One thing they get wrong in films or TV dramas about your job

[KarlWrenbury]

In schools. That boyfriends (invariably ) could just turn up in classes
See. Bruce almighty. Yesterday. Cheaters.

That counsellors note down what you are saying.

What goes on behind closed doors… 😁

psychologists and psychotherapists 1. have affairs with their clients, 2. manipulate them for nefarious purposes, 3. earn a fortune.

That children in need of diagnosis or mental health support get in quickly. My LA takes 2 years minimum to diagnosis ASD and me Ts health services are crap.

UKVI/Border Force. Nothing is ever remotely as portrayed. Mind you, lots of the media and some of the threads on here about immigration are full of absolute rubbish as well.

Social workers tend to arrived to take children away - that’s apparently it 😕

My job was depcted on Holby City the A and E Occupational Therapist was massaging someone's leg in all my years working in hospitals did I ever massage anything.

That police protection officers wander round the Government building and enter meetings with the principal that they're protecting. Bodyguard

That unconscious patients lie on their back for days on end, often without even being ventliated. Sometimes not even on oxygen. And they don't have one- to- one nursing.

That patients in "asystole" (flat-line) cardiac arrest need a defibrillator.

That medical students can prescribe drugs.

Weddings - something highly dramatic always happens before/during/after.

couples don’t just get married and have a lovely time with family and friends.

Children's Social Services..When Miss Honey whips out the adoption papers in Matilda.

That anyone can just use someone else's airline ticket last minute if they can't make it. Not without phoning the airline and paying a sometimes hefty name change fee you can't mate

Everyone knows the "sexy secretary" stereotype, right?

I'm a Legal PA. The reality is nothing like that!

And Charlie looks frailer than 90% of the patients.

how realistic is it to have a 74 year Nurse working long shifts in an ED?

I am a massage therapist 🤔we don’t get lots of sexy gorgeous men who we fall in love with we don’t flirt with our clients

That always annoyed me! Even as a nurse, there's a equipment I use often that our doctors don't know how to operate (I got given 2 'faulty' thermometers by a doctor the other day, who was actually just pressing the wrong button). The idea of someone who hasn't trained for years in that specific area, doing imaging or running their own lab tests, is just ridiculous.
I still love House though and would watch it over and over, despite this.

Teacher

That I can just slam a pupil's woeful effort on a homework/ test down on their desk with a huge big F grade on it, no helpful comment on how to improve (for the pupil to ignore) and I can just give the pupil a withering glance and maybe a sarky comment.

Reality- I'd be the one in trouble for making an inaccessible test. Or for not preparing the pupils for it. We want all high grades please! To avoid "intervention". As for withering glance and comment, well not if I don't want the parents phoning up to complain.

I reckon those shows must be written by people my age who went to school in the 80s as that's exactly what I remember happening! A few teachers had the authority to keep a class sat there until they told them to go but most didn't and students did just walk out when the bell went.

Nurses and doctors defibrillating asystole (flatline). Asystole and PEA are unshockable Rhythms and shouldn’t be defibrillated. They Very rarely get this right in tv and films always quite impressed when they do!

Although no longer. That doctors do EVERYTHING!

scientist - on TV, you get the results of your research immediately (rather than spending 2 months tearing your hair out over data analysis). On TV, there are no ethics committees or paperwork that constrain what research you can do, whether it is giving people an untested drug or releasing alien lifeforms. and on TV, the computer program or fancy equipment just works the first time, even for visitors from the future or people who have no idea what they are doing.

Children's social care - character on tv calls social services and a social worker knocks on the door 5 minutes later!!
characters apply to foster on tv and get approved within 2 episodes!!
Social workers are shown as taking children and being the 'bad guys' they dont show early help assessments, family support workers etc.. and the hard work that goes into keeping families safe

That nannies are psychos, nope, that's often the parents we work for.

Another teaching one. All lessons end with the bell sounding while the teacher is in mid-flow, the kids run out without being dismissed and the teacher bellows the homework over the din.

Utterly shit lack of planning. TBF, I've seen this in reality a few times when I'm waiting to come into a classroom, but it's always the same person.

Have you seen Ozarks?!
I'm sure the main guy is an accountant!