Doctors Concerned About Baby’s Mystery Virus

In this episode of GPs: Behind Closed Doors, doctors care for a range of elderly patients facing complex health concerns. A woman with worsening memory loss and dizziness is urgently referred for further tests after doctors fear it could be a stroke or dementia. Elsewhere, a patient with suspected Addison's disease deteriorates rapidly in the surgery and is rushed to hospital by ambulance with a potentially life-threatening adrenal crisis. The team also diagnoses scarlet fever in a young boy, investigates a painful hand tremor, and helps patients with falls, hernias, chronic pain, and other age-related conditions.

It’s another intense day inside Northwick Park A&E as emergency nurses treat serious injuries and sudden illness. A 66-year-old man is rushed in after a 10-foot ladder fall leaves him with a severely shattered ankle. A 74-year-old woman undergoes two painful wrist realignments after falling in her garden. The team also investigates a heart patient’s chest pain while supporting anxious patients and their families. Away from the wards, staff prepare for a wedding and enjoy the friendships that help them cope with life on the frontline.

This dramatic episode goes inside a busy A&E department at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, following emergency nurses dealing with serious accidents and unusual traumas. Patients include a man who slices through his chin with an angle grinder, a woman injured in a 40 mph car crash, a 13-year-old with a severe open arm fracture, and a man who accidentally runs himself over with his own car.

From mysterious facial swelling and sudden hair loss to crippling headaches, doctors investigate patients searching for answers. A young girl faces severely enlarged tonsils, while others struggle with persistent coughing, dizziness, skin changes and unexplained symptoms. Doctors uncover possible allergic reactions, alopecia, sinusitis and other conditions, while deciding when further tests and specialist treatment are needed. An eye-opening episode following real GP appointments, medical mysteries, diagnoses and treatments as doctors work to discover what’s wrong.

The mobile GP surgery sees a series of patients with worrying and sometimes mysterious symptoms. Doctors investigate sudden dizziness and confusion that could indicate a stroke, painful skin problems, whiplash after a car crash, unexplained falls and migraines, exercise-related heart palpitations, a sick young child, recurring episodes of vision loss, and severe ear discomfort. Throughout the episode, the GPs have to decide which symptoms are harmless and which need urgent specialist investigation.

In this episode of GPs: Behind Closed Doors, doctors treat a patient with a dangerous infection after skin cancer surgery. The infection could spread through his arm, putting his health and vital hospital treatment at serious risk. The episode also features memory-loss fears, severe stomach pain, a sick baby and concerns about prostate cancer.