Combat Hospital Season 1 Episode 8: On the Brink


Bobby makes a controversial decision to try to save a patient at all costs, and that the decision opens a rift between doctors and nurses at the Hospital of paper 3. 

Follow the frenetic life of the resident physicians at a military hospital and the nurses as they navigate through the endless life and death battles on the operating table, and the endless conflicts that arise from working in a war zone in southern Afghanistan . Inspired by the true Canadian lead role of NATO 3 Hospital, the set is a meticulous recreation of part of the hospital grounds and the large airfield in Kandahar, including the helicopter landing zone, an area of ​​waterfront and in the barracks, which housed more than 15,000 military and civilian personnel. A role of 3 Medical Unit is the highest level of care available in Kandahar, with facilities for emergency surgery and intensive care. 

The role of three-quarters of the hospital is improvised: a mixture of tents, temporary buildings of plywood and duct tape, even reused containers that line the drive as the exterior walls of protection. Within these walls, an international team of doctors, nurses and physicians to deliver the best care in any battlefield surgical wounded soldiers, civilians caught in the crossfire, but the enemy. Rule the hospital on behalf of the Canadian Forces is Colonel Xavier Marks (Elias Koteas), a career military surgeon and Chief of the Medical Unit of paper three multinationals. New recruits are part of three major Rebecca Gordon (Michelle Borth), a high-class trauma surgeon who is eager to impress, with Captain Bobby Trang (Terry Chen), who is thrown into the deep end as a Trauma team leader upon arrival to the unit. 

The only non-military staff member of British doctors is the brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Simon Hill (Luke Mably), leaving others to wonder why he volunteered to work in a war zone. Monitor the mental welfare of troops in their period of service is the leading Australian psychiatrist Pederson Grace (Deborah Kara Unger). And as every doctor knows - are nothing without their nurses: Chief Nursing Officer, Commander genuine desire (Arnold Pinnock), a registered nurse who serves the Canadian Forces, will not let them forget this universal truth.