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

live4today, RN · Apr 19, 2005

I have read through almost all of the postings regarding Gray's Anatomy and I have to say I'm amazed at ya'll flying off the handle like this! This show is about surgical interns not nurses! And the remark in the first episode? For ya'll who work in a place that requires scrubs for anyone giving direct patient care, how many of you have become upset if you're mistaken for an LPN, CNA or respiratory therapist? How about when a patient assumes a male nurse or respiratory therapist is a doctor? It's the pecking order and it is what it is. As for respect, that doesn't automatically come with whatever initials follow your name, respect is earned with your practice. Like the retired scrub nurse in the episode that aired on 4/17, she earned her respect and admiration. Personally I love this show but then after almost 30 years in nursing I no longer have a chip on my shoulder. Why don't ya'll give this show a chance before you flame ABC?

Okay...before I say what I've been wanting to say about the show....remember the scripture "he/she who has never sinned...throw the first stone"

Okay...now that I have put on my shield of protection with the Holy Scriptures :chair:................... i like the show, too, Sea Island Yank! :behindpc:

When I first saw this thread weeks ago, I had no idea it was about a t.v. show because I had never heard of the show before. Then, three shows ago, I happened to be flicking the channel, and stumbled across the show getting ready to air, so I watched it. At the end of the show, I was practically in tears (the show was a sad show that day). I was hooked! Since that time, I've seen two other shows, one being the last show where the nurse died. I cried again...... :crying2:

I'm not thinking about nurses when I watch the show. It's about interns.........the docs in diapers we (nurses) burp to reality. :rotfl:

The show also gets to me because I've always wanted to become a surgeon from the age of eight. Then, I let men enter my life............well........you know.......the rest is junk.

Soooooooo.....carry on luveys. :sofahider

allnurses Guide · Apr 19, 2005

I agree. The second time I watched the show was last Sunday night, and they actually had a veteran nurse as a patient with pancreatic cancer, and she was well recognized, well known, and very well respected by the medical staff. One of the veteran docs who no longer practices, actually said she was the best nurse she had ever worked with. The down side though, was they admitted her to die there. How very sad.

My impression is that she wanted to die there. It was her wish. And they took up a bed to accomodate her.

steph

FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I · Apr 19, 2005

My impression is that she wanted to die there. It was her wish. And they took up a bed to accomodate her.
steph

You may be right Steph, but I didn't get it that way due to what the interns were saying. One told the others a couple times that the staff had no intention of helping her. They just brought her here to die. Whichever way it was meant, the best part was how the docs and the nursing staff all respected her.

RNKITTY04 · Apr 20, 2005

Ok I just dont get the way they all have to be running around in their panties all the time and the pouty lip thing was kinda making me nausous by the end of the show. I dont see myself watching it again

snowfreeze, BSN, RN · Apr 20, 2005

Interns are so unfinished humans. They went to school for too many years and have no life. We as nurses are expected to nurture them to become acceptable doctors. This training if I remember correctly includes flushing the dirty utility room hopper multiple times during the night next to their sleeping room after they insulted the nursing staff. And making sure they are awake when the doc they are working with makes rounds. If they appologize in the AM when you give them coffee and report prior to the rounds then their butt is saved. If they still have an attitude, well...grovel sweet idiot.

kea6783 · Apr 20, 2005

What a bunch of @##^&$@$@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......*ahem.....meanies........ :angryfire :angryfire
I am sooooooo writing too!!!!!!

maybe we should snail mail, you know what they say, a letters worth 10 calls or 50 emails..

z's playa · Apr 20, 2005

maybe we should snail mail, you know what they say, a letters worth 10 calls or 50 emails..

Yeah but then we'd have to buy stamps .... :chuckle

Z

kea6783 · Apr 20, 2005

Yeah but then we'd have to buy stamps .... :chuckle
Z

haha, right you are!

bellcollector · Apr 20, 2005

Snowfreeze just gotta say I LOVED your post. Wish I had been there in those days. Gomper wonderful post I agree with Fran, Steph and others. I think the show is good and improving with the neg nurse thing maybe/hopefully in part due to the letter writing campaign. We definately have to be proactive for our own profession.

The problem as I see it isn't even the media. In my meely six yrs as a nurse my experience has been more negative with fellow nurses than docs or interns. Another board (Not this ONE) is famous for eating their young I have been bitten too many times to count on that board and in RL by fellow nurses. Only been bitten once by a doc. Simply told him to call back when he had a cup of Joe and could speak to me with some respect I would in the mean time try to keep his pt alive I then hung up didn't even take 15sec for him to page me back (speaking with respect). My fellow nurses only bite harder. Sorry just the facts as I see them. Carry on

FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I · Apr 20, 2005

Ok I just dont get the way they all have to be running around in their panties all the time and the pouty lip thing was kinda making me nausous by the end of the show. I dont see myself watching it again

True, but I sure loved the way that gal put the guys in their places. She stopped them dead in their tracks. Tickled me pink.

bhamlpn · Apr 21, 2005

uuggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! I missed the first few episodes and now after hearing that, I will have to miss the rest. Does it not take the medical frame-of-mind to get into a show like that in the first place??? What stupid-*** producer/writer actually read the script before letting it be acted out????? Not only is this completely degrading regardless of it being television, but ABC just lost a plethora of viewers. Anyway, I'm hooked on the pleasurable Nip/Tuck(FX); it has my number one (and not for the faint-hearted). CHao!!

hock1 · Apr 21, 2005

I refused to watch the show because of the commercials and briefly caught a scene while channel surfing...first the line "you're walking around me half naked". What, is his Dick so powerful he can't concentrate on medicine around breasts? Second the female dr ripping her clothes off tearfully exclaiming "What, how can anybody think with these (I guess her boobs)". Thirdly the same female dr tearfully exclaiming how she doesn't have any debt while the male dr owes hundreds of thousands of $. I guess because she is soooo sexy she has to fight to show her mental intelligence BY RIPPING OFF HER CLOTHES. Yeah that will show them. I hate shows that always show the woman welling up with tears or becoming sexually aggressive when her ability is in question. This show reminds me of what teen boys think medical school is all about...hot sexed up female doctors who are not shy about doing it. I think this show hurts doctors more than nurses actually. I can just imagine the next episode. Two sexy doctors getting it on just before and emergency surgery where they valiantly save a life. The show will end with them in bed again at the end.