About this season
Life-changing operations, difficult dilemmas. Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions doctors must make before tackling the day job of changing people’s lives.
Episodes (8)
1. Episode 1
Aired 1 March 2023 • 59 min
At Leeds General Infirmary, Professor Simon Kay stands ready to perform a rare double hand transplant; in neurosurgery, Kenan Deniz has two patients needing urgent brain surgery.
2. Episode 2
Aired 8 March 2023 • 59 min
Surgeon Naved Alizai operates on two children needing urgent liver surgery, and endocrine consultants Sheila Fraser and Emma Collins prepare to remove a tumour from a patient’s neck.
3. Episode 3
Aired 15 March 2023 • 59 min
Neurosurgeon Ryan Mathew must rebuild a man’s missing skull, and consultant Sheila Fraser removes a football-sized tumour from a patient’s abdomen, suspected to be cancerous.
4. Episode 4
Aired 22 March 2023 • 59 min
Plastic surgeon Chris West stops an anxious cancer patient from leaving, and neurosurgeon Kenan Deniz operates on a rare tumour behind a patient’s ear that could paralyse her face.
5. Episode 5
Aired 29 March 2023 • 59 min
Cardiac Surgeon Betsy Evans operates on her longest-waiting patient, and Professor Simon Kay aims to perform hand surgery on a teenage patient whose fingers are bent inwards.
6. Episode 6
Aired 5 April 2023 • 59 min
Surgeon Kostas Papagiannopoulos must investigate a suspicious growth on a patient’s lung, and cardiologist Andrew Hogarth treats a patient with a life-threatening infection.
7. Episode 7
Aired 12 April 2023 • 59 min
Cardiac surgeon Betsy Evans operates on a patient needing a critical double bypass, and neurosurgeon Ryan Mathew performs awake brain surgery on a patient with a growing tumour.
8. Episode 8
Aired 19 April 2023 • 59 min
Children’s heart surgeon Osama Jaber must perform life-saving surgery on a 15-day-old baby, and neurosurgeon Kenan Deniz operates on a patient suffering from debilitating headaches.