The Doctor Who gave up drugs | Shooting Assistant Producer
2016 | BBC1, 9pm | Raw TV, 2 x 60’
Britain is addicted to prescription drugs. They’re doing us more harm than good, the evidence for their efficacy is wafer-thin and they’re costing the NHS a fortune. It’s a medical crisis – and Dr Chris Van Tulleken is determined to do something about it. So he’s setting up a radical new drug-free clinic in a busy GP surgery. For three months, he’s going to treat illnesses without antibiotics, control pain without painkillers, and wean some of Britain’s most drug-dependent patients off their “life-saving” drug regimes. Instead of giving his patients medicine, he’s going to take their medicine away.
Assisting the team, I cross-shot actuality, shot stylised time-lapses and set up specialist factual shoots including medical experiments.
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Assistant Producer: Elliot Swinburn | Producer: Lizzie Bolton | Director: Jack Rampling | Series Director: Emeka Onono | Exec: Dominique Walker
“An opening eye opening insight into our pill-popping culture”
“Dr Chris van Tulleken’s worthwhile campaign to get doctors to prescribe fewer pills is important”
“Troubling, lively and possibly epoch-changing”
“This has it all – engaging presenter, shrewd approach, touching case studies and radical implications. So relax: we’re in safe hands”
