New ITV drama Malpractice opens on an ordinary night on an ordinary NHS A&E ward. It is, in many ways, an unremarkable shift for Dr Lucinda Edwards. Sure, she is overworked and under-resourced as she takes life-and-death decisions, and the A&E department is understaffed. But this, we quickly gather, is not remotely unusual.
Dr Edwards, played brilliantly by Niamh Algar, is treating a young woman overdosing on opioids when a child with gunshot wounds arrives in A&E reception – alongside a man brandishing a weapon. Moments after having a gun waved in her face, Edwards must make
