A patient awaiting knee surgery suffers acute abdominal pain, which combined with her underlying heart condition, leaves her fearful for her life expectancy. A woman having a diabetes review confesses to having over-indulged, a young man comes in suffering from memory loss, and a distressed youngster is unable to describe his own symptoms.

An edition looking at the risks associated with being a frontline NHS worker, including a paramedic who is concerned about a hoarse voice he has had for several months, and is worried it could be signs of HIV infection after a patient assaulted him and punctured his skin. Elsewhere, Dr Arif's first patient Mohammed has a painful abscess the size of an apple on his backside.