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With all of the medical TV shows on now it’s hard to believe that they all owe their start to MASH. This groundbreaking series paved the way for many other such programs. Through the years programs such as ER had people changing their plans so they could stay home on Thursday night. And what’s a medical show without some beautiful and talented nurses? Check out this list of Top 10 TV nurses then and now.

1. Veronica Callahan, in the new series Mercy, played by Taylor Schilling, is a nurse home fresh from Iraq and has to fight multiple inner demons. One such demon is alcoholism.
2. Samantha Taggart (Linda Cardellini) on ER now in syndication plays a tough independent mom raising her son Sam on her own. She ends the series in a relationship with Gates (John Stamos).
3. Christina Hawthorne, (Jada Pinkett Smith) in the title role in HawthoRNe. Jada plays this role brilliantly as the strong head nurse in the hospital. She doesn’t always follow the rules, but she does what she thinks is right and some how convinces others that she’s right.
4. Carla Espinosa, (Judy Reyes) plays a very funny nurse in Scrubs and wife to Turk. She makes no apologies about whom she is. I think many women can relate to her when she lays down the law to her husband.
5. Nurse Jackie, (Edie Falco) played a stressed out ER nurse in this Showtime series appropriately called Nurse Jackie. Unlike other hospital shows this dark comedy plays up nurse Jackie’s flaws and mistakes while telling the story of New York City’s All Saints’ Hospital.
6. Christina Moore played by Candy Sullivan in the new series HawthoRNe. Co-starring with Jada Pinkett Smith, Sullivan holds her own and has stolen several scenes. Sullivan is one to watch in this great new drama.
7. Chloe Payne on Mercy played by Michelle Trachtenburg (Gossip Girl) is new to the series and is trying to catch on to what is happening at the hospital. Her innocent nature lends to an endearing character.
8. Margaret ‘Hot lips” Houlihan, (Loretta Swit) No list of nurses would be complete without this ground breaking role in MASH. Margaret was a major in the Army during the Korean War and was able to do her job while still keeping her femininity. No other nurses were really brought to the forefront in this historical, long-running series.
9. Carol Hathaway on famed ER played by Julianna Marguilies played the head nurse keeping track of the other nurses. While often scorned by other nurses because she had to make some tough decisions. Her on again off again romance with Doug (George Clooney) kept fans glued to their seats every Thursday night on NBC.
10. Abby Lockhart played by Maura Tierney on ER was a complex character. She played a nurse and a medical student on ER most recently involved with Luca, a doctor played by Goran Visnjik. Her character was there until the end of the series on NBC.

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