This Is Going To Hurt x Help

这是敏彻斯特评论首次推出小专栏，在【Meditation on Med/医疗题材作品鉴赏】中，我将聊聊触动我的那些（曾经兴趣了了的）医疗题材作品。能激发我如此观剧/阅读热情的，当然是本喵主演的《疼痛难免》，这是一部制作精良、节奏明快、人物鲜活的呈现英国公立医院妇产科悲喜剧的良心制作，按头推荐大家去看。
趁着这股子对该题材的热情，我还看了《杀死伊芙》的Jodie Comer主演的《援助》，这部影片刻画的是2020年春季一家利物浦护理院中的故事，在医疗物资匮乏的情况下，护理院所经历的黑暗时刻。
在下一集中，我将来聊一聊回忆录《当呼吸化作空气》。

Hello! You are listening to a mini series 'Meditation on Med' where I talk about medical-related TV, film or book. In this part, I talk about a hit British TV show This Is Going to Hurt and an acclaimed TV-film Help.

Both works look at how Britain's health system functions under increasing stress. In This is Going to Hurt (03:26), we follow junior doctor Adam Kay's hectic life at labour wards during the year 2006. This is an ace TV production, tragicomedy at its best. I was utterly impressed by the ensemble: every small role shines and, for the leading actor, Ben Wishaw, needless to say, nailed the meanness and kindness of Adam beautifully.
The show also allows us to look behind the system, to have a peek into how the medical legal system works, the drastic difference between a private hospital and an NHS one, among others.
Major spoiler alert from 10:55 - 13:06
Really, you should have a look at this show: it is so good！

Help (14:02), starring the amazing Jodie Comer, is a much chilling TV-film. It follows Jodie's character Sarah, a new care-taker at a Liverpool Care Home, during the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020. The unapologetically raw depiction of care home workers and residents living with scarce PPE during the pandemic is difficult to watch. But Jodie's performance is moving and powerful. The film also brings back memories of mine during early 2020. Truly an important film of this era.

In the next episode of this series, I'll dive into Dr Paul Kalanithi's memoir When Breath Becomes Air, another great piece of work on medicine, mortality, and the meaning of life.

References
This is Going to Hurt, dir. Lucy Forbes, 2022
Help, dir. Marc Munden, 2021
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi, 2016
Covid: What happened to care homes early in the pandemic? BBC, 28 May 2011
一车烂话：Vol. 91 为什么我还没有成为弃业医生 a podcast episode where I chatted with friends and ICU doctor Dr Lesley. Go have a listen.

Music
Born to Cry by Pulp
2 Wicky by Hoover/Hooverphonic