LIVRO Polseres vermelles and Cancer (Medicine in Television Series) (English Edition) PDF Pere Gascón

Polseres vermelles (Red Wristbands) is a TV3 series created and written by Albert Espinosa, and directed by Pau Freixas. It first went to air in 2011. The original script is based on the novel El mundo amarillo (“The Yellow World”), of which Albert Espinosa is likewise the author. The series, which falls within the medical drama genre, lasted two seasons with a total of 28 episodes, 13 in the first season and 15 in the second. It tells the story of six adolescents between ten and 17, who are all staying in the pediatrics ward of a hospital where they have been admitted for different illnesses: two have cancer in their leg bone, a type of cancer requiring amputation as part of the treatment; another is in coma; a fourth has a heart problem; a fifth has Asperger’s syndrome, and the sixth is a girl who suffers from anorexia nervosa. These are the main characters. Other young patients, suffering from various illnesses, make appearances throughout the series. They include one with leukemia and a girl with breast cancer, but the latter two do not belong to the Red Band Society. One of this series’ quirks is that children or adolescents dominate the entire action. Doctors appear when necessary, but do not take the initiative and, to a certain extent, always trail behind the young peoples’ activities. The term “red band” comes from the red wristbands that are attached to patients’ wrists when they enter the operating theater or are given blood transfusions.