Director of hit French TV medical drama dons scrubs to fight virus

Thomas Lilti, the director of hit French medical drama Hippocrate (Oleg Cetinic/AP)

The director of the hit French TV medical drama Hippocrate, a former doctor himself, was so moved by the urgency of the coronavirus pandemic that he put his scrubs back on.

Dr Thomas Lilti ended up back working at a French hospital when the filming of his second season was suspended by France’s coronavirus lockdown last year.