Surgical Spirit

Top surgeon Sheila Sabatini is famous for putting peoples backs up and that makes asking favours a rather tricky operation.

The Lecture

Surgical Spirit - Series 1 - Episode 1

1. The Lecture

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Sheila Sabatini is very choosy about the anaesthetists she will work with, but it is a surgeon's privilege to change her mind.

The Locum

Surgical Spirit - Series 1 - Episode 2

2. The Locum

Why is Joyce so resistant to the idea of an operation at her own hospital? It takes a woman to woman confrontation before Sheila Sabatini can find out.

Joyce's Ulcer

Surgical Spirit - Series 1 - Episode 3

3. Joyce's Ulcer

To the relief of the hospital, top surgeon Mrs Sabatini is persuaded to take a break, and who better to teach her relaxation that an anaesthetist?

The Country, Right or Wrong

Surgical Spirit - Series 1 - Episode 4

4. The Country, Right or Wrong

When a fellow surgeon gets his picture in the paper, Sheila Sabatini takes a high moral stand, a position from which it is hard to back down.

Fame

Surgical Spirit - Series 1 - Episode 5

5. Fame

Mrs Sabatini take life very seriously but Sammy Eldridge doesn't. Could Sheila learn a thing or two?

Sammy Eldridge

Surgical Spirit - Series 1 - Episode 6

6. Sammy Eldridge

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Sabitini arrives at the hospital to discover that Lillie, her favourite domestic, has been given the sack. Sabitini vows to sort the matter out. Meanwhile everyone else in the hospital is freezing owing to the heating having been turned down.

Cold Cuts

Surgical Spirit - Series 2 - Episode 1

1. Cold Cuts

Mrs Sabatini does so much work and has so many patients waiting to see her that she is getting annoyed at Dr Haslam being very slow getting them off to sleep.

The Copeland Affair

Surgical Spirit - Series 2 - Episode 2

2. The Copeland Affair

Sheila Sabatini asks her colleague Jonathan Haslam to talk to her erring son Daniel.  While Sheila is teaching, a class a pupil goes to sleep.

Educating Daniel

Surgical Spirit - Series 2 - Episode 3

3. Educating Daniel

Sheila Sabatini has handed over her operating list. Her registrar Doctor Thomas is in the theatre while she attends to patients in her consulting rooms.

Doubting Thomas

Surgical Spirit - Series 2 - Episode 4

4. Doubting Thomas

Sheila Sabatini has a phone call at work. She goes rigid with panic as she hears the voice of her soon-to-be ex-husband and tells him he has a wrong number; desperate as she is to talk to him.

The Phone Call

Surgical Spirit - Series 2 - Episode 5

5. The Phone Call

Sheila Sabatini has an invitation to a Buckingham Palace garden party.  She intends to be accompanied by Jonathan Haslam, but he has a date at another piece of London greenery.

The Garden Party

Surgical Spirit - Series 2 - Episode 6

6. The Garden Party

Joyce is concerned people think she is not coping with her job when she is given an efficient new assistant and fears no-one will need her anymore. However, with the help of a Spanish cleaner, she finds a way of dealing with the situation.