TV & Nursing

dawngloves, BSN, RN · Sep 30, 2002

Actually had a TLC crew in house last year and it was all I could do to yell "Get out of my face!" And they did edit out the nurses a lot!

LasVegasRN · Sep 30, 2002

I'm one of those rare people who loved Chicago Hope. Mandy Patinkin was outstanding - in fact, the whole cast when he was a regular on the show was outstanding. ER just didn't enthrall me as much as Chicago Hope.

Maybe it was because you had Mandy Patinkin, Mark Harmon, Hector (Elizondo?), Adam Arkin.. just all those powerful actors with such magnificent writers did it..

OBNURSEHEATHER · Sep 30, 2002

Originally posted by LasVegasRN
Maybe it was because you had Mandy Patinkin, Mark Harmon, Hector (Elizondo?), Adam Arkin.. just all those powerful actors with such magnificent writers did it..

I liked Chicago Hope too. But I only ever caught it in syndication, I think it was on Lifetime or something. Those were some yummy looking doctors. Adam Arkin. .....shudder

But you know me..... I love my "ER"

Heather

Stargazer · Sep 30, 2002

I gave up on Chicago Hope after the 2nd time in the first season where they did open-heart surgery on a stuck elevator. :rolleyes: And they only had one nurse character and she left after the first or second season.

Agnus · Sep 30, 2002

Is it just me or has no one noticed that not one of these shows is about nurses? Very few nurses are even depicted at all in these shows and rarely at that. They are about the Docs and glamorize the Docs.

On the rare occasion there is a nurse she is relagated maid or clerical tasks or sex object.

It looks like hospitals are FULL of 24hour Docs and rarely a nurse at all.

98 percent of codes are sucessful on TV. AND the person goes on to live a normal healthy life with no after effects, say like oh I don't know, brain damage.

I even see them doing compressions without any type of respitory resusitation an voila the person is suddenly revived and talking.

karenG · Oct 1, 2002

oh shame- I thought all american hosptals were like ER!! none of our medical soaps are realistic- who would watch them if they were!! I watch sometimes to see how much they get wrong!

Karen

boufrn · Oct 3, 2002

I am totally hooked on ER, never miss an episode.., but , I worked for a short time in our ER, and I NEVER saw a doc wait in the parking lot for the ambulance to show up !! But the worst thing I ever saw was when nurse "Carol Hathaway" started an iv on an injured girl, in a parking lot, in the dark, in the pouring down rain !!!! It only took her 2 seconds !! I know I must be slow, but can any of you do it in the dark and rain ????? ( an IV that is...) :-)

teeituptom, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2002

Howdy yall

from deep in the heart of texas

I never watch any of those medical shows. I stick ro scifi and mysteries, and of course the GOLF CHANNEL. Now in my younger days I did watch Marcus Welby MD, and that paramedic series with the 2 dufus medics was that 911, or was it the paramedics, with Nurse Dixie, she was hot, a lot of juvenile fantasies there.

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AmiK25 · Oct 3, 2002

Did any of you watch Presidio Med last night? I hadn't seen it before and my mom told me it was good, so I watched it. Big mistake!! First of all, there was like one nurse on the show and guess what, her name was "nurse." I mean really, what doctor just calls you nurse? And if one did, how many of you wouldn't jump up and say "My NAME is ....."

Second, one of the doctors was talking to her burn patient who had a PCA. She actually said, "Yeah, no more waiting for nurses for thirty minutes to bring you pain medication."

The main thing that really bugged me was that every single thing one of the doctors did (with the exception of surgery or birthing a baby), a nurse would have done in real life. These doctors were sitting with patients for hours and going to schools to visit patients who missed appointments. Give me a break!!

kaycee · Oct 3, 2002

Tom, the show with the 2 dufus medics and nurse Dixie McCall was called Emergency. Inventive title huh.

I watched Presidio Med and the other show on at the same time called MD's. Both suck IMHO.

jenac · Oct 3, 2002

OBNURSEHEATHER- I'm with ya! I love ER- realistic or not. I was a fan long before I was a nurse. I still watch it- schedule allowing, and pick it apart at times too. But come on guys- it's TV. Sex and violence are the American way anymore. Look at the most popular shows today. They don't last long without it. Sad to say, but true. Every show out there has some element of sex- be it sexy nurses who never look frazzled or a hot doctor always looking so fine. And violence? Blood squirtiung everywhere, people with some sort of life-threatening event happening. Scrubs is refreshing because it truely is a comedy- meant to be laughed at and not taken seriously. How many of us have had to just laugh at ourselves some days?

Tv nursing unrealistic? You bet! And I can't think of anything better after a long hard day at work! Enough reality every day.....

nurseandmom · Oct 3, 2002

I watched Pesidio Med last night too. Did you notice that nurse you mentioned (the one named nurse) not only worked in the clinic that all the docs seem to work in but apparently in labor and delivery since she was the one who found the suicide in the closet. Like on the old show Emergency! that had nurse Dixie scrubbing in for surgery.

I do love ER as much for pointing out the mistakes as for the stories and the cute doctors (love that Luca). Sometimes you just gotta laugh. My favorite was the season finale of ER year before last when Mark Green was in the elevator with the murderer transporting him to surgery all by himself (because you know all er doctors do this) and the patient goes in to V-tach, whithout losing consciousness so I guess he had a pulse. Dr Green holds up the defibrilator and shoots it in the air in the elevator! No arcing electricity. In real life he would have had electricity shooting all over the elevator.