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Woman sitting on a hospital exam table turning her face awayNurses OnscreenPodcast Review: “The Retrievals” Season 2A harrowing report about women undergoing C-sections with inadequate anesthesiaReporter Susan Burton’s podcast about doctors and nurses ignoring women’s very real pain returns for a new season. Back in 2023, “The Retrievals” presented an exposé of the...
Christopher Reeve in colorful promo for film SupermanNurses OnscreenSuper/Man: The Christopher Reeve StoryAn inspiring documentary about life before and after his disabling accidentWhen I was a student at Cornell University in the early ‘70s, my roommate asked if I minded if she invited a friend of hers from high school over for dinner. That evening, in walked the...
Noah Wyle stars in a buzzy new medical drama called The PittNurses OnscreenThe PittNoah Wyle stars in a buzzy new medical drama set in a Pittsburgh EDThirty years after “ER,” Noah Wyle has returned to the emergency department in a new HBO Max series called “The Pitt,” where he plays seasoned ER attending physician Michael...
Back view of female patient in surgical gown with her hair over her shoulder.Nurses OnscreenPodcast Review: “The Retrievals”A riveting account of the Yale Fertility Clinic drug diversion scandalIn late 2020, two hundred patients of the Yale Fertility Center received letters from the Department of Justice telling them that they were potential victims in a federal criminal case. They...
Nurses and a nun from TV show Call the Midwife care for a woman in labor.FeatureThe Many Lessons of “Call the Midwife”The popular BBC series, set in mid-century London, continues to instruct and inspire modern nursesFirst aired in 2012, “Call the Midwife” is a BBC period drama, shown in the U.S. on PBS, that follows groups of newly qualified nurse midwives living at Nonnatus House, an Anglican...

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Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne from a scene in The Good Nurse sitting on the ground talkingNurses OnscreenThe Good NurseA tense thriller about a real-life nurse serial killerIn this Netflix thriller, actress Jessica Chastain plays Amy Loughren, a recently-hired critical care nurse on the night shift at Parkfield Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. Amy is a single...
Colleen McMurphy stands in green Army uniform next to a DVD copy of China BeachNurses OnscreenBinge-Watching “China Beach”What I learned from the highly acclaimed TV series about Army nurses in Vietnam“China Beach” is a network television drama that ran on ABC for four seasons, l988–1991, decades after the Vietnam War during which the show is set. The series told the story of...