Review of the Season of Professional Fault Forces – Rexteled TV that will leave you terrified | Television
TYears ago, the former NHS doctor, Grace Ofori-Attah, created the first relentlessly tense professional fault series, a story of a doctor, whose errors under impossible pressure, combined with inexperience and equal stress of others, resulted in the death of a patient. Then things degenerated. It took topical medical subjects – mainly the crawling problem of dependence on opioids – alongside social problems, including the multiple effects of pandemic, the prevalence of professional exhaustion, bureaucratic ineffectures that welcome any type of error and the corruption potential that existed in any major organization. He asked what extent we should expect people trapped in a hungry system of resources, the amount of human bankruptcy that we should tolerate in health care. It was fast and in all furious directions, written as skinny and proper by Ofori-Attah that only someone with direct experience of a particular environment can.
A single episode of the new series is available for examination, but it seems to be as well as the first. The psychiatric doctor James Ford (Tom Hughes) must be in two places at the same time: to make an assessment on the new mother trembling Rosie (Hannah McLean), including the GP Dr Sophia Hernandez (I am being unreasonable Selin Hizli), contacted him for the psychiatrist of the call during the Crack of the Rosie section, the Rosie Crack, From Rosi the police are already waiting and threatens to leave if she has to do much longer.
Ford first does the evaluation. He asks all the necessary questions. Can we judge with precision if he precipitates things? If he pays enough attention to the answers? Rosie’s body language? Can anyone? Hernandez is certainly bored that he leaves him to go through the drugs he prescribes Rosie, but it is surely a legitimate division of responsibilities when he has another vital work to be achieved? Hernandez seems demanding and disturbing. What is this color how do we assess their point of view?
These seeds of doubt are already sown, we go to the section visit and to the necessary savagery involved in the ease of someone from his home against his will. The patient, Toni (Seraphina Beh) is placed under psychiatric care, where Hernandez and Ford – to the soul of Toni and her baby – clash again on how to manage pregnancy and childbirth. The frequent lack of clear clinical routes is the place where dramas like this – cardiac arrest, body, it will hurt – are the most confronted and terrifying. We want to think that doctors know everything. No one wants to admit that it is impossible or that what we really make is to trust them to be the best to weigh options and risks, but never able to ban the latter.
But the meat of the thing is in the fate of Rosie. The absence of clarity around his drugs leads him to be insufficiently under sedation during an episode of postpartum psychosis and to – in a courageously calm and underestimated scene – a tragedy. Perhaps one who could have been avoided if Ford had not massaged the truth about how long he would take to recover his service (he is supposed to live less than an hour from the hospital-he stays with his sister 45 minutes), but just as perhaps not.
And so we meet again the norma doctors Callahan and George Adjei (Helen Behan and Jordan Kouamé) of the medical investigation unit as they launch a “fitness to practice” investigation against Ford and we return to the questions of guilt and moral responsibility that impregnated the first series.
The closing scenes suggest that we will not be made among the many twists and turns the professional fault of origin so brilliantly delivered, with revelations on the characters who complicate their moral position in our eyes, their motivations, their decision -making processes, the capacity that they must be at their best at any time in jobs that require constant perfection. The new series promises to be as addictive and disturbing as the previous one, with another good cast and ofori-attah always with a lot of material. The professional fault can surely run and run – which is excellent news for viewers, if less for doctors and their patients in the real world.
