Holby City star Rosie Marcel has revealed that she stopped to help a bleeding stranger by the side of the road who was in dire need of assistance.
The actress, 45, who played surgeon Jac Naylor in the BBC soap, and has also starred in Casualty said she used her medical experience after 16 years on the show to help the poor man.
She took to Instagram on Tuesday to share the ordeal with fans after she found the man ‘bleeding very profusely from several large wounds’ as she headed out for the day with her daughter.
Kind: Holby City star Rosie Marcel has revealed that she stopped to help a bleeding stranger by the side of the road who was in dire need of assistance
She explained in the post that she was nervous about sharing the story on social media over fears she would be called out by people saying she ‘wasn’t a real doctor’.
She posted a snap of a man under a blanket at the side of the road and wrote in the caption: ‘Yesterday on my way to visit my parents in law we were driving along and saw this man walking covered in blood,’ Rosie detailed.
‘Nobody stopped. So I did,’ she added, before clarifying she ‘couldn’t go into detail’ about the incident being investigated by police.
‘He was bleeding very profusely from several large wounds on his face, head and arms,’ Rosie wrote under the snaps of the man.
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Hurt: The actress, 45, who played surgeon Jac Naylor in the BBC soap, and has also starred in Casualty said she used her medical experience after 16 years on the show to help the poor man
‘I flagged another car down to call the police and ambulance while I got my first aid kit from the boot and started applying pressure.
‘My amazing daughter sat in the car and FaceTimed with her dad as she was a little scared so that I could help him. She even gave up her blanket for him to stay warm.’
Reflecting on what she had learnt from appearing on Holby City, she added: ‘I debated posting this as obviously there will be plenty of people who will no doubt go ‘You’re not a real doctor’ -I know I’m not.
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By chance: She took to Instagram on Tuesday to share the ordeal with fans after she found the man ‘bleeding very profusely from several large wounds’ as they headed out for the day
‘But I do have more medical knowledge I guess than an average person? 16 years teaches you some things.’
Fans praised her in the comments with one saying: ‘Medical knowledge or not, what you did was incredible. You’re an earth angel.’
Another commented: ‘I applaud you Rosie, I often joke that the majority of my knowledge is from watching Holby City.’
‘You’re an angel,’ a third added, as a fourth said: ‘You are the BEST and well done your wee daughter.’
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Candid: She explained in the post that she was nervous about sharing the story on social media over fears she would be called out by people saying she ‘wasn’t a real doctor’
It comes after back in May Rosie revealed she had to be rushed to the emergency room at hospital to undergo surgery.
Taking to her Instagram she shared a series of photos from her hospital bed, including one of her lying there while connected to wires.
Rosie also took to the time to praise the NHS for their wonderful care of her, but didn’t reveal the cause of her hospital stint.
Captioning the snap, she wrote: ‘Ended up at the old emergency room the other night.
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Unwell: It comes after back in May Rosie revealed she had to be rushed to the emergency room at hospital to undergo surgery
‘Stoke mandeville is my new local ish hospital and they were brilliant. Ambulance crew were amazing too.
‘Had surgery the next day and home soon after that. Very very grateful to the nhs for looking after me and treating me quickly. #fentanyl #morphine all the good stuff!!! #nhs’.
Her followers rushed to the comments to give her their well wishes and point out the obvious irony in the star ending up in hospital.
One quipped: ‘Do you understand some of the terminology now after being the best cardiothoracic surgeon in the world previously?’
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Emergency: Taking to her Instagram she shared a series of photos from her hospital bed, including one of her lying there while connected to wires
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Grateful: Rosie also took to the time to praise the NHS for their wonderful care of her in her caption
Another chimed in to add: ‘Hope you get well soon. I bet you get some funny reactions when they see “Jac Naylor” rock up’.
Holby City fans were left devastated in March as the Casualty spin-off came to a dramatic conclusion in the final episode after 23 years on the BBC.
The medical drama finale focused on Rosie’s character Jac, after she awoke from a life-or-death operation led by Elliot Hope (Paul Bradley) and the team to remove her brain tumour.
Jac asked Adrian ‘Fletch’ Fletcher (Alex Walkinshaw) to write her a do-not-resuscitate order, despite Elliot telling the team that he wanted to do another operation.
Fletch said: ‘I just hate the thought of you giving up,’ as Jac replied: ‘Let me tell you about giving up. Letting this thing take control. Wipe out my mind. Leaving me delirious and doubly incontinent – that’s giving up.
‘I have never been clearer about anything in my life. Please do this one thing for me.’
Soon after, Jac suffered a stroke and was left braindead forcing Fletch to tell Elliot, Sacha Levy (Bob Barrett) and Max McGerry (Jo Martin) about the Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment (ADRT).
Fletch explained: ‘She said if anything like this happened – I think she knew that something like this was coming and she made up her mind.’
Elliot said: ‘It’s Jac’s decision. We may not like it but we have to respect it.’
It was then revealed that Jac had donated her organs to patients who needed them including a medical student, a full-time mother of four and Lexy Morrell, who received her heart.
In the closing moments, the voice of Jac could be heard in the background saying: ‘It took me a long time to find a place I belonged, somewhere to call home.
‘It wasn’t with my mother or the carers she dumped me on when she walked out of my life, it certainly wasn’t with any man, it was when I first walked into a theatre. I knew then one day one I had found my place in the world, somewhere I belonged.
‘This is what the NHS means to us, not a badge on a cabinet minister’s lapel, not a number down the side of a bus, it’s a nurse missing her break to sit with a lonely patient, a surgeon grinding out a 15-hour op, the sound of sirens coming to the rescue, Thursday night applause sounding out the rooftops, it’s all of us doing the best we can in impossible circumstances. It’s something to believe in, it’s home.’
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Emotional ending: The medical drama finale focused on Rosie’s character Jac, after she awoke from a life-or-death operation led by Elliot Hope (Paul Bradley) and the team to remove her brain tumour
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