Junior doctor reunites Green Wing cast to support strike action

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The cast of Green Wing have supported the fourth round of junior doctors’ industrial action from a picket line after they were contacted by a junior doctor. Five of the cast of the Channel 4 comedy attended the picket line at Northwick Park Hospital, London, on Wednesday 6 April to show their support for the action. Janis Burns, an anaesthetic trainee who works at the hospital, where the series was filmed, told BMJ Careers that she emailed the agents of 10 members of the cast, asking if the actors would get involved. “At the last strike I felt that there was a little bit of apathy and people were quite demoralised and I thought about what we could do to try and improve things,” Burns said. “Working at Northwick Park I knew that Green Wing was filmed there so I decided to contact the actors and see whether they would be interested in reuniting on the picket line with junior doctors, over ten years after Green Wing was filmed. And they agreed.” Burns said that after emailing the agents of the cast members …