| Summary: | Returning to the wards of London’s Great Ormond Street hospital, this series observes the decision making among the various highly-skilled teams working on the wards to see the many challenges they face at the cutting edge of children’s medicine. Following challenging individual cases, this third series reveals the complexity and many difficult decisions involved in research, clinical medicine and management of perhaps the best children’s hospital in the world. Trinity is seven-years-old and has just been diagnosed with a rare tumour in a critical part of her brain. The tumour rests on her brain stem, which controls vital functions. Her parents must decide whether to go ahead with surgery and controversial proton beam therapy. Jack is 16 and suffers from severe epileptic seizures which cannot be controlled through medication. Great Ormond Street's epilepsy team can offer radical brain surgery which could cure him but carries serious risks. For Jack and his family it's a tough choice.
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