I decided to attach this episode to the blog because as a
nursing student I am truly offended with the portrayal of nurses, particularly
female nurses in this episode. As you
watch the episode the one nurse who is repeatedly shown is Marina who although
well educated and ranked top of her graduating class is portrayed as the “hot,
yet dumb, nurse”. Her inappropriateness
to her client’s persisting erection and then her later inappropriate acceptance
of dinner with a former patient of hers perpetuates the notion that female
nurses are there just that—sexual, tender species who lack adequate education
as compared to their male counterpart, the physicians. This episode again reiterates an old belief
that nursing is a female occupation and you only become a nurse when you are
not smart enough to be accepted into medical school. This message is portrayed in the way that the
film crew has decided to distinguish the “knowledgeable” and respected
physicians from the more immature nursing staff. Although there were exceptions to the sexes of
the physicians and nurses, a majority of them were divided based upon their
sex—the males were physicians and the females were nurses. This sexualization of occupations and the
stereotypes that are perpetuated in this episode are profound, from the “hot,
dumb blond” we know as Marina
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