Holby City hospital has seen many casualties and patients throughout its twenty-five years of stay at Wyvern, in the south-west part of England. The team of doctors led by Senior Charge Nurse at the Psychiatric Ward, Derek Thompson saw all kinds of cases and rigorously worked at the emergency department.

Casualty has seen twenty-five seasons and 760 episodes. Every episode has brought to the emergency ward an accident, some injured patients, people hysteric and anxious, and, above all, tension and restlessness in the minds of its viewers.

It’s too complicated to list all the actors who have appeared in this medical drama before they achieved international fame. Some of them would include Orlando Bloom, Ray Winstone, Kate Winslet, Jonny Lee Miller, Helen Baxendale and Christopher Eccleston among many.
The show isn’t as much about the medical cases that the doctors treat, as it is about their own personal and professional lives they find hard to examine. Their personal lives struggle to find a place along with their professional lives.

Casualty is driven by fine performances from its lead actors, who are all an inseparable part of the Accident and Emergency Department of Holby City hospital. Main cast includes Ian Bleasdale as Josh Griffiths, Suzanne Packer as Tess Bateman and Martina Laird as Comfort Jones.

Casualty, almost instantly, starts appearing as a true medical drama when it tends to rely on the fact that doctors ‘can’t save all the patients’. It can be seen from its statistic-based report that out of all the cardiac patients admitted at some time in the emergency ward, only a quarter of them managed to survive, unlike other TV shows where doctors pull through almost all the cases.

Casualty is a great TV show that makes itself appear believable and true. The fine performances from the lead cast further elucidates the point.