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Trust Me on tonight BBC 1 9.00pm

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CoolCarrie · 08/08/2017 16:50

Anyone else looking forward to this?
I like Jodie W since she was in Cranford, and this new 4 part series looks good, plus it has to be an improvement on the rubbish that was on last week in this slot.

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The80sweregreat · 09/08/2017 09:49

This was so cobbled together and far fetched.
The ID was mentioned in next week's trailer, but i thought you needed to present all that before you started a job. How will she get around that one? hospitals have HR the same as other places.
Agree that childcare for a job like that cant be easy -
she would have needed a bank account, as Blondes points out.
unless she said it was in her 'old name' , but risks getting found out then? i was only half watching some of it though , but i got the picture. I think most people would last a day trying this on before being arrested!

MozzchopsThirty · 09/08/2017 09:56

I didn't plan on watching this but actually started and then had to keep watching.
I liked it

Of course it's far fetched, most TV is, otherwise there would be no story, she'd have her DBS, all other checks etc and then be prosecuted for fraud - end of

gazzalw · 09/08/2017 10:05

Think you'd need an enhanced DBS check to be a doctor and need to present all sorts of evidence to HR before being taken on/starting the job - including valid passport.

gazzalw · 09/08/2017 10:06

Also a film with a similar premise years ago (90s) with one of the McGann brothers.

The80sweregreat · 09/08/2017 10:20

I suppose next week we will find out how she gets around all the checks.
Must have been a lot easier in the 1950s ( thinking of the film, catch me if you can , where he impersonates a doctor, amongst other professionals) as they didnt have to produce as much paperwork!

WhiteWinterWitch · 09/08/2017 10:52

I really enjoyed it, yes it is far fetched, I work in a hospital and the amount of clearance that any employee has to have before they're employed is extensive, for a dr it's even more so. But as a drama it's good, so much better than in the dark (well so far anyway!) my first thought was how easily she sorted her childcare, that for me was the most unbelievable bit 😊But I'm liking it, and I like Jodie Whitaker, she's very good at the nervy acting

Aridane · 09/08/2017 11:16

gazzalw - it was Paper Mask (wrong said Paper Tiger above). That film had me with sweaty palms.

User843022 · 09/08/2017 11:17

'I can't believe any nurse would put in a chest drain without training and she must've known they'd want ID'

Yes i mean I don't mind suspending belief for a good drama, but it was crazy that a nurse with such a conscience would go whistle blowing about neglect then next thing she's assaulting patients with chest drains and bungling procedures.

They should have left out the whistle blowing bit and stuck with she was a fraud after a bigger salary.

gazzalw · 09/08/2017 11:35

@Aridane thanks! Wasn't the McGann brother a porter in it - certainly not qualified if my distant memory serves me correctly?

I guess if she's a very experienced nurse with years as a sister she may have seen the procedure done enough to know what to do (sort of...).

Yes it was a bit of a leap from super diligent nurse to becoming an interloper 'doctor'.

PuppyMonkey · 09/08/2017 11:41

Yes Paul mCGann who also played DOCTOR WHO - coincidence maybe, I think not.

I couldn't get over the plot holes TBH - she had a wage slip but how did she open a bank account in that name? Also, the references etc and why the hell would the friend just dump all her certificates and CV in a bin in the first place (even if she was fed up and going abroad for a new life).

Friend will be back, I take it.

Wingedharpy · 09/08/2017 11:50

The fact that she has a conscience added to the tension IMHO.
I agree with PP. It's a drama not a documentary.
Impersonating a doctor has been known in real life.

User843022 · 09/08/2017 11:56

'I agree with PP. It's a drama not a documentary'
Well yes, but a nurse worrying about patients lying in soiled sheets one minute and then physically assaulting them the next is rather extreme even for a drama really. Still, I'm not losing sleep over it or anything

PuppyMonkey · 09/08/2017 12:00

It's not a documentary, no. But when you can't suspend your disbelief enough to enjoy the tale, it's not great writing imho.

viques · 09/08/2017 12:07

And she kept her old email, I think if you were starting a new identity you would get a new email and keep the old one as a back up , not have it as your primary pop up one.

As others have said if you start looking for the holes they get bigger, so I'm just going to go along for the ride and try to forget that poor man with the wonky ankle who didn't get his painkillers .

The80sweregreat · 09/08/2017 13:37

It should have been game over in the first half hour then!

Unless she has to commit murder in order to steal her friend's entire life or something really extreme.
I dont know any nurses or doctor's personally, but i can imagine that the friction must be awful at times. That poor man and his ankle though.

WipsGlitter · 09/08/2017 14:08

I assume you can get your pay deposited in any bank. It's none of your employers business if it's not your name.

Moodykat · 09/08/2017 14:34

Here it talks a bit about how it could happen - the guy that wrote it is a doctor so he probably knows what he is talking about... I haven't managed to watch it yet though!

The80sweregreat · 09/08/2017 14:40

To be fair, a lot of specialised nurses probably do know more than a newly qualified doctor. She already had a fair bit of training already working as a nurse and there is always the internet.
You would be found out though when the really big things needed doing!
Your luck would run out in the end.

dottypotter · 09/08/2017 15:04

yes the spoiler for next week shows she admits she dosent know what she is doing?

The80sweregreat · 09/08/2017 15:19

its not going to be a long drama then!

juneau · 09/08/2017 18:07

I quite liked it and I heard the writer interviewed on Radio 4 last week - he said that actually it happens quite a lot (where someone who is medical, but not a qualified doctor pretends to be one - often for long periods of time - without being rumbled).

The 'hospital' where Jodie works is actually Edinburgh University library. I spent many an hour there as a student most of them gazing out of the window.

topcat2014 · 09/08/2017 18:49

Clever how they managed to do the set though - quite convincing.

Agree with a PP, it is stressful. In my 'imaginary' other life I would have been a doctor - but the fact is I just about scrape through my first aid at work renewals!

The80sweregreat · 09/08/2017 18:57

Even if i were clever enough to be a Nurse or a doctor, i dont think i could handle the pressure, the night work, or the patients.
i dont know how they do it.

ScrumpyBetty · 09/08/2017 20:59

No, I've given up 40 mins in. Can't watch any more. Can't believe anyone would be so bloody stupid and put patients at risk this way. Not to mention the deception. How can she live with herself? She must know that if it all goes wrong (and it's bound to) then she will go to jail, and what will happen to her daughter then?

MozzchopsThirty · 09/08/2017 21:01

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