Sockpuppet

It’s a hospital show. Patients matter. That’s the point. Ciara matters. People will be watching this who have gone through it themselves. Same as the episode before with the woman who had multiple miscarriges. How the show deals with the loss matters a great deal to them. You could see that on social media where it opened wounds.

What I mean here though is that it looks odd to dismiss the feelings of the characters you don’t think are significant in order to accuse the writers of being sexist.

That’s putting it starkly but it looks like you’re simply ignoring Ciara’s feelings. She’s never been listed with the guest actors, and even if she had been, she is as ‘real’ as any of them. But she’s up with the main cast whenever she is in an ep and I don’t feel comfortable dismissing her as a conduit for ‘manpain’. Belinda Stewart Wilson has given the character a big presence, so Ciara and Dylan are equal in this.