David flirts with Anna and he is very attractive.  She had finished her shift when she meets him outside the hospital and on her way to her sister’s house.  Her sister Becca (Leah Whitaker) has her own problems. “we are ovulating” she says as she talks to her sister about getting pregnant.  Anna responds by referring to her geriatric pregnancy, “ a medical term”.   Anna is told off by Becca for not paying enough attention to their father after their mother has died, maybe by suicide.  Becca seems to sympathise with Anna’s ridiculous workload but then blames her for not keeping to family commitments. 

Becca wants Anna to talk to Becca’s step daughter Sammy (LJ Johnson) about a career in medicine.  It seems everyone values the status of becoming a doctor but no-one realises the way it will intrude on your life.  There are two powerful monologues from Anna with the responses she uses everyday, some of them to do with sexism, “No I’m not a nurse”, “I’m a doctor”, “Yes I’ll call a man doctor and you’ll be waiting another six hours.”  Some of it coping with people using the internet as the source of all medical wisdom.  Some of it apologising for the wait. 

I liked the use of hospital blinds by designer Andrew Edwards to show the compartments of Anna’s life and the way they can be opened and closed between scenes.  The lighting too from Prema Mehta is excellent.  The performances are all believable and Jasmine Blackborow shines in her portrayal of Anna with the complexity of her work load grinding her down.

What you can be sure of is that Super High Resolution will tell you more about life as a junior NHS doctor that Robert Icke’s play The Doctor and introduce you to an exciting new writing talent in Nathan Ellis.