One of the heroes in the long running soap, Charlie, was clutching his chest a lot in Saturday's episode. He knows everything about medicine and he and Tess should run the NHS. We'd save a lot.
Charlie tests himself, apparently, messes up his shift which causes colleagues to think he's past it and then calls the Prof, Elliot Hope, who was last seen wandering off in Holby City, with his dog, in high dudgeon, because Jac had been given overall charge of Darwin and the Herzig, Elliot's brainchild. Keeping up?
Charlie then sees the nice old Elliot who tells him all is well and that he's had a 'touch' of angina. Charlie can go back to work.
Now, I know it's a soap but it is a medical soap and I would have thought that the script writers could have done better with their research.
In the episode, Charlie suffers what looked like angina when at rest. That's unstable angina and requires treatment after a proper evaluation.
IMHO angina is a symptom, not a condition, and you don't have a touch of it..... The series should be called Travesty.....
What do you think though?
Charlie
- Prof Elliot Hope