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St George to the Emergency

Seven has been shooting new scenes for Medical Emergency at Sydney’s St George Hospital in Kogarah. It will be the first in Sydney to feature in the series.

The factual, currently airing Tuesday nights, began four years ago at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. It has since added Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital, also in Melbourne.

Producer Matt Duffy and sound man Andy Postle said the stories at St George ranged “from the cuddly to the serious and traumatic.” The duo wait in emergency for suitable patients to arrive and document their stories from arrival to discharge.

“One of the things with this job is you never know what is going to walk through the door,” Duffy told the Leader newspaper.

“We spent five hours yesterday scrubbed up watching brain surgery and it was just a privilege to be there.”

About 20 St George patients have been filmed so far, including a local father-of-three who came to the hospital with a headache and ended up having brain surgery for a life-threatening tumour.

After giving his full consent the father was told he had less than a month to live.

The South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service said it would not be making public the amount paid by Channel 7 to film at the hospital.

Source: leader.com.au

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