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!!
you must didn't see the last post. I didn't hear none of the negative comments about the nurses. I think that was rude and comments make some think that nurse don't do anything. But that show or that comment is not going to stop me from going medical school. I volunteer at a hosp and I see LPN being nasty to CNA, RNs toward LPN and the Dr. toward the RN. I see it everyday and I am still going to go to get my BS in nursing and move on to MD school.
so don't be confused!
yes, you edited your message after I had already replied.
you must didn't see the last post. I didn't hear none of the negative comments about the nurses. I think that was rude and comments make some think that nurse don't do anything. But that show or that comment is not going to stop me from going medical school. I volunteer at a hosp and I see LPN being nasty to CNA, RNs toward LPN and the Dr. toward the RN. I see it everyday and I am still going to go to get my BS in nursing and move on to MD school.
I'm so disappointed in this show. I just emailed ABC and I never email networks on shows.
The scene with the doctor and the nurse was so disturbing. I liked how the OP put it referring to the intern saying, "Did you just call me a nurse?" It WAS as if she just had had a racial slur thrown at her.
I am from Seattle and have worked at both major teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of WA. That 'intern' would have been eaten alive if he ever dared to speak to a nurse that way. Most med school graduates now days are not that insolent upon graduating med school. If they are that way earlier on in school, their attitude is adjusted or they will fail. Occasionally one with a big head makes it through and develops it further until they become a putrified blob of condescension. However, this is rarity NOWdays.
In addition to that scene with the idiot intern, did anyone notice the following?
1) five general surgery residents meet the helicopter on the roof to accept a SEIZURE patient?
2) when they get to the ER (?) there is not a nurse in sight. The mds are starting IVs, hooking up monitors, providing all the care.
3) when the kid is seizing in her hospital room and the resident is standing there freaking out, all the nurses act like they don't have a CLUE what to do?! I was waiting for one of the nurses to step up and say, "How about some ativan?!"
I thought the show was decent (I liked the characters and the setting) but I was APPALLED at how Nurses were portrayed and how unrealistic the rest was.
I could hardly wait for Grey Anatomy to air, after the comment about nurses, I lost interest, instead I worked on my hobby. So sad, it looked great on the commercials for this program.
Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
I was so excited to watch this show and my heart sank when they said that crap! I was hoping in the end that jerk dr. would have been shown up by the RN. I hate how they have the RN's in the background. As a pre-RN student, it makes me crazy to think my dream and passion for nursing will feel like a fight to get credit and respect for my medical knowlege and hard work. Not to mention the other people out there that are interested in nursing and decide not to do it because of the sterotypes of the profession and the rude light they show dr.'s in. Are dr.'s really this way? We need a nursing show to give the glory back to the REAL hero's - the NURSES! Can I get an "AMEN"?!
You can say that again!!! Nurses are the ones who do all the crap and who take all the crap. It's about time they did something good about nurses, and they have saved a good many doctors' licenses. But when a nurse has to call a doc in the middle of the night. she gets growled at.
Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
I just read the link that Karen put up. It's a direct link to that hospital where the show was produced, and their comments are much like ours. They even mentioned there were no nurse anesthesists, when most anesthesists are nurses. I am going to give the show a chance to see if they'll give nurses more respect, and include them in some of the ever valuable feedback suggestions, since nurses are the ones who do the bedside care, and see the patient far more than the doc, who gives one the impression, "If it doesn't shoe up in a test, it doesn't exist," and the poor patient is then diagnosed as a hysterical hypochondriac looking for attention. No, with the experiences I have had with docs, (and they have been many) most were not positive, with the exception of a very select few. I respect Nurse Practitioners much more.
I watched the show last night and I found it offensive to nurses.
I am a pre-nursing student and felt that nurses were put down and not given any credit at all. But I am taking the show with a grain of salt. It's just entertainment, YES it shows a lot of stereotypes, but so do commercials, magazines, magazine ads, and ALL tv shows. Just like only 2% of women actually look like supermodels and actresses, but in Hollywood everyone looks like that, thanks to anorexia, plastic surgery, lots of makeup, and good lighting!! :rotfl:
I like watching anything on healthcare/medicine because I like to hear the terminology, seeing the procedures, etc.
Everyone I talk to is so impressed when I say I am going to nursing school, it definitely takes a special person to become a nurse, we are on the frontlines everyday saving lives. Anyone who has ever walked into a doc's office or hospitals knows that and a tv show isn't going to change the fact that nurses are so important to the medical field.
Remember, that arrogant doc go in a lot of trouble at the end, I give him 2 more episodes, he will be out of the program!!
I just want to add a little humor to these posts, I swear my instructor from last semester was on that show!!!!!!!!!! When the resident was pushing the patient around and was lost was hysterical!!! I cant even tell you how many times I have done this and was ready to just get in my car and go home. Aside from all the bad portrayal of the nurses (I totally agree) I liked how I kind of felt what the residents were feeling. When the guy raised his hand and said "Does anyone feel like they dont know what they are doing??" We have all felt this at one time or another. Hopefully this show will be a hit because anything I can remotely relate to interests me.
Just fired off my $.02 to ABC... :angryfire
When the resident was pushing the patient around and was lost was hysterical!!! I cant even tell you how many times I have done this and was ready to just get in my car and go home. Aside from all the bad portrayal of the nurses (I totally agree) I liked how I kind of felt what the residents were feeling. When the guy raised his hand and said "Does anyone feel like they dont know what they are doing??" We have all felt this at one time or another. Hopefully this show will be a hit because anything I can remotely relate to interests me. 
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yes, you edited your message after I had already replied.
Good luck with whatever you decide. :wink2: