Nurses who became famous

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Good morning. I was reading on cnn.com this morning about author Malcolm Gladwell's new book that discusses why some people become famous and why others just blend in the crowd. I was wondering... are there any nurses who became famous after being a nurse?? Like did any become noted advocates, influential public officials, or maybe even moviestars?? :thankya:This is a fun question and I am just curious if any nurses out there that you know of had a brush with fame.

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The old lady on Desperate House Wives, can't remember her name, was a psyc nurse for many years, just saw it on The View last week.

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The old lady on Desperate House Wives, can't remember her name, was a psyc nurse for many years, just saw it on The View last week.

Yikes . .. what is your definition of "old"? :coollook:

I don't watch the show but the main characters are all HOT. "Old" or not.

steph

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Bonnie Hunt was an Oncology Nurse at a hospital in Chicago (where she is from). She talks about it often on her talk show and donates a lot of money to the cancer center she worked at through fund raisers on her show. Not sure if it was a doctor she was married to, but she is divorced at this time. Very nice and funny lady.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.
Sad that Terry Schiavos husband was a nurse and he still put his wife through all that torture...oh well. but there was also Walt Whitman famous author/poet was an army nurse.

No her family (parents and sister, and brother) put her through all that torture. He tried to have her made a DNR and they wouldn't let him. He wanted her off the tube feed, and they kept getting court orders for her to remain on it. So he didn't torture her. Her family did. He tried to stop them.

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Mel Gibsons wife was a nurse.

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Sad that Terry Schiavos husband was a nurse and he still put his wife through all that torture...oh well. but there was also Walt Whitman famous author/poet was an army nurse.

I thought her parents put her through the torture. The husband wanted her to die with dignity, did he not? I was younger when it happened, so maybe I'm confused.

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I thought her parents put her through the torture. The husband wanted her to die with dignity, did he not? I was younger when it happened, so maybe I'm confused.

It was only 3 years ago!

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It was only 3 years ago!

It started in 1998, when the husband petitioned to remove the feeding tube. I was what, 14? I didn't follow it too closely. When it was resolved,I was 21, and didn't pay much attention to the news.

But, after researching it, It turns out I was right, the parents were the ones to blame for torturing her.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

Country music artist Paul Brandt was a PICU nurse in Calgary before his singing career took off. The song in this video was a wedding gift for a coworker back before he made it big.

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Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.

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Former Mouskateer Darlene Gillespie used to be an OR nurse until she got into some trouble with the law. Kathryn Crosby, Bing's widow. She graduated from Queen of Angels School of Nursing in Los Angeles.

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Ellen Church, the world's first flight attendant was an RN, which was a requirement for the job. She was also a pilot.

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