Season 1, Episode 2
Date of release: August 30, 2024 (Netflix)
Written by: Carlos Montero, Carlos Ruano
Directed by: David Pinillos
”Here's a secret. When a woman goes to the police in order to report a sexual assault, there's no question it has occurred.”
Tell that to the people who have been accused of sexual assault, but it was then proven that they did no such thing because the victim made the assault up, or confused the perpetrator with someone else. You can be as caring and empathetic as you want in such cases, but there always needs to be a certain level of neutrality and professionalism to make sure that those cases are handled the right way, and to guarantee that the right person is going to prison for it. Leo, the gynecologist doing the exam on Joane, decided to break the law on a whim because she felt a little too much for Joane and figured that falsifying her chart would help her deal with the ordeal. In a way, Leo made an even graver mistake than Rodrigo did, because she deliberately falsified the chart, while Rodri “only” accepted a false signature. It's going to hurt them both in hindsight, either with prison (for Leo) or with death (for Rodri).
Also, is the healthcare system so screwed in Spain that doctors jump from the hospital's roof into their deaths because they can't live through the consequences of having made a mistake and killing a patient? If that is the case, then Spain won't have many doctors left after a couple of years, and the system would be broken into a million little pieces because no new doctors would come out of the educational system, since it's a job that apparently leads mentally unstable doctors to suicide.
Apart from that, I can see that the writers decided to go political with the show. Patricia is a main character, with her actor Najwa Nimri top-billed during the credits (surprisingly, a character not involved in healthcare is billed first in a healthcare drama), and besides fighting against her cancer, she is more of a politician working on her image than a patient. Not to mention the upcoming strike and the general tone of the Spanish healthcare system being so damaged that it might lead to the suicide of a doctor. The attractiveness of the cast and all the sex they are having make it the Spanish version of GREY'S ANATOMY, but the premise is slowly turning the show into a political version of a medical drama. And that I dig.
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