Toby was a troubled junior doctor who learned the hard way that emergency medicine was not for him. His own lack of confidence compounded with the expectations of two highly successful medic parents meant that he entered his F2 emergency department rotation with a great deal of trepidation. This was further heightened by his being thrown into competition with fellow F2, Ruth Winters, who always seemed to be two steps ahead of him.
When Ruth cracked under the pressure and made a suicide attempt, Toby was deeply traumatised and struggled to cope by himself. From this low, he became involved in an ill-advised relationship with Registrar Maggie's pregnant daughter. Distracted by these many conflicts of interest, he made a serious error in his orthopaedic rotation and was subsequently disowned by his mother, a professor of trauma surgery.
(Source: BBC)
