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

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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!!

The acting left something to be desired....

The surgical interns were "Television and Movie" stereotypical of interns, dispassionate, rude and clueless....

And when they did show a nurse she was another sterotype, old, "matronly" and stupid...

Let hope if we all write in this show will get better...

I would give my right arm to see a medical show that was accurate...

I just sent them an e-mail... Maybe they will listen if we all write.... :uhoh21:

Don't forget the comment by the teenaged patient implying nurses are clueless (when the intern was lost) or the idea that the nurse would page the doctor 911 because the patient was bored.

I bet the Center for Nursing Advocacy will be all over this one with a letter writing campaign. YOu can bet your booty I'll be participating in that one. HOw disgusting!

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I watched the show and the in the scene you're referring too the teenaged patient said that her nurse was less clueless than the Dr. :lol2: she also said she preferred the nurse.

I also was offended by the comments made about nurses. Right after the intern said "Did you just call me a nurse?'" , my hubby looked at me and said, "Holy S##t, did you hear what she just said?". So, thanks for the email link, I just sent them my thoughts on the episode. :angryfire

:angryfire

I never write networks either as I'm really not all that interested in TV, but I do watch some shows. Grey's Anatomy was such a huge disappointment, especially as it has replaced one of my favorite shows, Boston Legal. (Love James Spader ever since "Less Than Zero". Just love him)

I fired off an email to ABC also in which I wished the worst possible demise for Grey's Anatomy. I found the show to be irresponsible towards the majority of the health care team -- and that healthcare cannot function without nurses.

I must say I only caught the last 20 mins and I love it. After I get my BS in nursing I am going to medical school. It has always been a dream of mine. That show made me realize that everything I do and all the courses I take is for that goal. Just the thought that can be me...

Be careful what you wish for.

Specializes in NICU.

I did not watch the show but wrote them an email based on the disgusting things I've read here. Hopefully they will take them to heart.

I'm probably going to get burned for this, but I really liked the show. I work in healthcare currently, and I will granduate with My RN in 8 weeks. The show is about 9 interns and what they go through in becoming Doctors. I agree that the first show didn't depict nurses in the best light. The character Alex was a real jerk and treated the nurse with no respect, but that is his character. At the end he ended up looking like idiot, not the nurse he tried to make feel like an idiot. How do we know that the show won't end up depicting nurses in a good light. No one seems to want to see what will happen. This isn't a show about nurses, and if it was would you get angry if it depicted doctors in a bad light. I just don't understand the immediate uprise.

Specializes in L & D; Postpartum.

My DH and I also watched and at the end, he wanted to know what I thought. I think it's got possibilities. Alex is a jerk, and I took his attitude toward Dr. Grey and her response "did you call me a nurse" not so much as a putdown for nurses, but his stereotyping of all women as nurses. (He probably hates women and always has.) It's been established early and strongly that he's a jerk (probably in all aspects of his life) and haven't we all had to deal with docs just like him? (and not all of them male.) So I didn't see it as a negative toward nurses at all, but a good indication of just what giant jerk he is.

The show is not about nurses; it is about doctors so I can't too excited about the lack of nursing characters. Maybe they'll have some in the future.

The teenager was a spoiled brat and I've had teens put on their call light because they didn't get a call from a former boyfriend and when I pointed out that she was talking on the phone (and therefore the call couldn't get through) she asked me if we didnt' have call waiting? So that part fit right in too. Now granted, it wouldn't have been the intern/resident dealing with her directly like that, but again, it is a show about docs, not nurses.

My DH is a pilot and we have a lot of fun critiquing aviation and health-care shows and movies. We get a lot of preverted and smug pleasure in pointing out all the inaccuracies or fabrications or truth-stretching that is done. It's a show meant to be entertaining. The real truth might not be a seller, so they have to "alter" things a bit.

Specializes in MICU, CVICU.

Just sent them my opinion via email

I'm probably going to get burned for this, but I really liked the show. I work in healthcare currently, and I will granduate with My RN in 8 weeks. The show is about 9 interns and what they go through in becoming Doctors. I agree that the first show didn't depict nurses in the best light. The character Alex was a real jerk and treated the nurse with no respect, but that is his character. At the end he ended up looking like idiot, not the nurse he tried to make feel like an idiot. How do we know that the show won't end up depicting nurses in a good light. No one seems to want to see what will happen. This isn't a show about nurses, and if it was would you get angry if it depicted doctors in a bad light. I just don't understand the immediate uprise.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Belle. I don't think anyone will burn you for liking it.

I think the uprising is that there are so many shows out there painting MD's in a good light (ER, Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, House, Resident Life, Chicago Hope, etc., etc.)...

1. what can nurses watch and honestly enjoy?

2. what message does this send to non-medical people watching at home? that nurses are the peons..people with no education who are just there to call the doctor when something other than cleaning up the patient is needed to be done.

Note: Although I don't watch any of these shows anymore, I watched them all at some point (with the exception of "Grey's")..I think Scrubs is probably the least damaging to nurses.

JMHO.:clown:

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Belle. I don't think anyone will burn you for liking it.

I think the uprising is that there are so many shows out there painting MD's in a good light (ER, Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, House, Resident Life, Chicago Hope, etc., etc.)...

1. what can nurses watch and honestly enjoy?

2. what message does this send to non-medical people watching at home? that nurses are the peons..people with no education who are just there to call the doctor when something other than cleaning up the patient is needed to be done.

Note: Although I don't watch any of these shows anymore, I watched them all at some point (with the exception of "Grey's")..I think Scrubs is probably the least damaging to nurses.

JMHO.:clown:

Maybe with all our incredible minds out there we should be putting together a script for a show about Nursing students, or Rn's etc....

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