De co-assistent

- Season 1

(2007)

Medical student Elin Dekkers starts the hospital phase of her training. Her first patient is not just an hello, but also a goodbye.

Elin finds that her training at the hospital and her social life are difficult to combine. Her boyfriend Job feels she has a choice to make.

Elin is a little too busy with her babysitting job, her first night shift and a new fling. It leads to lapses in concentration.

Elin Dekkers enjoys a day at the seaside with her naughty mate, her straight-forward boyfriend and her hunky fellow resident Hugo, who proves his perfect skills even on the beach. The recapitulate a stressing week on med study rotation in ER. The most pitiful patient is world-class surfer Bertrand, whose leg injury is worse then the most extreme diagnosis could predict.

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The medical trainees have a party while considering the medical staff's responsibility to take the patient's view into account. Elin is first to play patient for hands-on experience, removal of a run-away contraceptive spiral. A very real, tactile aspect is presented to the whole class in the form of two lay patient rights activists who invite them all to learn how to execute rectal examinations with minimal patient stress. A real patient and partner grieve over a still-birth.

Because she's too weak to resist temptation from her roommate, med student Elin learns the hard way for her and potentially a surgical patient, that preparing for medical duty comes with responsibilities above personal priorities. The girls actually dance and drink in a nightclub before surgery. Still she dares to blame Hugo for her own immature inability to balance love-life and work.

Eline is furious that colleague Hugo Biesterveld, whom she was dumb enough to dump a few weeks ago, is happy again with another, as if she deserved months of miserable mourning. In her rotation she arrives at the pediatrics department, where a self-absorbed, rude professor presumes her field is the only rewarding one. The kids appeal to her as sweet and fragile. The parents prove a pest, especially her former cocky date Anton, who abuse staff, especially her playing without offering any medical clarifications, now his pre-teen son Tibor needs dangerous surgery.

Elin is embarrassed when alcohol transforms roommate Sabine's charming husband Paul into a shameless flirt. Dr. Thomas van Loon brings in his wife Andrea, an MS patient. Drugs in a 'spacecake' turn a German tourist's wife nymphomaniac. Elin's ex Job is back from Rome.

The med class prepares for their first vasectomies. Elin is preoccupied with her pristine first pregnancy. Her ma and lover Job advocate young motherhood, presumed pa Hugo and her roommate abortion.

The residents pass trough the psych ward (PAAZ). Only Elin takes even to patient Raymond Brigman, a poet with a violent record, despite Dokter Koenders's warning not to get personal, let alone confident. Dr. Thomas van Loon's wife is now MS-terminal. At the party afterward, Marjolein adds intimate abuse to her constant failing.

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The residents are performing surgery. Reputed newspaper columnist, Martin Bril, checks in for a routine surgery. Dr. Han Verstraeten insists on allowing him shameless unprecedented VIP treatment 'as good PR'. In fact he writes highly critical columns, every single day. Sanne has a photo-shoot for a car commercial. She convinces the hot model to become the prominent, progressively stripping 'second subject'.