The Indian Doctor (2010-2013)
Click to viewI started watching this because I'd enjoyed Sanjeev Bhaskar's work in Unforgotten, and I'm rather charmed with it so far. Classic fish out of water type story, with the NHS in the 1960s recruiting doctors from countries that were current or former parts of the British Empire. So we have Prem Sharma, an Indian doctor, and his wife, Kamini, arriving ( Read more... )
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The last case was in 1977, and this was set in the early 60s, so possible. A plot point was where it came from, especially since the doctor's mother-in-law had just arrived from India. Ironically, she was vaccinated, but the prejudice was still there.
My mother had a very old school doctor from when she was a kid up through adulthood. He also was her ob when she was pregnant with me, he delivered me, then was my doctor for years too. I got every vaccine because he said so, but also because my mom was old enough to have seen some of those diseases. IIRC doc also said something about having seen too many kids buried by their parents and a vaccine would have saved them.
I've often said vaccines are a victim of their own success. When they work, people forget how horrific it was before them. Within a couple of generations, we started forgetting.
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My parents knew people affected by polio. I remember a friend of my dad’s who wore a leg brace and walked with a limp from childhood polio.
The more recent outbreaks of measles and whooping cough are horrifying. I feel like videos of kids struggling to catch their breath should be shown in every school health class to teach the importance of “this is why we vaccinate.” Maybe we can reverse the anti-vax trend by the next generation. Soon enough, I think MRNA vaccines will just be par for the course. “Here’s anti-HIV, anti-Ebola, anti-Dengue Fever, anti-Malaria. Come back in October for this years flu and SARS2 shots.”
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