Dallas Escorts: ‘Hawthorne’ and ‘Nurse Jackie’ give a different view of nursing
… When Edie attached herself to a nurse project, that hit Hollywood like wildfire,” said Liz Brixius, 45, who rewrote a surreal, partially animated pilot script with partner Linda Wallem into the grittier, blue-collar comedy that became Nurse Jackie. “Jackie has her own code . . . and gets the job done. If Dirty Harry were a nurse in her 40s, he’d be Jackie Peyton.”
She’s definitely not Florence Nightingale
There’s a lot about Nurse Jackie that nurses like Summers might not admire.
Addicted to painkillers, Falco’s Peyton is sleeping with the hospital’s pharmacist. She also practices a form of frontier justice in the ER, forging a young man’s signature on an organ donor card after his death and flushing the severed ear of a man who brutally assaults prostitutes down the toilet.
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