Max arrives back in A&E as a patient's broken leg is being set. He proposes to Tina and then finds his first patient is a dog, who has been bitten by his owner's snake. It's taken to the staff room to recuperate whilst it's owner goes to do her snake act. But when the snake bites her, she's rushed back into Casualty but there's no snake venom because it was used on the dog. After frantic calls to surrounding hospitals, some is finally found and she is saved. Two sets of parents are at their wits ends after their daughters are rushed into A&E. The twelve-year-old is allergic to light and was knocked down by a car, as she ran after her father. Quick thinking by Max saves the day, when he orders the lights to be dimmed but she has extensive burns to her hands and face. Her parents are reunited and decide to go with her, on her dream holiday to America. The fourteen-year-old is pregnant by a young man who works for her father. He issues orders for the boyfriend to be beaten up an
Casualty is the world's longest running and most successful medical drama series on television. It depicts the private and working lives of the patients, doctors, nurses and all others attending a small but frantically busy accident and emergency department of the large Holby General hospital. By mixing episodic plots with longer, character-based stories it ensures that we get to know the characters as people with lives, not just doctors or nurses. With consistently superb storylines and great acting, Casualty is compulsive viewing. The show began in 1986 and since then only one character remains; the one and only Charlie Fairhead played by Derek Thompson.