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Hello,

I know most healthcare people are not very fond of E.R., but I ws just wondering if anybody watched the last episode. The lady from "Sex and the Cityy" was a guest star. She played a stroke victim.

I really thought that it showed the difference between the nurse and the doctor during that episode. Even though the doctor spoke to the patient, it was the nurse who seemed to be able to "read" the stroke victim's mind, even though the pateint couldn't say a word.

Would anyone agree with that assesment? (Or do most of you think it was way off base?)

It does kinda give folks the impression that there is only one nurse in the whole ER and that the place is swarming with docs who do pretty much everything, including occasionally following their patients home to make sure they are taking their meds.

Now, in REAL LIFE, I had an ER doc call me on the phone the next day to explain some test results and tell me how important it was that I take the medication he was prescribing for me, which was rather shocking. But, if he had showed up on my door step, I'm pretty sure I would fainted dead away.

kirbi

LOL.... I agree.... also when they run out of the hospital and ALWAYS find them sitting on the railway platform or just outside the door. Doesn't anyone use a taxi or own a car in Chicago?? lol

I agree they need to check their union agreement.... way too many docs to nurse ratios...lol

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It's a show about doctors. Any nursing character that gets a main storyline has to be trying to become a doctor or is sleeping with a doctor.

Thank you! This has been my gripe about ER for ages. I still watch it on Thursday nights I'm not working - which would be twice this season. Years past, I had that night off partly because of the show, partly for a yoga class. But why did it take, oh, years to find out that Malik was an LPN?

My mind is addled with age though - wasn't Carol attempting to go to med school as well? She was never a fave character of mine, and her departure was met with a champagne toast. Should have never been resurrected from the pilot ep.

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Specializes in private duty/home health, med/surg.
Plus it's the funniest show on TV these days!

Any show that would name a dead stuffed dog "Rowdy" has my vote.

"Scrubs" is waaaayyy more entertaining than ER. :D

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But why did it take, oh, years to find out that Malik was an LPN?

My mind is addled with age though - wasn't Carol attempting to go to med school as well? She was never a fave character of mine, and her departure was met with a champagne toast. Should have never been resurrected from the pilot ep.

Malik is an LPN??? I had no idea.

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Yep.. Malik is an LPN... and a damn good one....

Remember when they were all the nurses were threatening to walk out & had a sick out or something.... and one of the doc's asked Malik why he didn't call in ... he said "I am an LPN, it doesn't get any cheaper than me" ... or somthing like that....

What about Neela Rascotra?? and Frank??? And why does Chuney have so few lines?? :angryfire

They are playing the first episode of "ER" on TNT right now.....It seems so, "retro"....

Do you guys know that Frank was in the very first episode??? And he was playing the same character, a Chicago police officer....

Personally if I had a hottie like Kovac running around my house, work would be the last thing on my mind...lol...Sam won't go med school...lol :p

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Well, they both needed Bachelor's degrees to get into medical school, so the time and money involved in getting that is a moot point. They probably just decided for her to major in nursing so she could start working right away after school, while he went right into med school, and then if four years when he'd be making (little, but some) money as a resident, she could quit nursing and start med school. The decision for her to go into nursing as opposed to something else was probably based on lots of things - she was obviously interested in the medical field, so why not major in something medical, the job market being good for nurses, the money nurses make, etc.

I'm just guessing, after all this is a TV show, but in my mind it actually makes sense.

I hadn't thought of that before...the show certainly didn't make it too clear. Still, do you think someone could just jump back into her last year of med school like she did? Did she have to get special permission? There's just so many questions left unanswered about that situation for me.

I 'm thinking WAAAAY too deeply about it I know. :)

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Specializes in M/S, OB, Ortho, ICU, Diabetes, QA/PI.
I used to love it when Dr. Carter was a surgical med student....Dr. Ross and Dr. Benton. also Nurse Hathaway. Lots of good stuff back then. Do you remember the episode where omar epps (med student) killed himself.....The patient goes into the ER and they page omar and the patients pager goes off and they realize its him.....Awesome episode....Dr. Benton was so tough on his med students. Now its to much like a soap opera set in the ER. Everyone doing everyone, dr's have breakdowns, killing patients, going overseas, and lada dada da..........Back then the story line was much different.....I guess thats why it was a top 5 show back then.......

Getting rid of dr. green was the end.....Ive probably seen 3 episodes since his departure, but almost all of them with him in it.

that episode with Omar Epps totally gave me chills!!!! I loved Dr Ross and how he struggled with being a "playa" and a good doc......

as for the portrayal of nurses, how come all the nurses contemplate going to med school but never NP school? do they have NP's at all on ER now? I remember back in the old days when there was that PA who was HIV pos from her ex-husband who was also a "playa"

I haven't watched it in so long I wouldn't know who was who - but that Luka sure is easy on the eyes........ :smokin:

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I was curious about the pt's abrupt "cure" after the procedure too. I mean even if they removed the clot, that area had been anoxic for what at least 6-8 HOURS!!! But all in all I think the episode was very well done, and I agree with whoever said it would be somewhat beneficial to show to nursing students and CNA's and even some of us full fledged nurses as a reminder to treat the pt.

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I've watched ER since the beginning and the reruns many times on TNT while doing housework in the morning. I think the nurses all had a larger role when Carol Hathaway was still on the show - Carol was a very strong willed nurse and smart. You hardly see a nurse now - except Sam and I don't like her for some reason. Can't quite figure it out . . .

I like Scrubs too.

steph

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Hey Shariff Atkins is supposed to be back on the show tonight???? Remember him? He was that yummy Dr Gallant.... The one that went to Iraq after he and Neela killed of that patient. :chuckle

Omar Epps is on that new show on Fox, "House"..

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Hey something just occurred to me, I missed several episodes of Er this season, wasn't the actress who played "Darlene" on Roseanne supposed to be on there? As a med student or something? Someone please fill me in...

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"Darlene" is a med student named "Jane"... she is a pistol...

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