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!!
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.
Actually the female doc who ripped off her clothes did so to prove a point which concerned the fact that the Ahole doc we all love...posted up the pinup layout she did for some lingerie company to get through med school and was trying to humiliate her. They were all standing around drooling and i guess she got sick of their immaturity.To prove a point she totally confronted their obsession head on. :) whatever it takes..... :chuckle
I've never seen this program, and really don't care for these "soap opera" type shows. The producers and writers just want all the controversy, because that's what keeps people coming back for more. Look at how many people have commented on this thread, and I have read a majority of them. I agree that they should create something more true to life, and quit trying to sex up everything. Most story lines are about the same garbage, sex, cheating, greed, any thing negative and controversial. How many people are really like that?
Anyway, I really just wanted to know if anyone ever watches Discovery Health? I watch "Paramedics", "Trauma, Life in the ER", The Critical Hour, etc. I rarely watch anything else, because I'm tired of what Hollywood pushes on us. The shows on DH are true to life shows, with real DRs, Nurses and Paramedics. Few act arrogantly, the majority are just good people doing their job. The terminology and situations (life and death) are more accurate and depict what I believe we will see and be a part of, rather than the Hollywood versions. I hope that by watching these shows I will become more aware of how it truely is, and maybe better prepare me for the real world. :)
Actually the female doc who ripped off her clothes did so to prove a point which concerned the fact that the Ahole doc we all love...posted up the pinup layout she did for some lingerie company to get through med school and was trying to humiliate her. They were all standing around drooling and i guess she got sick of their immaturity.To prove a point she totally confronted their obsession head on. :) whatever it takes..... :chuckle
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That was the part I found channel surfing. My case exactly though. She had to expose herself, while tearful. Why couldn't they have showed her saying, "yeah, so, what's the problem" . I mean for crying out loud. It's not like she was a model on an animal sex site! She then could have explained how she's debt free and maybe they should have posed too. Better yet how about she worked really hard at a non-SEX portrayed job? Whatever though. TV without sex? They'd loose market value.
I've never seen this program, and really don't care for these "soap opera" type shows. The producers and writers just want all the controversy, because that's what keeps people coming back for more. Look at how many people have commented on this thread, and I have read a majority of them. I agree that they should create something more true to life, and quit trying to sex up everything. Most story lines are about the same garbage, sex, cheating, greed, any thing negative and controversial. How many people are really like that?
Anyway, I really just wanted to know if anyone ever watches Discovery Health? I watch "Paramedics", "Trauma, Life in the ER", The Critical Hour, etc. I rarely watch anything else, because I'm tired of what Hollywood pushes on us. The shows on DH are true to life shows, with real DRs, Nurses and Paramedics. Few act arrogantly, the majority are just good people doing their job. The terminology and situations (life and death) are more accurate and depict what I believe we will see and be a part of, rather than the Hollywood versions. I hope that by watching these shows I will become more aware of how it truely is, and maybe better prepare me for the real world. :)
I've never seen this program, and really don't care for these "soap opera" type shows. The producers and writers just want all the controversy, because that's what keeps people coming back for more. Look at how many people have commented on this thread, and I have read a majority of them. I agree that they should create something more true to life, and quit trying to sex up everything. Most story lines are about the same garbage, sex, cheating, greed, any thing negative and controversial. How many people are really like that?
Anyway, I really just wanted to know if anyone ever watches Discovery Health? I watch "Paramedics", "Trauma, Life in the ER", The Critical Hour, etc. I rarely watch anything else, because I'm tired of what Hollywood pushes on us. The shows on DH are true to life shows, with real DRs, Nurses and Paramedics. Few act arrogantly, the majority are just good people doing their job. The terminology and situations (life and death) are more accurate and depict what I believe we will see and be a part of, rather than the Hollywood versions. I hope that by watching these shows I will become more aware of how it truely is, and maybe better prepare me for the real world. :)
i watch Discovery health when i have the chance ( avoiding A&P and studying for other classes.) I love the meidcal mysteries and the critical hour.
Okay, WOW, I had a totally different view of the show.
I saw it as a group of VERY arrogant interns who think they're god's gift to medicine - and watched as almost all of them got torn apart on their very first shift. They start out all competitive, each wanting to be the "best" that day so they can be the first to do a procedure in the OR...and by the end of the show, they all admit that they have no CLUE what they're doing (I loved that scene).
The three comments I saw that were nursing-related, and interpreted as slams by nurses here, had different meaning here to me.
1. The teenager talking about the nurse knowing more than the first-year resident - she's a bratty kid who KNOWS that the one way to hurt a doctor is to say a nurse is better. That's ALL I took from her comment - just wanted to annoy the doc, not put down nurses.
2. The resident who called Meredith a nurse - like someone else posted, he's obviously an arrogant sexist pig who assumes that all women are nurses. He's like a dramatic version of "The Todd" from Scrubs. Whether he assumes all women or nurses or believes that they SHOULD be nurses, either way it shows him in a crappy light. If I remember correctly, he did know she was a doctor, so calling her a nurse was his way of pissing her off. He was no more mature than the teenaged girl. Don't forget, this was the first episode of a heavily-casted show, so they really have to go overboard to show us what each character is about.
3. The best part, to me, was when the arrogant sexist resident was an idiot about the pneumonia. The nurse KNEW it wasn't pneumonia, and he totally slammed her with that comment about him going to medical school, so he knows all the answers basically. Of course, he turned out WRONG, the nurse was right, and he ended up looking like a complete idiot. Even though you can tell the nurse KNEW what was wrong, they had to give the glory to Meredith, because of course she's the "special" doctor of this show, the perfect one.
Overall, I really liked the show because it showed what residents are actually like that first year - arrogant, yet clueless. And most importantly - dangerous.
I work in a teaching hospital, maybe that's what I liked it?
I am in total agreement with you! In the long term the nurse ended up being viewed in the right light VS the "arrogant resident." I viewed this show as something not only for residents and nurses but for families and patients to relate to.
I really liked how, after watching the main character's ex-surgeon mother be completely confused (early-onset Altziemher's) for the past three episodes...the ONE thing that brought her back to reality was the mention of her long-time scrub nurse's name. She just lit up as she said what a great nurse she had been. For those who didn't watch the show, the scrub nurse had advanced pancreatic cancer and had basically been admitted to the hospital to die. She had been there forever and it was like her home, and it's where she chose to spend her last days. She was very well respected.
Yes gomper you are right. She was well respected by all of the hospital. It seemed like she couldn't go ten feet with out meeting someone she knew. The think I found kind of sad though, and you could tell the character Miranda Grey did as well, was when she told her mom about the scrub nurse. The mothers eyes did light up and she knew exactly who she was and what she did. I understand that she has alzhiemers but still that has to sting a little of not hurt like heck.
I do think what the nurse did was cool though. Helping to train the intern. Telling her how to do some things and being a grump until she got it right. That was pretty cool I think.
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Actually the female doc who ripped off her clothes did so to prove a point which concerned the fact that the Ahole doc we all love...posted up the pinup layout she did for some lingerie company to get through med school and was trying to humiliate her. They were all standing around drooling and i guess she got sick of their immaturity.To prove a point she totally confronted their obsession head on. :) whatever it takes..... :chuckle
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