Discovery Health Channel

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Nation's elite honors 13 "medical heroes;" heroic nurses'

invitations lost in mail?

July 8, 2004 -- This Thursday night's two-hour television

special, "Discovery Health Channel Medical Honors," hosted by

Regis Philbin and featuring Tommy Thompson and C. Everett Koop,

salutes 13 "medical heroes" for "bringing awareness to many

challenging health and medical issues of our time." Of the 13

honorees, there seem to be eight physicians, a biosciences

researcher, a non-profit leader, a political science professor, a

health system CEO, and an advertising executive. Not a single one

of the nation's 2.7 million nurses made the cut, but at least

nurses are represented--by the talented actress Yvette Freeman,

who plays nurse Haleh Adams on NBC's physician-centric "ER," and

who reportedly appears at the ceremony as a presenter. The show

airs at 8 pm ET/PT. more...