GMC and I'm smoking.

This is disgusting.

This is never gonna go to the GMC, it's an internal SI investigation.

I mean, we've all killed someone.

I mean, not deliberately.

Just like that guy you said was just a cold

and you sent home from A&E and he came back in a body bag.

I'd forgotten about that. Thanks, Catherine.

People die, they're ill. It doesn't make us Harold Shipman.

That's a low bar.

Can you imagine raising an incident report

on one of our Reg's in your first week out of med school?

Are you sleeping?

No, don't you start.