Grade levels: Upper Elementary (4-6)

  • Operation Ouch! – S03E08

    Operation Ouch! – S03E08

    The Doctors head into the lab to demonstrate how your body turns the food you eat into energy to power your body.

    In “Ouch & About,” the Doctors go mobile in the Ouch Mobile. Dr. Chris meets a girl with an extra tooth between her two front teeth and a boy with a fungus under his toenails, and Dr. Xand explains why your tummy sometimes flips on a rollercoaster and how antibiotics know which parts of your body to affect.

    Plus, Dr. Chris visits the Asthma Clinic to investigate how many people in the UK have asthma and how it’s treated, we learn the proper First Aid for a broken finger, and Dr. Xand goes on call with emergency services.

    In Accident & Emergency, one patient dislocated her knee and another patient has fractured his arm while playing on the slide.

  • Operation Ouch! – S03E09

    Operation Ouch! – S03E09

    The Doctors head into the lab with a huge ball of string and some pig skin to demonstrate how blood gets absolutely everywhere inside your body via veins and arteries. They also demonstrate what happens when our arteries get blocked.

    In “Ouch & About,” Dr. Xand goes mobile in the Ouch Mobile. He meets a boy with hallux interphalangeus (bendy toes) and a girl with vitiligo (lighter patches of skin). He also heads out into the amusement park and explains why your legs get wobbly legs after a scary park ride and why your face stretches on a fast rollercoaster.

    Plus, Dr. Xand investigates how occupational therapists and physiotherapists help people get their muscles working properly, we learn the proper First Aid when someone has been knocked unconscious, and Dr. Chris goes on call with emergency services.

    In Accident & Emergency, one patient has suffered a nasty knock on his head during a rugby match and another patient has a nasty cut on his head.

  • Operation Ouch! – S03E10

    Operation Ouch! – S03E10

    The Doctors show us some of their favourite segments from past episodes.

    The Doctors head into the lab to show us why it’s important to brush our teeth every day.

    In “Ouch & About,” Dr. Xand goes mobile in the Ouch Mobile. He meets a boy with warts on his hand and foot and anotehr boy with flat feet. He also heads out into the amusement park and explains why some people get sick on the rollercoaster and why your eye gets red when it’s scratched.

    Plus, Dr. Chris investigates how scientists are using urine as a power source, we learn the proper First Aid for someone who’s choking, and Dr. Xand goes on call with emergency services.

    In Accident & Emergency, one patient has a crayon stuck in her ear and another patient has a broken nose.

  • Operation Ouch! – S04E01

    Operation Ouch! – S04E01

    The Doctors head into the lab where they use a pig’s spinal column and some dominoes to show us what a spinal cord looks like and what nerves and the myelin sheath do.

    The Doctors also go “Ouch & About” in the Ouchmobile where Dr. Xand meets a girl with a visible line of Blaschko running down her tummy and a girl with mosaicism, while Dr. Chris explains why we turn red when we’re shy and why a paper cut hurts so much.

    Dr. Xand collects some samples from people’s hands and then takes those samples to a lab to investigate why it’s so important to wash your hands as often as possible.

    In Accident & Emergency, one patient has a candy stuck up her nose and another patient has a sore and swollen ear.

    Plus, we learn how the mindbending Ebbinghaus Illusion works and Dr. Chris goes on call with an emergency medical team.

  • Operation Ouch! – S04E02

    Operation Ouch! – S04E02

    The Doctors head into the lab where where Dr. Xand draws some of Dr. Chris’s blood and puts it in a centrifuge machine to show us the different components of our blood. Then, they cut into a pig femur to show us where blood comes from.

    The Doctors also go “Ouch & About” in the Ouchmobile where Dr. Chris meets a boy with a poliosis and a girl with scleral melanocytosis, while Dr. Xand explains why your mouth waters just before you vomit.

    Dr. Chris meets a boy with epilepsy who is going to have surgery to have a small piece of his brain removed in an attempt to prevent future epileptic siezures.

