Reviews of television series featuring nurses
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| Current Health Television Shows (ordered by nursing rating) |
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| Call the Midwife | (2012 - present) |  |
| Virgin River | (2019 - present) | |
| Chicago Med | (2015 - present) |  |
| Nurses (Toronto) | (2020 - present) | |
| Bob Hearts Abishola | (2019 - present) | |
| The Resident | (2018 - present) | |
| Outlander | (2014 - present) | |
| The Good Doctor | (2017 - present) |  |
| Grey's Anatomy | (2005 - present) | |
| Black-ish | (2015 - present) |
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| Ratched | (2019 - present) |
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| New Amsterdam | (2018 - present) | |
| Transplant | (2020 - present) | pending review |
| Ordinary Joe | (2021 - present) | pending review |
| Good Sam | (2021 - present) | pending review |
| Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. | (2021 - present) | pending review |
Health Shows No Longer in Production |
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| Nurse Jackie | (2009 - 2015) | |
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| Mercy | (2009 - 2010) | |
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| HawthoRNe | (2009 - 2011) | |
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| Mercy Street | (2016 - 2017) | |
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| One Day at a Time | (2017 - 2020) | |
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| Red Band Society | (2015) | |
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| The Glades | (2010 - 2013) | |
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| Combat Hospital | (2011) | |
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| M*A*S*H | (1972 - 1983) |  |
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| Scrubs
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(2001 - 2010) | |
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| Dr. Vegas | (2004) | |
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| The Night Shift | (2014 - 2017) | |
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| Strong Medicine
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(2000 - 2006) | |
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| Miami Medical | (2010) | |
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| Becker | (1998 - 2004) | |
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| Hart of Dixie | (2011 - 2015) | |
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| Code Black | (2015 - 2018) | |
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| Royal Pains | (2009 - 2016) | |
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| Mental | (2009) | |
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| Medical Investigation | (2004 - 2005) | |
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| Private Practice | (2007 - 2013) | |
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| Dr. Ken | (2015 - 2017) |
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| Three Rivers | (2009 - 2010) | |
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| Presidio Med | (2002 - 2003) | |
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| Scrubbing In | (2013) | |
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| House | (2004 - 2012) | |
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| The Mindy Project | (2012 - 2017) |
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| Gifted Man | (2011 - 2012) | |
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| Off the Map | (2011) | |
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| Monday Mornings | (2013) | |
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| Inconceivable | (2005) | |
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| MDs | (2002 - 2003) | |
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| Nightingales | (1988 - 1989) | |
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| Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | January 25, 2019 | |
| Parks & Recreation | February 24, 2015 | |
| Inside Amy Schumer | May 20, 2014 | |
| Sleepy Hollow | November 17, 2014 | |
| Glee | October 3, 2013 | October 4, 2009 | |
| Downton Abbey | Seasons 1 - 3 | |
| Whitney | Fall 2011 | |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | February 22, 2011 | |
| The Dr. Oz Show | November 4, 2010 | |
| Law and Order: SVU Special Victims Unit | September 29, 2010 | November 23, 2004 | |
| Rizzoli & Isles | August 16, 2010 | |
| The Late Show with David Letterman | June 14, 2010 | December 19, 2005 | |
| Accidentally on Purpose | April 7, 2010 | |
| Today Show | September 11, 2009 | November 14, 2005 | |
| Saving Grace | August 18, 2008 | |
| Desperate Housewives | April 13, 2008 | |
| Fox News Channel's Redeye | April 1, 2008 | |
| Curb Your Enthusisam | October 28, 2007 | November 11, 2007 | |
| Dr. Steve-O | October 21, 2007 | |
| Heroes | October 9, 2006 | |
| Sopranos | March 26, 2006 | |
| Law & Order | November 2, 2005 | |
| Cold Case | September 25, 2005 | |
| Six Feet Under | August 21, 2005 | July 31, 2005 | |
| Everybody Loves Raymond | May 16, 2005 | |
| 8 Simple Rules | May 11, 2004 | |
| Will & Grace | Nov. 13, 2003 | Nov. 20, 2003 | April 22, 2004 | |
| 7th Heaven | November 24, 2003 | |
| Judging Amy | November 11, 2003 | |
| As the World Turns | October 14, 2003 | |
| Passions | September 12, 2003 | |
| Hack | March 15, 2003 | |
Also see :
Unreviewed Shows
Below are some shows we have heard about, but have not reviewed. For the puposes of identfying them they are below. Please let us know if you would like to write a guest review on any of them at info@truthaboutnursing. List additions courtesy of Charles Smith, CNA, Arizona. Thank you, Charles!
Angels in White AKA Itsumademo Shiroi Hane (2018). Rumi Kizaki is a young woman who failed to get into Japan's National University. So she enrolls into a nursing school as a last choice. As Rumi learns, interacts with classmates, and patients she realizes being a nurse maybe more than a backup plan for her.
The New Nurses AKA Sygeplejeskolen (2018-2019). Danish TV series about the first men to train and become nurses in 1950s Denmark.
China Beach (1988 – 1991) Award winning television series set at an evacuation hospital/R&R base based on the book Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by former U.S. Army Nurse Lynda Van Devanter (first published in 1983).
The Crimson Field (2015). In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of physicians, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the men wounded in the trenches of WWI.
ANZAC Girls (2014). During World War I, true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Based on the book The Other Anzacs: Nurses At War 1914-1918 by Peter Reese (First Published in 2008).
Edith Cavell - Not a Martyr But a Nurse - Who Did What in WW 1? (2016) (TV)
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