New "Hopkins" reality show

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has anyone heard anything of this new "hopkins" reality tv show coming up this summer on abc? it looks like they follow people at john hopkins to give an inside look at the hospital setting. i'm only worried that they will only focus on the doctors (as usual!). i hope nurses get a fair shake here. the theme song is worrying me...something about "i wanna be your savior..." as if docs need more of a god complex! alas, here's hoping....

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Does anyone remember "Houston Medical", which aired around the same time (ca. 2000)? The only doctors who were even remotely likable were Dr. Marnie Rose, who was battling brain cancer and died shortly after the series aired,

I was just about to comment on Marnie Rose! I still remember her and that show like I really knew her. I hope this new installment is just as touching...

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If this is who you're thinking of, this girl died even before her episode aired, although it was a type of cancer that is seldom curable anyway and so rare, most doctors never see a case of it.

Still no excuse for the insurance company to refuse to pay for NECESSARY treatment!

Awwww......I don't remember much about the girl, but I thought it was benign.

I do remember her father was so ticked off that he was going to sue the HMO, even though back then you supposedly couldn't.

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I was just about to comment on Marnie Rose! I still remember her and that show like I really knew her. I hope this new installment is just as touching...

I loved Marnie Rose and I am sorry to hear that she died. I remember when I watched the program that I really hoped that she made it because she seemed so down to earth and real with her patients. I look forward to the new program because I find myself desperate for programs to listen to while I do homework for my BSN! I rarely sit down to watch anything, but will listen and look up if something is happening that catches my attention

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critical mass: abc news producer on what makes johns hopkins great ...

as to differences between hopkins 24/7 and the film that will air this summer: "i think viewers will get a greater sense of the stress and toll such dedication takes on the lives of the people who work there. yes, you will still see the amazing medicine they practice. but you will also get an incredibly intimate look at the lives of the doctors, residents and families at hopkins."

johns hopkins magazine -- november 2000

school of medicine dean edward miller rose to greet the crowd and quipped, "welcome to hopkins 24/7, part seven: the post-mortem

hopkins nurses were later featured in seperate show called "hopkins nurses" that aired on discovery channel.

the johns hopkins gazette: july 31, 2000

the johns hopkins gazette: january 8, 2001

on jan. 28, 2001 the discovery health channel will air the first two episodes of its five-part series nurses, shot entirely at the johns hopkins medical institutions.

through fast-paced camera work, the show will depict the daily routine of hopkins nurses as they wage a battle against death and disease. each episode focuses on the men and women within a specialty. "pediatrics" will premiere jan. 28 at 8 p.m., with "critical care" to air at 9 p.m. the same night. the final three episodes--"battling for babies," "touch of mercy," an episode about cancer care, and "nursing the mind"-- will be shown on feb. 18 at 8, 9 and 10 p.m.

i enjoyed watching both shows and plan to watch this one as well

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Does anyone have an idea what days/times this new "Hopkins Hospital" will be airing? I looked on ABC.com but see nothing about the show.

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i work for hopkins and this is the notice they sent out this morning. it sounds like some nurses will be featured:

dear colleagues,

in late 2006, johns hopkins medicine agreed once again to a request from abc news to give unusually wide access to a large team of documentary film makers led by many of the same network producers and journalists who created the award-winning documentary hopkins: 24/7 eight years ago. after more than five months of filming in the johns hopkins hospital and health system facilities, abc news will air the new prime-time documentary -- called hopkins -- on six, consecutive thursdays in prime time, beginning june 26, at 10 p.m.

the new series focuses more than the earlier one on young physicians still in training, on the dramatic work of some special nurses, and so very importantly, on our patients, who agreed to share remarkably private moments so that the real practice of real medicine can be shown. more than 100 johns hopkins faculty, residents, nurses, students, patients and family members gave their consent and participated in the production.

for nearly 120 years, the johns hopkins hospital has opened its doors to millions of patients. with hopkins, millions more will be able to share the experience and to know we are here if they need us. we invite you to tune in june 26, and to learn more now at http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hopkinsabc and http://hopkins.abcnews.com/ .

edward d. miller, m.d.

dean/ceo johns hopkins medicine

ronald r. peterson

president, the johns hopkins hospital and health system

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i work for hopkins and this is the notice they sent out this morning. it sounds like some nurses will be featured:

dear colleagues,

in late 2006, johns hopkins medicine agreed once again to a request from abc news to give unusually wide access to a large team of documentary film makers led by many of the same network producers and journalists who created the award-winning documentary hopkins: 24/7 eight years ago. after more than five months of filming in the johns hopkins hospital and health system facilities, abc news will air the new prime-time documentary -- called hopkins -- on six, consecutive thursdays in prime time, beginning june 26, at 10 p.m.

