Oh, Embarrassing Bodies. Feels like I'm having fifties gay aversion therapy: shots of studly Christian intercut with pus, eczema and surgery. Might as well show me pictures of him stripping and then give me electric shocks to my ... nether regions ...
Then we're watching him sleep. Aw. A test for sleep apnea apparently. I worry about that as I have snoring that could weaken the foundation of a house, and unlike Dr C I am not some super fit stud-muffin. I fit the sleep apnea target market of male, over forty and overweight (well, just).
My heart reaches out to the people on Embarrassing Bodies. Hilda, with psoriasis on her poor feet, is a case in point. It looked incredibly painful but her steroid cream did the trick – which is more than it ever did with my Dad, who was plagued with the psoriasis of almost Singing Detective proportions for much of his life.
What really annoys me though, despite my fondness for Dr Christian's perfect form, is that the doctors are all so attractive. Some poor guy turns up with pus oozing from his scalp, or a hairy woman with a polycystic ovary plonks herself down on the plastic chair, and there before them is an outrageously groomed and glossy doctor to make them feel much more self-conscious about their problem. Still, I guess it takes a certain kind of exhibitionist to show their prolapse on prime time. After all, the subtext is How To Look Bad Naked.
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Isn't the female Doctor a super confident vixen called 'Pixie'?
ReplyDeleteI just want to grab her by the shoulders and shake the life out of her. My doctor looks like a Latvian Troll monster and treats the sick with contempt and derision. TV doctors are not real people, they can't be..
Dr Christian looks a bit scary....as if he's been assembled from cast off bits of other (possibly dead) people by a visually impaired Igor.
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What kind of name is THAT for a doctor?!
And that fake 'concerned look' where she twists her mouth into a semblance of sympathy.....
I liked the woman with the polycystic ovaries and the hairy bum.
The programme is a form of medical freak show, with added pus.....
I liked the hairy bummed woman too. I always end up feeling a huge amount of empathy for the patients and am then gutted when they don't follow them up with a how-are-they-now story. At least on Pet Rescue you'd always end up with the inevitable 'sadly Tracey the donkey's cancer has spread and she had to be put down' which would leave me wrecked for the following day.
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