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"Tensions are running high as the bid for Dr Cost's business intensifies. Ekkow worries when a patient wants surgery in order to compete with her teenage daughter."  Nice quote from the episode: "Surgery is not a substitute for a good diet and exercise."

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Robert helps a Premiership footballer who is in bad form. Martha helps a mother come to terms with her child's medical condition. An old friend of Ekkow attends the clinic for help. Add twists and turns and a bit of laughter ("is the best medicine"), and you've another entertaining episode of Harley Street.

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Ekkow does a brain scan on a young husband, Robert sees two elderly sisters, and Annie's personal trainer turns out to be not as fit as he makes out. Ekkow also faces a jet-set lifestyle decision. Another interesting episode.

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Martha and Robert face one of their most challenging cases to date - where life and death really does lie in their hands. Ekkow helps a patient come to terms with her facial injury.

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A blast from the past could have very serious repercussions for Martha. Ekkow solves a patient's unusual problem without lifting a finger. Robert and Quinn get all worked up over a patient. On a personal level, has Robert left it too late?

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Health Content in Popular Television 

Innovative Survey Conducted with Grey's Anatomy Television Show

The Kaiser Family Foundation sponsored the briefing, "Hollywood & Health: Health Content in Popular Television." An innovative experiment with Grey's Anatomy, one of television's most watched shows, to measure the reach and effectiveness of an embedded health message in a specific episode of the show from the last television season and a survey examining the prevalence and quality of health content in popular, scripted prime-time television.

Popular primetime television's primary purpose is to entertain the audience, but it also has the ability to convey messages about serious issues. Some key questions examined at the briefing: How much health content is there in primetime television? What is the depth of the health content on television? Does the public retain the messages they see on television shows? Do they take any action after absorbing these messages? Are show writers and researchers careful to be accurate about the health messages delivered on their shows?

Presentation of Research Findings:

How Healthy Is Prime Time?: An Analysis of Health Content in Popular Prime Time Television Programs

Television as a Health Educator: A Case Study of Grey's Anatomy

Source: Henry J. Kaiser Foundation

The Doctor's Dilemma (1958)

An earlier film version of George Bernard Shaw's classic play. Dirk Bogarde plays the Harley Street Doctor who must decide which patient is more deserving of medication (and who will therefore survive).