Bits and Pieces

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I'm sitting here watching Grey's Anatomy out of necessity. The assignment for my Nursing in the Media class is to watch some medical shows and report back on negative/positive images of nursing. The problem I'm running into now is that I hate medical shows and I have no idea who's a nurse and who's a doctor on this thing. I suppose the nurses are wallflowers, hmm? I wasn't aware that the title character was a woman. I guess that's a plus. These residents are really well rested, aren't they? Bwah. Real life needs to smack this show in the head.

One other thing - where the frak are the nurses? In a real hospital the nurses outnumber the doctors like crazy.Hyperbole and I are bedfellows, you see. Upon further contemplation nurses may not *vastly* outnumber doctors (taking into account residents, interns, and the full-fledged MDs), but they at least can be found at equal numbers. Shame on you, show. You mean this hospital is run by doctors? Lord, I can just imagine the payroll issues.
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I was watching SC and amusing myself by checking the translations. There's a scene in episode three where Jin and his young charge dress up in order to infiltrate a brothel (long story). In the English dub the kid tells Jin he looks good in the female attire. Jin responds "It's quite uncomfortable". I immediately hear the tap-tap-tapping of keyboards as the fanfics using that statement as canon are brought to life. When I switched over to the subtitled Japanese Jin's reported to say "I am uncomfortable with this". Very much different, no? Let me not even get started on the translation quibbles in the scene with Jin and the gay ronin. It's times like that when I wish I could understand Japanese.

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Hmm. Grey's Anatomy. *tsk* So you're telling me talking calmly with a woman who's been in labor for a crapload of time will make her capable of delivering vaginally. Did y'all even check the heart monitors on the baby? Good gravy. And *where are the nurses*??!?!
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Flicking back and forth between Grey's and the Winter Olympics. Pissed I missed Shaun White's first run as I know he half-asses his second. I had to flick off of Grey's, classwork be damned. Sappy songs? Fade to whites to love interests? Ye Gods. And I knew that was going to happen (you know what I'm talking about). If it didn't I was going to be pissed off. At least Christina Ricci's hot in this.
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It's always interesting to hear phone posts from people on my FL. Somehow the voices are never how I expect them. Lower, richer, more mature. I think it's cool. I'm also jealous, as I have the voice of a young kid (IMO).

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Worst. Hospital. Ever. They took Grey to the shower? After that, shouldn't she be getting assessed for internal injury, shrapnel, something? Never again with this show or anything of its ilk.
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Can't believe some of you wonderful folk think I'm mature. ::giggles and plays with her stuffed Elmo:: That certainly was interesting. Introversion isn't one of the first six qualities that comes to mind when you think of fredericks? I guess that's a good thing.

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We talked about the strike. I don't watch the show, btw (is it obvious?); I started the class a week late and one of the assignments was to watch the strike episode of Grey's. The problem expressed was that the nurses were given peripheral roles and the actual coverage of the strike was given lip service (some of the students were particularly upset over the fact that the nurses had to get one of the residents to act as their spokesperson as if nurses can't speak for themselves). Nurses don't work for doctors - they work with them. A Chief of Surgery isn't going to hire you when you get out of school but a Director of Nursing is, and so the scenario was not realistic. The language used we also touched upon - the CoS referred to the nurses in the possessive when, again, he's not their boss and they don't work *under* him. And then the show went from showing bits and pieces of a nursing strike and calling them invaluable to the operations of a hospital (which we are) to completely ignoring them in subsequent weeks. Sure the shows about the interns but you've been in clinical - you know the interns end up asking the nurses for advice all the time when they don't know how to do a procedure. Meh.

I didn't particularly like the show because I'm not a fan of the drama/"RL" stuff. Aside from the Discovery Health shows the only medical tv program I watch is Scrubs, and that has minimal medical information.

PS - You might want to check out this, the Nursing Advocacy webpage. (http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/news/news.html) I swear I'm not parroting their Grey's Anatomy opinion; I just now noticed what they had on the front page. :)

PPS - Some kid is interviewing Patrick Dempsey for my school newspaper this week. It's a phone interview, but he's listed as being a character on Grey's Anatomy. I couldn't help but wish I was a fangirl or something so I could snag it.