Today, from the old days of empty-headed, eye-candy nurses of the 1950s and 1960s, we have a long tradition of diverse, respectable TV nurses. The tired old sexist tropes were out, and nurses who could hold their own against any doctor were in. With pressure to make more relatable women, TV writers and creators realized there was an audience for nurse characters who were well-rounded, realistic, and complex. TV Nurses of Yesterday and TodayĪ funny thing started happening around the 1970s, though, at the height of the 20th century feminist movement – TV nurses started getting interesting. From City Hospital (the first TV medical drama) to General Hospital (the longest-running TV soap opera still on the air, since 1963), there is no more reliable source of entertainment than handsome doctors and pretty nurses – except maybe cops and robbers. Medical shows have been a staple of TV since the earliest days of the medium – after all, nothing’s more dramatic than literal life or death situations.
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