Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

[miya]

Oh my god! I haven't posted in a long time, but I just had to post again. I'm watching the premier of Grey's Anatomy -- any of you see this?? (new show on ABC)

The Doctor, after being questioned by a nurse says, "I'm just a resident, but you take 4 years of medical school, and let me know if I'm right." (Did I quote it right?)

Then, as he walks away he says, "I hate nurses."

Then, he walks up to a female resident and mistakenly calls her a nurse and she responds, with anger and indignation, "Did you just call me a nurse?" As though it were a racial slur!

I mean, nurses have historically been marginalized in many mass media outlets, but this is amazing!!

[kea6783]

ok, I think I've seen this commercial (only) ONCE!!

But, if it's what it sounds like, at the end when the nurses are practically glowing, I think they should splatter some fake blood across their scrubs, maybe give them some baggy eyes.. for realism.

What do you think!? Feel free to add!

[nervousnurse, ASN]

Yea, the things that intern said on the premiere of "Grey's Anatomy" made me mad, too........HOWEVER, wasn't it great when it turned out the nurse was CORRECT and the doctor got reprimanded??? :chuckle That character is such a JERK!

I liked the story line with the scrub nurse, and I agree that it was sad how Merideth's mom remembered her immediately, but not her own daughter and husband! I am so disappointed with Sandra Oh's character and the way she treats the patients so coldly and bluntly...especially with the organ donation.....ugh!

Did anyone notice on last Sunday's episode, when one of the interns invited some NURSES to the party, and Sandra Oh said "oh no....you invited NURSES?"....... :uhoh21:

[adelle]

Yea, the things that intern said on the premiere of "Grey's Anatomy" made me mad, too........HOWEVER, wasn't it great when it turned out the nurse was CORRECT and the doctor got reprimanded??? :chuckle That character is such a JERK!

I liked the story line with the scrub nurse, and I agree that it was sad how Merideth's mom remembered her immediately, but not her own daughter and husband! I am so disappointed with Sandra Oh's character and the way she treats the patients so coldly and bluntly...especially with the organ donation.....ugh!

Did anyone notice on last Sunday's episode, when one of the interns invited some NURSES to the party, and Sandra Oh said "oh no....you invited NURSES?"....... :uhoh21:

I was wondering when someone was going to jump on that!

[estrogen]

What is wrong with this show??? Is the writing really so pittyfull as it seems or is there some hidden agenda and at the end of the season some big twist happens and theclever truth will be revealed?

What is their problem? "Oh no, you invited NURSES???" There was so much disgust in her tone... Do nurses suddenly have koodies or what?

And what the heck was that thing with the heart? I'm by no means a cardiac or surgical nurse, just plane ole med-surg, but she "popped a glove as she was holding the heart and as a result might have nicked it"?? ... I would have imagined the result of a "popped glove" (how do you pop a glove while you have it allready on, anyway?) and the direct contact of her hand with the heart to be pericarditis perhaps, but a "ruptured ventricle"??? I don't know, but maybe I'm just not educated enough...

Oh and lastly, Sandra Oh and the handsome surgeon looked at each other a few times during the day and then at the end of the shift they end up having "physical negotiations" in the locker room??? That's just plain tacky... No depth of character, no storyline leading up to it...

Yeah, it's just pi$$ poor wiriting...

[Gompers, BSN, RN]

What is their problem? "Oh no, you invited NURSES???" There was so much disgust in her tone... Do nuses suddenly have koodies or what?

Do you work as a nurse in a teaching hospital? Because I do, and if the surgical residents were having a party and someone invited US, I can promise you that they'd all say the same thing. No, we don't have cooties, but we're definitely not peers either!

[estrogen]

Do you work as a nurse in a teaching hospital? Because I do, and if the surgical residents were having a party and someone invited US, I can promise you that they'd all say the same thing. No, we don't have cooties, but we're definitely not peers either!

No, I'm not in a teaching hospital... fortunately I guess

[Gompers, BSN, RN]

No, I'm not in a teaching hospital... fortunately I guess

Well, I do love working in a teaching hospital, don't get me wrong. But just saying that unless you work side-by-side with residents (especially SURGICAL residents as they're always the most cocky) you don't understand that this is really what they're like. I personally don't believe the show is knocking nurses - it's showing how surgical residents knock them, even though the nurses are usually RIGHT. Happens quite often where I work.

[tridil2000, MSN, RN]

Do you work as a nurse in a teaching hospital? Because I do, and if the surgical residents were having a party and someone invited US, I can promise you that they'd all say the same thing. No, we don't have cooties, but we're definitely not peers either!

i work in an er at a teaching hospital. we're like one big family. everyone is invited to each other's functions, from docs, nurses to techs!

[baby&mommynurse]

Well, I do love working in a teaching hospital, don't get me wrong. But just saying that unless you work side-by-side with residents (especially SURGICAL residents as they're always the most cocky) you don't understand that this is really what they're like. I personally don't believe the show is knocking nurses - it's showing how surgical residents knock them, even though the nurses are usually RIGHT. Happens quite often where I work.

I agree with you Gompers. From the beginning, I never really believed the show was knocking nurses... the show IS about residents not nurses. However, I did put my into the producers about how nurses were being perceived as a result. I also work at a teaching hospital and I see and work with residents all the time. Most of them are super nice and respect the nurses... probably because their attending doc taught them to do so! But there are a few that are really cocky and we just put them in their place! :chuckle

[mattsmom81]

Sooo..some of the nurses here can see the message that the student docs are arrogant and frequently wrong. My question is: Is the general public getting that message...or are they seeing/hearing 'nurses are stupid...beneath doctors...not to be taken seriously...unimportant' etc. THAT is what concerns me.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

Do nurses suddenly have koodies or what?

Well, so much for our little koodie secret.

[estrogen]

Sooo..some of the nurses here can see the message that the student docs are arrogant and frequently wrong. My question is: Is the general public getting that message...or are they seeing/hearing 'nurses are stupid...beneath doctors...not to be taken seriously...unimportant' etc. THAT is what concerns me.

I don't think the general public is getting the message, that residents a cocky and they'rewrongfully (stupidly) putting down nurses, at all... To the contrary, residents on this show are all mighty (after all they're doing everyones job, including the nurses, social worker's, etc.) and they are "sooohoooohoooo cute and cooooool" and above everyone else, especially nurses! And if us nurses, who don't work with cocky resindents don't get it from the show, I don't think the general public does either... I just keep thinking of the 18, 19 y.o. girl/boy, that is concidering what they want to do in life and thought of going to nursing school... and then they see this...