gailipoo I'm not a person that usually likes Australian drama shows much, but this one I really liked. The story line was good and the acting was excellent. Very believable characters and great writing. I was surprised to find myself looking forward to each episode. I realise the ending was very sad, but I hope they find a way to continue this drama for at least one more season. I would definitely watch it.

Pete My favourite show of the week (it's a tie with Utopia). Alright, I'm a sucker for beautiful women, especially, beautiful women who can play character roles. There is a separate review that wants to critique the hospital procedures. Me, I'm just gobsmacked to see innards exposed and organs such as a beating heart exposed and held in a surgeon's hands. The storyline is emotionally draining, so my wife won't watch it. Me, I'm captivated by the emotional demands put on the viewer by both the life and death decisions being made daily in the hospital and the career-changing political undercurrents. It's an aptly named series. My pulse quickens in response to both the beauty and stresses laid bare.

jamesmoule I have become hooked on this medical drama. Unlike other reviewers, I only see the medical professional and public hospitals from the patient's point of view. I can understand why some in the medical profession would find this series confronting: the level of bullying of junior staff by their seniors, the level of male chauvinism among the surgeons, the arrogance, the "faces of Janus" when dealing with patients. Maybe some of the medical procedures are not quite correct but, Dr.Patel, perhaps hospitals in reality aren't quite correct either! The several sub-plots make this series a cut above the sentimental soap operas that usually frequent this genre: the health of the main characters, the professional pressure to "bury their mistakes", the elicit affairs between senior staff and those whom they supervise, the "glass ceiling" that seems to prevent women from becoming senior surgeons, the nepotism that ensures that the children of senior medical staff follow in their parents' footsteps. While many series have multi-cultural casts simply to be politically correct, "Pulse" reflects the true multi-ethnic make-up of Australian hospitals. Highly recommended.

susemb Yes, I do mean tripe, although stomach lining WILL be lost if you watch this series. I am an Aussie anaesthetist, my OH a neurologist and he actually managed to note about 10-15mins into the first episode that "but this isn't set in Australia?" Had to disabuse him of that misconception. Sorry, I only watched the first episode, it was just TOO bad to have my life for another episode.So, why it's so wrong? We don't operate when the AC is down. IF you can't do air exchange in the theatre then the air isn't of the quality required to assure "cleanliness" and so theatres would be cancelled. We don't assign cases to residents, you have a team you are assigned to for a term, so you might be the cardiothoracic resident for 10-12 weeks, you do their cases, although if they're cancelled that day, you're off on the wards! I wouldn't mind if you had a transplant as my resident. But if you sent your dialysis requiring renal failure patient home (and he wasn't already unconscious) I'd suspect that he'd arrest from too much potassium as he already would have had significant uraemic encephalopathy. You've just proved that you really aren't up to scratch, probably shouldn't have passed third year medical school let alone being a renal resident (which in many hospitals is a medically streamed resident job) and would be spending significant time with medical admin rethinking your career path.And there is much more that is just not what should or would happen in the modern Australian workplace. Seriously ER back in the 90s was a run of really bad days at work. This is just BAD! Read a book.