Returning: Emergency

Season 5 of Emergency, filmed inside the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Emergency Department, premieres this week on Nine.

The series produced by WTFN again follows the stories of the patients through the eyes of the emergency department team.

Returning doctors, nurses and first responders include Doctors Bjorn, Emma, George, Jonathan, Luke, Mark, Martin, Michael, Michelle, Mya, Terry, Andrew, and Nurse Practitioner Paul. They are joined by several new faces: Dr Assiya Halid, Dr Tinne Chang, Dr Rebecca Hughes, Dr Tristan Harding, Dr Ilya Kardailsky, and Nurses Lucy Stranger, Kiara Maieron, Lucy Thomas, Tanya Wallace and Babina Shah Thakuri.

The heartwarming new series skilfully blends drama with glimpses of humour, hope and humanity as it showcases the lives of the dedicated medical professionals under the scrubs, who work tirelessly to care for people during the most vulnerable time of their lives.

In the season five premiere, our doctors see the worst ketamine reaction they’ve ever seen. Dr Emma West fears a motor-cross rider has life-changing injuries after coming off her bike. Time is critical as Dr Scott Taylor’s unresponsive patient deteriorates with a suspected brain bleed. Dr Tristan Harding must straighten a young farmer’s severely dislocated ankle before the blood supply cuts off. And Dr Mya Cubitt treats a cheerful 103-year-old legend’s leg for a nasty infection.

8:30pm Thursday November 7 on Nine.