How closely (or not) do nurses on the small screen resemble your reality?
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How closely (or not) do nurses on the small screen resemble your reality?

Erin Dean Health journalist

From Call the Midwife to 24 Hours in A&E, readers tell us what they think about the way the profession and healthcare are portrayed through fact and fiction on television

With gripping life or death situations, warring colleagues and love triangles thrown in, TV hospital dramas have long been the staple of the schedules.

Nursing Standard. 35, 3, 8-10. doi: 10.7748/ns.35.3.8.s7

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