De co-assistent

- Season 2

(2008)

Hugo is stuck with a dermatology rotation, reliving his adolescent acne trauma but able to help two patients even without a cure. Meanwhile Elin is in gynecology and looking for a room without adequate budget now Sanne is leaving for America. The new resident, country-girl Aaltje van Dongen, proves too prudish to participate in a mutual shirtless organs localization exercise. Thomas still can't quite believe his wife is no more.

New resident Mohammed El Amrani proves excellent bedside manner on rotation with Hugo, but it proves rather wasted on a Suriname drug courier. Still the boys bond. Mo's international tennis career impresses especial teachers Han and Tom. Aaltje van Dongen and Elin must handle their share in the moral blame for failing to sterilize equipment.

New resident Mohammed El Amrani, an ethnic Moroccan, immediately impresses with even better bedside manner then Hugo and puzzles his colleagues given he has an alternative, a lucrative tennis career, yet 'wastes' himself on medicine. Yet helping a hostile Suriname flight passenger who invokes her 6 year old son and pregnancy to refuse drug carrier examination proves a crucible as she swallowed cocaine balloons, there's no baby. Marjolein further convinces professor Verstraeten of her stupidity by irrationally fearing and letting escape the poisonous adder the owner ...

Hugo and his radiology instructor enjoy a hot, semi-discrete affair. Hugo discovers his shy, chess-focused kid brother Maurits, in cancer therapy, is still a virgin. So Hugo tries to encourage an affair with Aaltje, which proves infertile. Adolescent patient Frans Mulder's pa is ready to donate a kidney, but mother objects even before the team points out Dirk isn't the biological father, nor genetically compatible. Tom suffers from visions of his late wife and a mystery web-log about the hospital staff. Han operates on his grumpy former mentor Rudolf Bouwman without ...

Hugo grumbles lover Sabine won't let him kiss in public or smoke near her kids, but is really worried as sick as 'kid' brother Maurits feels because of chemotherapy. When hospital management orders staff to comply with teenage pop idol Valerio's manager to portray his anal fissure surgery on reality TV as 'vocal chords', Elin and Marjolein's cruelty is as boundless as the kid's dutiful PR efforts. Alas the test results are crushing. Bright youngster Simon Aldring and his parents, all Jehova's Witnesses, refuse indispensable blood-transfusion during an urgent ...

Boasting his physical condition, sports-crazy Dr. Han Verstraeten dares Mohammed 'Mo' to a tennis match, provided the young champion, who accepts modestly but amused, plays with a hurt arm in a sling. Even Hugo's charm can't undo a rheumatism-patient's uneasy about Thomas's undesired flirtation. Sabine dumper her ex Paul's annual check-up. Alas the pilot, who complains about migraine, suddenly experiences blindness, hopefully temporary.

Invited in Aaltje's brother fancy flat's roof hot-tub, Mo assures he isn't gay but refuses to kiss. He discovers her self-mutilation. Tommy (possibly an alias) stumbles in with a gun wound, and pulls his empty revolver refusing police contact or total anesthesia. That also overrules Dr. Han Verstraeten's instructions not to disturb him on his birthday, which his family neglects, but not Marjolein. Under Dutch law staff refuses information or entry to the police, although he shot his ex and her brothers seek revenge. Thomas now has nightmares about his wife's 'mercy ...

Hugo and Mo ponder whether a foxy girl they'll help operate and give a stoma remains a good date, but she turns out to have a steady boyfriend. 17 year-old Stan dies after a motor accident. His utterly neglectful biological mother bickers in the morgue with the respectable adoptive parents who gets to bury or cremate him. Han gives Marjolein a fake surgery lesson so they can have sex, but to her disappointment declares his adultery a one-off. His own teenage daughter is brought in ODd, but neither parents makes time for her. Self-mutilator Aaltje is in denial in ...

While the class studies sputum (spit), Hugo can't resist making public Elin's contains healthy semen. He and Mo rather cheerfully handle stool examination. Thomas finally feels his late wife's specter allows him to date Elin, so he takes her sailing- with the urn. His eagerness to kiss is taken badly, even violently. Meanwhile her ma's self-examination allows early breast treatment. Sabine enjoys a patient's pain: her kids' mean principal.

Hugo treats beaten-up aphasic heroin whore Maya, a former medical resident. Alas Hugo accidentally gets some of her blood injected, and she tests sero-positive. Given the small transmission risk, he refuses a month of troublesome preventive treatment. Since Elin's prepaid cell phone was stolen, staff gets crazy messages 'from her'. She forces Thomas to seek psychiatric help to avoid a complaint about the 'near-assault' while yachting. Aaltje questions fellow patients as if she were psychiatrist Koenders's assistant. Arthur's trap shows she's the phone-thief.

All staff dresses up for a mucus disease gala. Only Mo is on call and children's' ward duty, but that come naturally to the gentle fourteen-fold brother. Hugo was to shine as art donations auctioneer with two dates, both accepting to reward him in bed, but his leukemia-terminal brother is brought in with a pneumony crisis he won't survive. Hugo feels guilty having pretended there was more time, but Maurits already guessed and understands. Psychiatrists Koenders declares Aaltje cured and concentrates on Thomas. Marjolein presses lover-teacher Han to keep his gala date ...

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