Decision time for Ruth?

This week Ruth questions if she'll ever be able to practice medicine again... When research student Sally Bridges is admitted to the psychiatric ward after attacking a fellow student at the university, senior charge nurse Charlie has a serious headache on his hands. Paranoid Sally believes the world is out to get her, and her mum Donna agrees. Sally's mum Donna (Goodnight Sweetheart star Michelle Holmes) arrives at the ward with all guns blazing. She's adamant her daughter's fears of being followed are legitimate as she's doing groundbreaking research, attracting attention from big corporations. Convinced her daughter isn't crazy, Donna has a go at Charlie and then tries to break Sally out! Heavily sedated Sally collapses before they can escape unnoticed, so Donna leaves her at the hospital and goes in search of evidence to prove her daughter isn't delusional. But what she finds among Sally's research notes shocks her - page after page of paranoid scribbling. Meanwhile Ruth, who is being treated for Bipolar at the same ward, finds Sally collapsed in a cubicle. Unable to get help Ruth's medical instincts kick in. She examines Sally and makes a brilliant diagnosis - Sally isn't mentally ill, she's got Lyme Disease! Will this encounter help Ruth accept being Bipolar doesn't mean she can't practice medicine?

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.