Every year hundreds of junior doctors are lured Down Under to work where they've never worked before: The Emergency Department.
Cast: Marta Dusseldorp
MHDCC
Season 1
8 episodes
1. Episode 1It’s day one in a new hospital in a new country and it’s the first time in an emergency department for the Junior Doctors. Doctor Javed is confronted by 22-year old car accident victim, Thomas. Dr Jolene’s first patient arrives by ambulance. Agitated and complaining of pain, he suffers a seizure. Dr Laura unravels the mystery of an elderly patient’s sore toe at risk of amputation. She finds the answer… but can she find her patient?MCC45minNov 9, 2023
2. Episode 2The pressure is on for Doctor Javed who must insert an intravenous line for a 75-year old patient with a partially torn aorta. Dr Natalie is tasked with sedating a patient who needs an electric jolt from a defibrillator to reset his abnormal heartbeat. Dr Caitriona examines a patient who’s cut through his thumb with a power saw.MCC45minNov 16, 2023
3. Episode 3Doctor Javed is in the deep end of the emergency department with a patient who has fallen three metres from a ladder onto a ship's steel deck. Doctor Eoin is new to the anaesthetics department, where the stakes couldn’t be higher. Can he safely put 72-year-old Rhett into a deeply unconscious state for hernia surgery? While Doctor Conor tries to figure out why a seemingly healthy 35-year-old has blacked out multiple times.MCC45minFeb 13, 2024
4. Episode 4Doctor Jolene faces one of her most serious cases yet; Martika's autoimmune disease has turned a simple infection into a life-threatening emergency. Time is of the essence for Doctor Javed as he treats his first traumatic sports injury. Doctor Laura has recently stepped up to the role of junior registrar. She’s now expected to make many clinical decisions on her own. But one of her cases has no simple answers.MCC45minNov 14, 2024
5. Episode 5Doctor Caitriona is put under pressure inserting a cannula into an elderly patient in desperate need of intravenous medication to save her life. On his first day in Children’s ED, Doctor Javed is way out of his comfort zone, reassuring an 11-year-old with a phobia of needles. While Doctor Eoin must act fast to insert a breathing tube into a drug overdose patient, at risk of choking on his own vomit.MCC45minNov 21, 2024
6. Episode 6In his most urgent trauma case yet, Doctor Conor must treat a 17-year-old airlifted to hospital with suspected spinal injuries, following a quad bike accident. Irish doctor Jolene is confronted with a patient having an adverse reaction to a jellyfish sting – something she’s never seen before. And a camping trip gone wrong leaves Doctor Natalie treating an 18-year-old with a disturbing injury to his leg.MCC45minNov 28, 2024
7. Episode 7Doctor Eoin is searching for answers and stronger painkillers when a 57-year-old woman presents to ED with excruciating chest pain. Doctor Natalie is concerned her 76-year-old patient, brought in by ambulance, is suffering from a life-threatening blood clot. And Doctor Javed must work with his senior to remove a steel splinter embedded in his patient’s eye.MCC45minDec 5, 2024
8. Episode 8After 10 intense weeks, the Junior Doctors have come to the end of their rotation in the Emergency Department - but there's no let up yet. Dr Jolene treats a patient whose excitable dog took her for a walk.MCC45minDec 12, 2024
Junior Doctors Down Under
20231 season8 episodesReturning Series
Every year hundreds of junior doctors are lured Down Under to work where they've never worked before: The Emergency Department.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Eliot Buchan, Chris Blackburn, Rachael Kelly, Julia Redwood
- Cast
- Marta Dusseldorp
- Studio
- Prospero Productions
Maturity rating
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Audio languages
English
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