Some patients can try your patience

Hannah Stephenson talks to TV doctor Rosemary Leonard about some demanding — as well as downright bizarre — cases during her 25 years on the front line as a GP.

THERE’S not much that surprises BBC Breakfast’s resident doctor Rosemary Leonard these days.

During her time as a GP, she’s delivered a baby to an unsuspecting teenage mother in her surgery, tackled an octogenarian nymphomaniac and treated an eco-protester with appendicitis.