VIDEO: 'Mercy' puts nurses at center stage
Nurses are sassy! Nurses know best! We're not trying to knock the profession, mind, but NBC's "Mercy" seems determined to paint its main characters as all that stands between us and certain death at the hands of incompetent doctors.
That's an odd direction for a show to take in an age of medical dramas like "ER" and "Grey's Anatomy" and even "Scrubs," where we see it takes a hospital community to heal the sick.
Anyway, Taylor Schilling is the Iraq War vet torn between a former love and her (judging by these clips) boorish husband; Jamie Lee Kirchner ("Rescue Me") is the sexpot nurse everyone wants; and "Gossip Girl's" Michelle Trachtenburg is the requisite idealistic newbie. We'll let the preview tell you everything else you need to know:
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I'm sorry...but this show looks awful. As does Parenthood. This is the best NBC had to pick from?
Guess what? Grey's, ER, House, all of them, even Scrub's have given you the most skewed f'ing wacked out version of how hospitals operate and more specifically the role of nurses and doctors.
A M.D. is a degree. It means nothing. An R.N. is didatic and clinical. Tested and proven, and with three smesters of pharmacology under my belt, I had nowhere to go but up when I started out. I think the days of Doctor worship are about to come to a crashing end. Cuz unless you've been to a hospital lately your physician is either from a country you've never heard of or he's a 24 year old vietnames/korean doggie Howser.
Hate to tell ya', about 50% of docs are outstanding and what they do on a daily basis is inspiring ot me as a R.N. The other 50% should never have been let out of their bedroom where they have been studying for the last 15 years. Seriously, so many docs have been studying for so long they are emotionally 14-16. I'm not kidding. They provide horrid care. Some of them don't even comb their hair. F'ing creepy.
And it doesn't take a war in Iraq to seriously **** your **** up as a nurse. L.A. County packs a heavy punch.
as a former head nurse this show looks great. Taylor seems well suited for her role. I look forward to watching this new show.