The Locum Doctor covered for Doctor Patel at Rosamund Street Medical Centre in August 2009. After suffering from a slipped disc in his back earlier in the year, patient Joe McIntyre became addicted to painkillers and at times resorted to desperate measures to obtain medication after Doctor Patel had been slowly reducing the dosage, and after David Platt sabotaged the latest batch of illegally-obtained tablets, blackmailed Joe and threatened to tell his mother Gail about his addiction, Joe went to the Medical Centre in the hope of getting stronger medication.