In a story reminiscent of RPA's most memorable patient - seven-year old Sylvia was severely burnt when she was a baby. Now, a chance discovery by an Australian speech therapist working in Kenya has bought her to RPA.
Twenty-six year old Erin arrives in RPA’s Emergency Department in severe pain and struggling to breathe. Plus, a scan has uncovered a tumour on Cevat’s spine that threatens to crush his spinal cord.
Thirty-five-year-old Shelly has been in hospital for three long months due to a series of strokes threatening to paralyse her. Ian, 81, arrives to RPA as a last resort after open-heart surgery to replace an aortic valve was aborted.
Twenty-six-year-old Roumi is concerned about a lump in her neck that has been growing rapidly, and Fiona comes to RPA in the hope of a normal life, suffering from debilitating vertigo and deafness in one ear.
A fishing trip lands Robert in some very hot water when he falls unconscious and has trouble breathing. And 35-year-old Graeme has a rare disease that is attacking bone in some parts of his body.
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