A group of nurses are ditching their traditional healthcare jobs to work in a fake hospital where patients aren't there for regular medical treatments.
Tucked away on an unassuming business park in southwest Berlin, the clinic looks just like any other medical centre. But once inside, it soon becomes clear this is no ordinary practice.
Here, qualified nurses aren't treating the sick. Rather, they are performing highly realistic medical role play for paying clients.
At the centre of it all is 'Dr Eve', a former nurse who has swapped her life on hospital wards for the world of medical fetishism.
Her clinic, Fetischklinik Berlin, is uncannily realistic, and it comes complete with consulting rooms and dental chairs. Even its walls are lined with medical charts.
But it's behind closed doors that things are not as they seem.
Staff cater to a growing number of patients looking to blur the lines between medicine and fantasy, with several flying in from across Europe to experience the continent's first fetish clinic.
Dr Eve was working as a nurse when she spotted a gap in the market for something far more realistic than typical BDSM role play.
Dr Lana van Orten, 46, works as a part-time nurse at a hospital and spends the rest of her time working as a fetish doctor.
Dr Lana is among several doctors and nurses swapping their lives on hospital wards for the world of medical fetishism in Berlin's Fetish Clinic.
The medical practice in the German capital is Europe's first ever fetish clinic. It looks just like any other medical centre.
She soon realised her clients wanted authenticity, from hospital routines to the use of real-life medical equipment, and decided to open her first fetish clinic in the city of Dresden.
The success and unique nature of her practice led to the opening of her Berlin clinic, which opened last year.
It attracts international clientele who are willing to travel from places like Britain or France to receive their 'treatments'.
Sessions are designed to mirror real medical appointments and involve examinations using devices such as ECG monitors and ultrasound machines.
But what follows is determined by the patients.
Clients can request anything from dental procedures to far more invasive scenarios.
One of the clinic's practitioners, Dr Lana van Orten, 46, works as a part-time nurse at a hospital and spends the rest of her time working as a fetish doctor.
Although she enjoys her job as a nurse and likes helping people, she says the world of medical role play is her real 'passion.'
On her profile, she offers a range of treatments, including catheterisation and prostate exams. Other therapies include saline infusions.
Promising to cater each session to their needs, she tells her prospective clients that she can make their 'dreams and desires come true.'
Speaking to the Daily Mail, she explains that most of her clients want 'normal clinical procedures like ECGs, ultrasounds, blood samples...but also a lot of anal examinations, anemas, coloscopy, urethral catheter or dilation.'
'And it comes together most of the time with a role play, where I have to be the strict doctor.'
But Dr Lana makes one thing clear: 'I don't offer sex...I just offer the treatments and examinations.'
Due to her medical training, Dr Lana says she can administer these 'therapies', and it helps her get into her role.
'I don't think I became a nurse because of my medical fetish,' she says,'but it helps me, of course,because I can play with that.
'My patients can see that I'm a nurse and that I have experience,and they feel safe that I know what I'm doing.'
'I like how much fantasy people have in their minds and what they want to be done to them.'
Yet, there are also some rules for Dr Lana's sessions. She remains fully clothed and is not to be touched by patients.
She also doesn't administer any medication other than vitamins and saline solutions.
Dr Lana says her patients come from 'all over the world' to be treated by doctors at the clinic, and are all between the ages of around 20 and 85.
They are from 'all walks of life,' she says, with around 98 per cent being men and the other two per cent being women or couples.
'There's a good mix,' she notes.
Dr Lana also has a lineup of regular clients who travel long distances regularly to enjoy a session with her.
'It's exciting and interesting and wonderful,' she says.'Many are coming back.'
But Dr Lana is not the only staff member at the clinic with a medical background.
In fact, she estimates that around half of her colleagues are doctors or nurses.
'I think they like these two worlds of treating people in hospitals and in the world of BDSM.'
Dr Jonathan Noir has also ditched his career in healthcare for the world of medical role play and joined the fetish clinic.
Dr Jonathan's patients come from all over the world, including Slovakia, the US and Russia.
'They like that they have the techniques,and I think they like putting those worlds together to create a good session for their patients.'
There could also be a financial aspect to registered doctors and nurses taking on careers in the world of medical role play, Dr Lana says.
Sessions at the clinic start at around 250 Euros an hour, but patients often choose long sessions that can last all night.
Dr Lana says she thinks most of her patients have medical fetishes from having endured traumatic medical experiences.
At the clinic, they can re-enact those experiences in a safe and controlled way.
'Many people have had bad experiences in their childhood,and they have had to receive medical treatment...and for some,it might have been traumatic,and some of them find that they are now inclined to hospitals.'
Dr Lana herself says she was inclined to medical role play from her youth and believes it stems from a hospital admission she had when she was seven years old.
'It felt extremely pleasant and safe. And I guess because of that, the roots have been planted for my later own clinic fetish that I have.'
She also said she thinks she has what she calls 'helping syndrome,' and has always felt pleasure from helping others.
'I just want to help people and assist them and be there for them. I like to help people to feel better.
'It gives me happiness to help them. I like to give them the feeling of safety and that I'm there for them,'
Despite her fetish and career as a fetish doctor, she did not fully discover her passion for role play until 2014, after ending a long-term relationship.
And in 2024, she came across the Fetish Clinic in Berlin after attending an open evening.
'I saw this, original clinical environment, and that is what I love so much, because it's so authentic.'
And she wants to share that passion with her patients.
'This is unique; it's an authentic clinic,and I am very passionate.The most important part is trust and safety.
'People feel safe telling me their deepest fantasies...people can feel that it's my own passion,my own fetish and that I absolutely love what I do.I think people can feel that.'