The Sunday Telegraph

Your Body Uncovered with Kate Garraway

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BBC Two, 8pm; Wales, 8.30pm

Two patients are given access to augmented reality scans of their own bodies to assess the cause of the problem and the best possible solution in the company of medical profession­als. Trudi is struggling with a frozen shoulder, stopping her from performing everyday tasks. Hilda, meanwhile, has 90-plus fibroids on her uterus (five to 10 is the norm), with the crippling pain and regular bleeding proving both exhausting and traumatic. The jovial Trudi is offered a steroid injection. Hilda, though, must decide whether to undergo an operation that could necessitat­e a hysterecto­my. For all her personal experience of health challenges after her husband’s Covid diagnosis, host Kate Garraway’s presence borders on the superfluou­s, but she does give a welcome shoulder to cry on. Otherwise, this is good, solid publicheal­th broadcasti­ng, interspers­ed with time-filling quick tips and a clearheade­d assessment of good medical practice: knowledge is power, for patients as much as doctors.

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