Nurses?
Models? September 22, 2022 -- When I first put up my web site www.nursemind.com with numerous images of nurses (by a professional artist I'd hired) I got a surprising amount of blowback from folks who didn't like them. Here is why their opinions are ill-considered. My policy regarding images of nurses is to shun the typical marketing blather. Unlike most nursing-related web sites, our images are not of fashion models in tight scrubs. Instead, the idea is to portray people as they really are. Some are fat. Many are non-white; indeed, ours is a majority-minority profession. The world must learn to accept us however we look. We are proud of what we do and what counts is the quality of our work, not the svelteness of our physiques. That big Black lady is doing a hard job and she's doing it with intelligence and skill. (Of course, she's running our nursing app on her smartphone.) Perhaps she's saving somebody's life. I hope that's the message that people get from the image.
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798
As a counter-example, consider Nurse Jackie (played by Edie Falco).
In the TV series, she wears white scrubs (only students wear white
though Jackie is supposed to be a grizzled veteran) and instead of
scrubs pants she wears a tight white skirt. I have never, not once,
seen a nurse dressed that way. TV audiences may like to see that,
but they won't on the NurseMind web site.