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Aug 30, 2017 · Trust Me made an eponymous plea to the audience. Its implausible premise – that a nurse might steal a doctor’s identity and land a job in A&E – called for your credulity. Around the broadcast of the drama's first episode on BBC One, sundry articles sprang up in the media offering supportive evidence that just such scenarios often come to pass for real.
Aug 29, 2017 · By the time Andy tries to sate our need for meaning by concluding that ‘life and death is all that matters’, it’s simply not enough. It’s also simply not true. People and honesty also matter, just not in Trust Me. At least not when it needs to ignore them. Trust Me has always wanted to have its cake and eat it. To play with heightened ...
Trust Me, then, puts McCain, and us, into what is a genuinely intriguing and frightening scenario, like one of those nightmares where you’re in terrible danger but simply cannot speak or move.
Aug 8, 2017 · Jodie Whittaker delivers an emotional performance in BBC drama Trust Me (Photo: BBC) In her first role since being announced as the 13th Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker plays a nurse – pretending to ...
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A young man named Levon Mkhitariancame to the UK from the former Soviet State of Georgia in 2007. A few years later he started training to work as a locum doctor – that is, a doctor who can step in as a substitute when full-time staff are unavailable. Mkhitarian dropped out of his foundation year. Still, that didn't stop him: over the next few year...
Considering how unconvincing the court found Christian Eberhard's forgeries, it's hard to understand how he was allowed to operate 190 times – but he was. Eberhard duped the German health service by claiming to have qualified at the University of Oxford, even though he wrote his own degree certificate in a fountain pen. He also spelt doctor with a ...
When Nigerian-born doctor Florence Olayekept failing a basic English test required to work in the NHS, she instead adopted a second identity – Florence Gberevbie. Desperate to work as a doctor in the UK, she used a fake passport with a different birth date and false documents from the Home Office to secure a job in a hospital. Olaye was able to spe...
This one is an old story and comes from America, but it's too interesting to leave out. Ferdinand Waldo Demaramay have died in 1982, but he lives on in the Tony Curtis movie The Great Impostor. He was a serial liar who posed as everything from a civil engineer to a Benedictine monk. Worryingly, Demara was able to steal the identity of a doctor he'd...
Oluwadamilola Opemuyi managed to treat 91 patientsbefore she was found out. Having completed her degree in music, technology and public relations, Opemuyi set her heart on working in mental health – but she was frustrated to be told she'd first have to complete five years in medical school. Instead she took a shortcut and stole the identity of a fu...
The truth behind Abdul Pirzada's medical background is a little unclear, but it certainly wasn't related to what was on his CV. Pirzada came to the UK as an asylum seeker and spent seven years working as a practice nurse in Birmingham, and then as a locum CP. This was all based on his "glittering medical career". But contrary to what his CV said, h...
Conrad De Souza was caught and jailed in 2011 after he fraudulently claimed to be a doctor – and after he got out of jail, he did it again. The conman had enrolled at the University of London medical school in 1980 but dropped out. Years later he was employed by Lewisham Primary Care Trust and posed as a doctor, but in 2011 he was convicted for pre...
This is a very old example, but it does show how far a conman can go. Leander Tomarkinwas born in 1895 in Switzerland. Though he had a terrible academic record and had dropped out of college, he claimed to have a doctorate in medicine and to have invented a miracle medicine – Antimicrobum tomarkin – to cure everything from tuberculosis to malaria. ...
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Trust Me is a British anthology medical drama that premiered on BBC One. The four-part first series aired in August 2017, and was written by Dan Sefton. In February 2018, the programme was renewed for a second series, which premiered on 16 April 2019. The series was cancelled in June 2019. The protagonist of the first series is a hardworking ...
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Written by Dan Sefton, a (real) doctor, the show has cherry-picked its stars from The Inbetweeners, The Gold and Downton Abbey, to name just a few. Here's everything you need to know about the ...
