YMMV / Casualty 1906

• Fridge Brilliance: A double whammy for the exchange between Miss Luckes and Sydney Holland in the 1909 finale. Firstly, Sydney saying that she would be remembered as one of the most able women of her generation implies that she did not succeed in medicine due to a genuine lack of medical competence and not institutional sexism (although this would have played a part in it) like that she which imposes on her own nurses. However, this is more than counterbalanced by him telling her that he has no regrets about her asking him to come to The London, indicating that he constantly scrambles for funds for the hospital when he could easily find a cushier, better-paid job not solely because of a vocation to help the poor, but that he does it for her.
  • Seeing as both Matron Luckes and Sydney Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford, where both real people there was no attempt made my Luckes to become a doctor, but she is remembered as one of the most able women of her time, debatably having as much impact on nursing standards and hospital cleanliness as Florence Nightingale (for example deciding that a nurse should be assessed at the end of her training and that it might be a good idea for her to have a basic understanding of medicine, rather than have no idea what she was doing while assisting doctors.) She was also only 25 when she was made matron, extremely young for a job that senior. At the time the show is set he was in fact on the board of two hospitals and a railway company, but gave most of his time to the hospitals.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Ethel at the end of 1907.
• The Woobie: Laura Goodley - "My fingers are numb from sewing shrouds" - she has to watch a little girl die in her arms, has a boss who is all too willing to keep quiet about a genuine threat to patients' health due to rank, consequentially loses her job and her only potential Love Interest dies.

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