ON GREY’S ANATOMY & NURSING STUDENTS
DR. CRISTINA YANG: I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one - don’t try sucking up. I already hate you, that’s not gonna change…..
…. The dying person better not be dead when I get there because not only would you have killed someone. You would have waken me for no good reason…
~Typical Dr. Yang line. I love her, in fact she’s my favorite character in Grey’s Ana… Yeah, she’s this great, brainy surgeon and she rocks at being one. I’ve seen doctors and surgeons like her in real life — you know — those kinds that seem to NEVER commit an error, they’re almost inhuman! And frankly, I don’t love them the way I do Dr. Yang’s character. The Dr. Yangs make nursing students like myself feel like morons who have no business being anywhere near a hospital. But then again, they have the right to make us feel like incapables because they do excellent jobs… they save lives man!
DR. ALEX KAREV: You’re grunts. You’re at the bottom of the surgical food chain…
~No, Dr. Karev, your interns aren’t at the bottom because nursing students are! Interns, staff nurses, clinical instructors, even the trainees can take the pleasure in busting us (nursing students) out… So interns, you’re cool… We nursing students, have to live with the fact that we are the lowest of the low in the hospital food chain… even if we pay our RLE fees, we’re still at the bottom. So again, Dr. Karev, that statement of yours isn’t really applicable to real life. That’s ok… months from now, me and my batchmates are gonna be registered nurses…. hopefully!
DR. SHEPHERD: (to Lexie Grey) You’re the girl from the bar!
~Mcdreamy… he’s awesome! He just looks so good when he’s in his scrub suit and he’s doing a craniotomy… Plus the fact that he remembers interns from the bar (or does he just remember women named Grey exclusively?)… Anyway, you don’t find that often — doctors actually remembering people who are not at the same league as them (interns, nurses, students)…. Well don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against doctors (especially neuros) but it’s just that they are so preoccupied by their heroic roles of saving people’s lives that they don’t have time to remember girls from the bar. So a doctor remembering a nursing student in real life? Not likely.
DR. LEXIE GREY: (Pointing towards the patient) Did he just move?
~In season four of Grey’s, Dr. Lexie appeared with the other new interns (and Dr. O’malley as well) and they are like these clueless lot… Dr. Yang even confesses: "I hate them!" and calls them numbers (1 and 2, get to the ambulance!)…. And I can so relate to that! I mean, you try to be observant (like what Lexie did here) and yet, you still feel like you’re clueless and hopeless… So is it possible for interns and in this post’s case student nurses to feel inadequate? Based on my personal experience, I would say yes.
I watch Grey’s because I can relate to it. It’ like ‘Yes, exactly! I know!’… I should like the medical setting because in the near future, I will be in a true-to-life Seatle Grace Hospital and I will be experiencing true-to-life challenges in that particular field… until of course I enter the convent and become a nun…
But it will be great… God help… =)
