Junior Doctors then Confessions of a Nurse - anyone else?

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Last two weeks I've watched these shows one after the other and couldn't help but be depressed by their depiction of the class system still functioning at its best.
Lovely upper middle class doctors dashing about glamourously, feted by all their colleagues and patients, appreciated by everyone, generally portrayed as lovely kind people. Zipping about, curing people and generally being good eggs.
Nurses mainly very working class, single mums, hard regional accents putting up with a relentless, grindingly repetitive working environment. Demented, violent, ignorant, ungrateful patients day after day on bleak, cheerless wards.
Anyone else struck by the contrast?

Interesting point that I had not thought about. But I think there is some truth in your point OP.

Then it would be because even now nursing is a female dominated profession and doctors are still from well educated and well funded backgrounds.
They are not all like this of course but I think the majority are.

i wondered about the educational background of the nurses shown. I may be wrong but I thought all nurses now did degrees in nursing, effectively making it a graduate 'profession'.
So, the young women entering nursing degrees should have A Levels and so on and shouldn't necessarily appear to be from such different social backgrounds as the young doctors.
Either this is peculiarly biased selection on behalf of the tv production company or, it's illustrating that the social makeup of degree entrants in nursing is entirely different to that of medicine.
Is it illustrating the pathway that middle class parents prepare for their children (medicine/professions) as opposed to the pathway that working class children follow? (nursing, para-professions)

Nursing isn't quite graduate only yet. Degrees will be mandatory either this yr or next I think.
I am a nurse and am shocked at the dumbed down portrayal the program gave of nurses.

Exactly! It portrays female nurses as very working class, a bit mumsy, or slightly off the rails and just not very careerish.
Not a very positive portrayal at all.
Made me feel depressed for them, as though their lives are all on the way down while the junior doctors are all on the way up.
Don't think the show will do much to promote nursing.

I was also shocked at the voice overs , nice idea but could just imagine the program makers egging them on to swear to spice it up. Totally lost credibility for me.
Not once did they feature the mountains of paperwork involved in everyday nursing and how much time it takes , was a very skewed look at nursing.Also no community nurses of which I am one.

I think even with degree only nurses 2 year of A levels and a three year (bursury funded) degree is within reach of many more people than the years of unfunded study required to be a doctor.

i find the nurses doc much more fascinating than the doctors one and really feel sorry for the amount of crap they have to put up with. shame it's hidden away really