This Is Going To Hurt viewers break down in tears at harrowing doctor suicide scene

THIS Is Going To Hurt viewers have broken down in tears after a harrowing doctor suicide scene. The seven part series stars Ben Whishaw as Adam, a junior NHS doctor juggling the stressful long hours of his job with his crumbling personal life and relationship. The comedy-drama doesn’t hold back on the difficulties faced by […]

THIS Is Going To Hurt viewers have broken down in tears after a harrowing doctor suicide scene.

The seven part series stars Ben Whishaw as Adam, a junior NHS doctor juggling the stressful long hours of his job with his crumbling personal life and relationship.

The comedy-drama doesn’t hold back on the difficulties faced by NHS staff, and the penultimate episode highlights how some medics can pay the ultimate price because of their experiences.

The episode in question sees Adam’s colleague Shruti (Ambika Mod) silently suffering as she makes her way through her shifts and time at home.

While her proud parents continuously congratulate her on her “amazing job”, Shruti is increasingly disillusioned with being a junior doctor and doesn’t even tell anyone that she passed her exams first time.

After saving a woman’s life who had been transferred from a private hospital where Adam was doing a locum shift, Shruti empties her locker and tells Adam she has some time off booked in.

They then walk out of the hospital together before Shruti looks at the camera and tells viewers: “I’m sorry, I really did try.”

She is then seen walking down the road by herself before another scene cuts between a police car pulling up at her flat and Adam arriving at work to find his colleagues in tears.

He then finds out the tragic news that Shruti had taken her own life, before he was seen sobbing quietly by himself next to one of the incubators.

Viewers were equally upset at Shruti’s death, with one writing on Twitter: “ThisIsGoingToHurt… Shruti… that deeply affected me.

“After watching the last two episodes, I lay in bed thinking about it all and actually cried for all the NHS workers that have felt their only way out of the cycle was to take their own lives. Our NHS needs proper funding.”

Another added: “It breaks my heart that Shruti’s story is a reality. in fact the whole show is the reality of overworked nhs staff who deserve so much more.”

A fellow viewer tweeted: “Heartbreaking watching Shruti in #ThisIsGoingToHurt – asked my partner ‘It wasn’t like this when you were an F1 right?!’ Partner is silently crying & doesn’t say anything.”

This is Going to Hurt is available as a boxset on BBC iPlayer.