* Well, it looks like I didn’t get the CSI spot (sigh), but that’s the way it goes. I’m off this morning to shoot a part in “Gray’s Anatomy”. I play a nurse.’

* It’s shot at a historic studio, ABC Prospect. Check it out:

Studio Info

* UPDATE

* Well, it was a lovely but long day. The studio was nice, kinda small for a studio lot (which is still huge) and very relaxed. It was put at ease immediately by the remarkably sweethearted AD, who greeted me with genuine kindness. I went and got into wardrobe (scrubs), found the holding area and then commenced to grazing at the craft services table. I ran into an asstant AD who had worked on “Monster in Law”, who greeted me cheerfully. I knew she was nice and wasn’t worried about her spreading information about me on the set. I was just a background nurse, anyway.

* The other actors arrived and we all got to know each other a little. Working like this sparks some weird “friendships”, where you spend 8-12 hours sitting around or interacting with someone, so you pretty much have to talk and get to know each other a little. But then you leave and most likely never see them again. If we wanted to, we could exchange numbers or whatnot, but so far I haven’t met anyone on the same wavelength as me where issues like fun, humor and politics are concerned.

* At one point we were wheeling a battered female patient out of the OR on her mobile bed and I mentioned to Ellen Pompeo (one of the show regulars) “I used to actually do this for a living, and we would never have moved a patient without putting the bedrails up.” This is so they won’t slip out of bed while it’s in motion, and also for insurance purposes. It was repeated so often that it was an automatic recognition in a patient moving situation.

* Suddenly a little guy in green shorts with a happy-face button pinned on his shirt scuttled over and looked up at me. “That lady over there…”, he pointed to a thick older woman, “is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure our sets are authentic. She has been a nurse for 22 years. She has cleared this scene.”

* I was taken aback at his fervor and shrugged. “I’ll just be quiet then.” I really hadn’t meant anything but to help, and didn’t bring it up again.

* After the scene was shot, he slipped back over and looked up at me again. “She’s been in this business for 22 years.” He reiterated. I was surprised he was bringing this back up, as I had let it go immediately. I wondered if his mother had been a nurse and he had a reverence complex toward them or something. “I would watch what you say about stuff like that.”

* “No, thank you, that’s Ok.” I said with completely unsarcastic compassion, as if he had asked my forgiveness for being so rude.

* “I’m telling you this for your own good!”

* “No, that’s all right. Thank you.” I was unflappably nice.

* I hadn’t been the least molecule sarcastic or mean. I just responded to what he should have said, rather than what he did say.

* For the record:

* From the Federal Government on Patient Safety “Reduc[es] the risk of patients falling out of bed when being transported”

* From the Association of Registered Nurses:

“Specific needs of the patient should be assessed and appropriate interventions implemented during the transport phase. (7) Safety measures to be implemented during transport/transfer activities should include, but are not limited to,

* locking wheels on the transport vehicle and the patient’s bed during transfer activities;

* elevating side rails and using safety straps;”

* So, um, I’d get my money back on that “hundreds of thousands of dollars” chick, because she was wrong, but she’s most likely pretty cool and mellow sitting on those fat stacks of case, so they should actually just muzzle Happy Face Button, because he’s a dumbass, LOL.

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