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Nurses 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 most handsome man I’ve ever met: His name was Christopher Reeve....
Nurses 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 “Robby” Robinavitch. Created by former “ER” writer R. Scott...
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 had already received a prior letter from the fertility...

Nursing Education

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 convent in London’s East End in the late 1950s. The storyline of...
Nurses 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 mom with two small children and some serious health issues — she...
Nurses 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 fictional characters at the real China Beach, an Army base near Da...

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