![]() ![]() ![]() (The show was so insultingly bad that a well-orchestrated protest by thousands of RNs quickly led to its cancellation.) In the post- Nightingales era, the medical profession continued to dominate-in The Practice, Grey’s Anatomy, and House-while the message of ER seemed to be that any really good nurse was just wasting her life in a subordinate role and should become a physician instead (as the leading RN character in the series eventually did). On a short-lived Aaron Spelling series called Nightingales, student nurses were similarly depicted as bimbos too busy with exercise class to spend any time studying. In typical TV treatment, the nurses on Chicago Hope spent more time charting doctors’ love lives than the recovery of their patients. The series, which was critically well-received, offered a refreshingly sympathetic portrayal of the field, but it only lasted two seasons before Benjamin and her colleagues disappeared from view.īetween now and then, the nation’s largest health care profession (now 2.5 million members strong) has remained invisible or, at best, laughable, on the home screen. The main character was RN Mary Benjamin, who cared for patients in a fictitious New York City hospital. ![]() Back in the 1980s, RNs and the crucial work they do had a brief star turn in a show called Nurse. It’s been several decades since prime time TV featured a nurse as anything more than a background prop for doctors. ![]()
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