    In Accident & Emergency, one patient has an agonisingly painful ankle and another patient has had her hand trampled by her horse.

    Plus, we learn a mindbending trick and Dr. Xand goes on call with an emergency medical team.

  • Operation Ouch! – S04E03

    Operation Ouch! – S04E03

    The Doctors invite an opera singer into their lab to demonstrate the power of the diaphragm. They use a pig’s innards and some balloons in a bottle to show us what a diaphragm looks like and how it works.

    The Doctors also go “Ouch & About” in the Ouchmobile where Dr. Xand meets a boy with a double crown and a boy with a facial scar, while Dr. Chris explains why some twins are very different from each other.

    Plus, the Doctors work with their Dad to perform some DNA analysis to investigate who stole Dr. Xand’s strawberry milk.

    In Accident & Emergency, one patient has a staple in his finger and another patient has a cut in her eyebrow.

    We also learn a mindbending trick and Dr. Chris goes on call with an emergency medical team.

  • Operation Ouch! – S04E04

    Operation Ouch! – S04E04

    The Doctors head into the lab where they’ve set up a poo factory to explain how our bodies make poo and why we sometimes get diarrhea.

    The Doctors also go “Ouch & About” in the Ouchmobile, where Dr. Chris meets a boy with psoriasis and a girl with pseudoachondroplasia, while Dr. Xand explains why verrucas are so infectious.

    Plus, Dr. Xand investigates how figure skaters manage to do all those spinning tricks without getting dizzy and falling over.

    In Accident & Emergency, one patient has a broken arm and another patient has a terribly painful toe.

    We also learn a mindbending trick and Dr. Xand goes on call with an emergency medical team.

  • Operation Ouch! – S04E05

    Operation Ouch! – S04E05

    The Doctors head into the lab where they test the hypothesis of new research into why the skin on our fingers and toes go wrinkly in the bath.

    The Doctors also go “Ouch & About” in the Ouchmobile, where Dr. Xand meets a brother and sister duo with a squint in opposite eyes and a set of brothers who have very stretchy collagen, while Dr. Chris explains why we get shorter during the day.

    Plus, Dr. Chris investigates some research into how much exercise is safe for children with heart conditions to perform.

    In Accident & Emergency, one patient has a mystery headache and another patient has a dislocated jaw.

    We also learn a mindbending trick and Dr. Xand goes on call with an emergency medical team.

  • Operation Ouch! – S03E03

    Operation Ouch! – S03E03

    The Doctors head into the lab for another body experiment to explain why you cough and why you should always cover your mouth when you cough.

    In “Ouch & About,” the Doctors go mobile in the Ouch Mobile. Dr. Xand meets with one patient who seems to be taking a long time to lose his baby teeth and a set of twin patients who want to know why they’re not identical, while Dr. Chris explains what causes hiccups and why your lips get chapped in the winter.

    Plus, Dr. Xand observes a cochlear implant surgery and explains how they help deaf people hear, we learn the proper First Aid for treating something nasty in your eye, and Dr. Xand goes on call with emergency services.

    In Accident & Emergency, one patient has a LEGO piece stuck up his nose and another has a bump on her head that may have resulted in a concussion.

  • Operation Ouch! – S03E04

    Operation Ouch! – S03E04

    The Doctors head into the lab with Mr. Bigmouth to illustrate how you taste your food and how a cold, and even your age, can affect your sense of taste.

    In “Ouch & About,” the Doctors go mobile in the Ouch Mobile. Dr. Chris meets a brother and sister with teeth problems and a boy whose little fingers are both bent, while Dr. Xand explains why our fingernails sometimes turn black and why our faces turn red when we’re upside down.

    Plus, Dr. Chris comes face-to-face with his own skull as he investigates how 3D printing technology is revolutionising medicine, we learn the proper First Aid for a bleeding gash on your head, and Dr. Xand goes on call with emergency services.

    In Accident & Emergency, one patient has cut her hand on some glass and another has a cut above his eye.