the new series focuses more than the earlier one on young physicians still in training, on the dramatic work of some special nurses, and so very importantly, on our patients, who agreed to share remarkably private moments so that the real practice of real medicine can be shown. more than 100 johns hopkins faculty, residents, nurses, students, patients and family members gave their consent and participated in the production.

for nearly 120 years, the johns hopkins hospital has opened its doors to millions of patients. with hopkins, millions more will be able to share the experience and to know we are here if they need us. we invite you to tune in june 26, and to learn more now at http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hopkinsabc and http://hopkins.abcnews.com/ .

edward d. miller, m.d.

dean/ceo johns hopkins medicine

ronald r. peterson

president, the johns hopkins hospital and health system

wow! thank you for letting us read this:yeah:.

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i work for hopkins and this is the notice they sent out this morning. it sounds like some nurses will be featured:

dear colleagues,

in late 2006, johns hopkins medicine agreed once again to a request from abc news to give unusually wide access to a large team of documentary film makers led by many of the same network producers and journalists who created the award-winning documentary hopkins: 24/7 eight years ago. after more than five months of filming in the johns hopkins hospital and health system facilities, abc news will air the new prime-time documentary -- called hopkins -- on six, consecutive thursdays in prime time, beginning june 26, at 10 p.m.

the new series focuses more than the earlier one on young physicians still in training, on the dramatic work of some special nurses, and so very importantly, on our patients, who agreed to share remarkably private moments so that the real practice of real medicine can be shown. more than 100 johns hopkins faculty, residents, nurses, students, patients and family members gave their consent and participated in the production.

for nearly 120 years, the johns hopkins hospital has opened its doors to millions of patients. with hopkins, millions more will be able to share the experience and to know we are here if they need us. we invite you to tune in june 26, and to learn more now at http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hopkinsabc and http://hopkins.abcnews.com/ .

edward d. miller, m.d.

dean/ceo johns hopkins medicine

ronald r. peterson

president, the johns hopkins hospital and health system

thanks so much for the info!

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Thanks for giving the dates. I'll have to tune in!

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I just saw a plug for this a few days ago...looks like it will be good.

I generally don't watch stuff like that, though - like to leave work at work to the extent that I can.

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There's a new thread about this, and it will probably be a disappointment to most of you.

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I think the reason producers focus more on the doctors is because people are probably more interested in the diseases and how doctors arise at the conclusion that Jane Doe has Pffifers Syndrome, rather than how the nurse implements the orders and cares for the patients.

I would personally not watch a show that follows nurses around -- how boring! :) I think what we do is amazing and nurses are definitely under-appreciated.. but who wants to see a nurse charting, hanging an IV, administering medications, doing assessments, running their butts off...?

If you watch Trauma ER on Discovery Health, the nurses are definitely spotlighted.. but that is because they are in with the action when a trauma comes in.

BULLFEATHERS!! Anybody remember the TV show "Quincy"? How 'bout something with a similar format but from a nursing perspective:

-Young, post-surgical patient. Mentions slight ache in leg. Observant nurse assesses, finds leg red, swollen and tender, follows up with MD. But before pt can get down for U/S on leg, he becomes SOB. The RN goes into crisis mode, gets vitals, puts pt on non-rebreather, etc while another RN is summoning the MET team/Rapid Response team or MD. THEN the MD could arrive on the scene and the focus of care might transition to medical rather than nursing-about 2/3 of the way through the program! Ending: patient still alive thanks to the nurse's rapid action.

The formula would be to follow one (or 2-3) patient(s) per episode, featuring a nurse's assessment/ observations and progressing through the reasoning (ie critical thinking but if we said it that way it would sound too boring!) to identify an emerging ominous condition just in the nick of time to avert disaster (septic shock/ hemorrhage from GI bleed, CVA...) And as happens so frequently in real life, the nurse would be pro-active in performing relevant assessments and gathering the appropriate labs, history, etc while chasing down a doc to see the pt.

Heck, we could come up with like 2 years of story lines from the archives of Allnurse.com with a very brief search- we could just have a thread called "disasters I have averted". And like in real life, each week the scene could open to a very boring scenario-which changes in the blink of an eye to a life-or-death situation!

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