Island Medics

Shetland is the most remote part of the UK, so when one of the 23,000 residents falls ill they rely on the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick, as this daytime series shows.
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Shetland is the most remote part of the UK, so when one of the 23,000 residents falls ill they rely on the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick

Shetland is the most remote part of the UK, so when one of the 23,000 residents falls ill they rely on the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick, as this daytime series shows.

Retired nurse Anna calls paramedics when she thinks she may have had a stroke, but having worked at the hospital for 40 years, she is not keen on seeing it again as a patient. Continues all week.