Ben Whishaw as Adam in This Is Going To Hurt
(Picture: BBC/Sister/AMC/Ludovic Robert)“Welcome to the NHS!” Ben Whishaw’s permanently exhausted junior doctor Adam trills to the camera while being pushed through the hospital corridors on a gurney, squatting over a woman who is mid-labour and experiencing an umbilical cord prolapse. He is, as his unflappable colleague Tracy puts it, “holding the cord inside”, or, in Adam’s more graphic turn of phrase, “wearing her like Kermit the Frog.”
Only a few minutes earlier, he’d woken up in his car, too tired to drive home from his last shift and now late for the next. He delivers the baby by caesarean section wearing yesterday’s jumper, or as his stony-faced consultant Mr Lockhart (Alex Jennings) puts it, making the phrase sound like some particularly heinous swear word, “in casual wear.”
