Unveiling medical mysteries

A new four-part TV documentary series looks at the lives of doctors, Wang Kaihao reports.

What are doctors really like when you peel off the white gowns and masks? There is no script for The Doctors, a four-part documentary on Channel 4 of China Central Television that premiered on Monday, but reality is touching enough.

In the series created by Health News, a newspaper affiliated with the National Health Commission, the lens focuses on the work of medical practitioners from six hospitals in provincial capitals around China - Nanjing, Jiangsu province; Xi'an, Shaanxi province; Hangzhou, Zhejiang province; Zhengzhou, Henan province; Hefei, Anhui province; and Chengdu, Sichuan province.