... and then I caught this episode and it reminded me of why.
A nurse helps cut red tape when Dr. Asten's wife needs emergency surgery. Then that same nurse makes a mistake when she restarts an IV drip that a doctor had stopped intentionally but had left no notes on the patient chart saying that he had done so and why. The patient dies and the nurse is on the hot seat. The nurse quits before they can fire her, and the other nurses in the hospital go on strike until their demands about working conditions, pay, and professional respect are met. Dr. Asten take an interest in the situation because the nurse helped his wife and that gets Quincy involved.
It's bad enough this was one of the "issue" episodes of Quincy that seems like an outdated episode of Sixty Minutes from 1970, but it doesn't even have much Quincy! The nurses are not regular characters on the show and don't have any real connection to those characters, and their issues seem very oldy and moldy at this point. They try to turn this into a "male employee (doctor) giving no respect to a female employee (nurse)" issue, but today with many nurses being male and many doctors being female, it just seems tired and boring.
A nurse helps cut red tape when Dr. Asten's wife needs emergency surgery. Then that same nurse makes a mistake when she restarts an IV drip that a doctor had stopped intentionally but had left no notes on the patient chart saying that he had done so and why. The patient dies and the nurse is on the hot seat. The nurse quits before they can fire her, and the other nurses in the hospital go on strike until their demands about working conditions, pay, and professional respect are met. Dr. Asten take an interest in the situation because the nurse helped his wife and that gets Quincy involved.
It's bad enough this was one of the "issue" episodes of Quincy that seems like an outdated episode of Sixty Minutes from 1970, but it doesn't even have much Quincy! The nurses are not regular characters on the show and don't have any real connection to those characters, and their issues seem very oldy and moldy at this point. They try to turn this into a "male employee (doctor) giving no respect to a female employee (nurse)" issue, but today with many nurses being male and many doctors being female, it just seems tired and boring.