The Doctors head into the lab to examine the gristly stuff in our joints: cartilage. They show us what causes “cauliflower ear” and demonstrate what would happen if we didn’t have any cartilage in our bodies.
In Operation Takeover, the Doctors discover the importance and difficulty of being a hospital porter.
In the Ouch Patients segment, we will follow four children along their daily lives throughout the season to learn what it’s like to be a regular hospital outpatient. In this episode, we meet two more Ouch Patients. Holly has cerebral palsy and has regular physiotherapy treatments, and Haiden has Marfan syndrome and is undergoing a heart surgery.
In Investigation Ouch, Dr. Chris investigates why animal therapy dogs are an important part of a hospital’s efforts to reduce patient stress.
In Accident & Emergency, one patient has been airlifted from the scene of a traffic accident and another patient has a spring stuck in his thumb.









