Vital Signs

"Vital Signs" is the 184th episode of Casualty and the 8th episode of the 11th series.

Synopsis
A homeless woman, Gerry, comes in drunk and Gloria discharges her after finding nothing wrong with her. She later falls into a skip after messing about on a building site. Jude ignores Mike's instructions to repeat an x-ray and when Gerry falls off a trolley she breaks her neck, having damaged it in the initial fall. Her sister Lydia abandons her. Richard collapses while treating a patient, Chivers; he convinces his colleagues it is simply a bad ankle but in fact he has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. A boy, Ravi, is having his birthday party run by his bickering grandmothers, Priya and Vera. He suffers bad burns while trying to retrieve a guy from a bonfire. His mother Julia tells the grandmothers that they are moving away but invites them to come along. Jamie, an RAF pilot, is returning to duty after an accident but is scared of flying again and ends up suffering a fit; he has epilepsy. He then starts choking and Kate and Gloria discover he took an overdose of paracetamol when his wife Sally left him; they have been eating away at his liver and his chances of survival are now slim.