Joanna Robinson

We also got a bunch of emails from people when I did my sort of like ode to Nurse Jessie in last week's episode.

I did not know that Ned Brower, who plays Nurse Jessie, was A, a former drummer in the band Rooney.

Really cool.

And then also became, for 13 years, he was first an EMT and then an ER nurse himself.

So he's been hired as... He's done some acting in his life.

He was on Dawson's Creek or some other things.

Was a drummer for Rooney.

Wild.

And then is one of the people that they hired who is not just an actor, but also there to sort of keep an eye on the medical accuracy of what's going on.

And I loved this quote from...

An interview he gave People magazine about this.

Quote, he was told, if you see anything that looks strange or out of place, let this person know.

Don't go blabbing all over set, undercutting directors and things.

So Ned Brower, Nurse Jessie himself, is supposed to sort of well actually a few things, but not on a constant annoying basis.

So he said that there's a few people around that.

And something that the actors have said is that when they're in the midst of sort of the more fraught, intensive medical procedure moments, those are usually not directed by the director of the episode, but they have medical professionals who are directing those specific moments of the episode.

So I thought that was really interesting as well.

Calling out stats and all sorts of stuff.

Clearly.

I love Nurse Jessie.