Doctor Covers Up A Near-Fatal Mistake! | Casualty

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00][Dylan] Where's Dr Nash?

[00:00:01]I don't know. I haven't seen her today.

[00:00:02]Can someone find her then, please?

[00:00:10]- Have you seen Stevie? - She's on her way back from theatre.

[00:00:12]OK, thanks!

[00:00:23]Stevie… - OK, what's up?

[00:00:24]- Need you in resus, please.

[00:00:26]Sure.

[00:00:29]Tension pneumothorax.

[00:00:30]OK, get set up for a thoracostomy.

[00:00:32]Can we have the antiseptic solution as quickly as possible, please?

[00:00:35]We need to decompress her.

[00:00:37]OK, Matty, when you're gowned up, can you make the incision, please?

[00:00:40]Stevie, you make the incision.

[00:00:42]No, no. It's fine. He needs to practise.

[00:00:43][Rida] Sats are dropping, guys.

[00:00:45]Yeah. Come on, Stevie. Grab the scalpel.

[00:00:46]Make the incision, please. Let's go.

[00:00:49]Come on, she's hypoxic. Heart rate's climbing all the time. Let's go.

[00:00:53]You don't trust him?

[00:00:57]I discovered him nearly overdosing a paediatric patient with morphine.

[00:01:04]What? When?

[00:01:05]A few weeks ago.

[00:01:09]OK, um… If you haven't reported it, you know you have to.

[00:01:15]Duty of candour.

[00:01:16]No, you know how it works. In this job, reputation is so important.

[00:01:18]If they find out about this and, you know, the other patient that he paralysed…..he'd never work again.

[00:01:24]Yeah, but in this job, patients come first.

[00:01:29]Because they have to.

[00:01:31]So if you don't tell someone, I will.

[00:01:36]Yeah, look, Matty. I… I know, by the way.

[00:01:42]You know what?

[00:01:43]I know you overdosed a patient with morphine. Dylan told me.

[00:01:49]Um… Yeah, that was your patient.

[00:01:55]I was covering for you.

[00:01:56]- OK! - Mm-hmm. Abigail Clarkson.

[00:01:58]The girl who was injured in the explosion.

[00:02:00]Yes, I remember.

[00:02:01]Mm-hmm. Yeah, well…..she was given morphine at the scene, as outlined in the handover, and you gave her another dose on top of that.

[00:02:09]Dylan caught me giving her naloxone to try and reverse it.

[00:02:13]Just a heads up.

[00:02:14]I'm going to admit that it was me, that I'm the one who overdosed Abigail Clarkson.

[00:02:21]Why?

[00:02:22]Dylan hasn't said a word.

[00:02:24]Why would you do this? We'll all get it in the neck.

[00:02:25]Because it's the right thing to do, Matty, OK?

[00:02:27]I can't work, I can't live with this hanging over me.

[00:02:31]So that's why.

[00:02:35]If you submit that Datix, then everyone's going to find out about us.

[00:02:40]And I thought you didn't want that.

[00:02:45]I just… Why do this to yourself?

[00:02:51]Carry on.

[00:02:53]Hey, Stevie, have you got a second?

[00:02:55]Can I chat to you?

[00:02:57]Come in, take a seat.

[00:02:58]Yeah, look, I can explain, with the… No, I've been asked to do the…..the keynote address at the Alderwood Institute, so… I just wanted to talk to you about the rotas.

[00:03:11]Dylan's going to need a bit of time off.

[00:03:14]OK. Well, that's great.

[00:03:15]Well done. Congratulations.

[00:03:19]So what was it you needed to explain?

[00:03:23]Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry. I should have spotted the chemical-exposure link with the patient before I brought them to resus.

[00:03:30]Stevie, come on. Don't worry about it. It's fine. We isolated it.

[00:03:32]It's not a problem.

[00:03:33]I couldn't do it.

[00:03:34]I didn't do it. I didn't report him.

[00:03:38]- OK. It's OK. - I just feel dreadful having to ask this of you.

[00:03:42]But please don't tell anyone.

[00:03:44]Stevie, transferring Jayden Griffith to ITU.

[00:03:48]- OK. Yeah, yeah, I'll be right there. - Cool.

[00:03:52]If not for me, then please do it for him.

[00:03:56]Because, you know, it's ironic.

[00:03:58]Just as I'm about to give this keynote speech, I did not think that trying to be a good father would jeopardise being a good doctor.

[00:04:05]Look, Dylan, you have done more than enough. You're willing to risk… So what am I doing wrong? He's barely spoken to me for two weeks.

[00:04:11]Nothing. You've done nothing wrong. Of course not.

[00:04:14]And I know it's different for you, but has he said anything?

[00:04:19]No.

[00:04:23]No.

[00:04:25]Matty?

[00:04:28]Matty? Matty, Matty!

[00:04:30]We need to talk.

[00:04:34]OK, why did you tell Stevie I nearly killed a kid?

[00:04:39]Well, I mean, I had to satisfy myself you weren't going to make the same near-fatal mistake twice.

[00:04:44]I didn't report you.

[00:04:45]I had to satisfy my conscience that you were capable.

[00:04:51]Ah, so you're part of the cover-up, right?

[00:04:55]If you weren't my dad, would you have reported me?

[00:04:59]Yeah.

[00:05:02]My dad, the one who brought me up, the one who paid for me to go to medical school…..he believes in me.

[00:05:14]He believes I can be a doctor.