Updating the personal and professional lives of individuals first seen in the programme Doctors to Be.
John Shephard leaves mainstream medicine to manage a medical charity, while Will Liddell begins work on a research project into diabetes. This film follows both men as they try to carve out new career paths.
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This first of the BBC docu-soaps (so now you know who to blame) follows two doctors this week who have felt compelled to make a career change, though still within the medical profession. Presumably, it would be mad to waste all those arduous years of training.
John Shephard, aged 40, has moved into management, taking charge of a small medical charity. But is NHS management the best role model for the aspiring suit-and-tie? And Will Liddell makes a possibly temporary sideways move from his GP work to delve into diabetes research, a field that is troubled by lack of funds and by plugs being pulled at inopportune moments. Nothing is simple, particularly in medicine.