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Slightly more senior than junior doctors sketch

Hi, my attempt at parody at that bbc three series

FX: SOUND OF BEEPING FROM A HEART MONITOR

ANNOUNCER: (VO) Coming soon on BBC3, from the makers of "Junior
Doctors: Your Life in their Hands" comes a new series,
"Slightly more Senior Doctors: You're better off with this lot."

NARRATOR: Dr Adam must get the cannula into the vein. If he can't, the patient will go without life saving fluids, and could potentially die, which is probably the worst thing that could happen to a.....

DOCTOR: Done it!

NARRATOR: Oh. But if he hadn't got it into the vein then it would have been a disaster.

DOCTOR: It's easy though. I've been here 4 years.

NARRATOR: But what about that really difficult procedure, the one where stick a tube down someone's nose, that's really difficult, and would relieve the patients severely obstructed stomach, and stop him from dying, which is the worst outcome that can happen to a slightly more senior doctor.

DOCTOR: Did it two hours ago.
NARRATOR: Really?

DOCTOR: Yep, got it in one.

NARRATOR: Oh. Right. Well, to a slightly more senior doctor, all these difficult procedures take their toll.

DOCTOR: No they don't. I slept perfectly last night, and now I'm going to go home on time to my beautiful fiancé, and then we're going out for dinner.

NARRATOR: It's jeopardy like this that makes....

DOCTOR: (EXASPERATED) There is no jeopardy!

NARRATOR: Well, can't you create some? Miss a few veins? Get a patients test results mixed up? Send the wrong bed to the mortuary? You know like the junior doctors, they never get it right! You, you're just too....good at your job!

ANNOUNCER: (VO) That's slightly more senior doctors, Thursday at nine on BBC3, or press the red button afterwards for "Medical Students: You may as well just die."

END

I enjoyed this especially the end, I have never seen the show you are parodying though, which probably means it is a good sketch if I can enjoy it without having seen the show.

Basically if you haven't seen the show, they filmed a load of new doctors in their first few weeks, but the level of jeopardy placed on them by the narrator was horrific....they made the most mundane procedures sound like open heart surgery...

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