Today Brian, an ultrasound engineer on an oil rig, is airlifted by helicopter to the Hospital with suspected serious neck injuries. It's an urgent case for Dr Kushik Lalla and his team in Accident and Emergency because, aside from his potential spinal injury, Brian has a worryingly low heart rate which requires thorough investigation.
Coastguard and Lifeboat teams are scrambled to the aid of a pleasure boat whose propeller has been caught on a rope just feet from Shetland's jagged rocks.
And the ambulance team race to the aid of a former nurse with a suspected stroke, who isn't too keen to return to the hospital she worked at for four decades.
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