Shelly Is Doing Great

Erin McCabe gets paid twenty-two dollars an hour to be sick for strangers, and her newest fake patient is doing far better than she is. At a medical school's clinical skills center in a converted baby superstore outside Cleveland, Erin lands a semester-long role as Shelly, a newly diabetic call-center supervisor who is taking charge of her health. Soon Erin is mall-walking under Shelly's name, feeding her own messy life into the script, and quietly collecting free medical advice for her stubborn mother from a sweating student who believes it is all pretend.