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Expect "sponge bath", "raising temperatures" and "racing pulses" jokes. See also [[Naughty Nurse Outfit]] for when a nurse's outfit is deployed specifically for sexification purposes, and the [[Florence Nightingale Effect]] for nurse/doctor-patient relationships.

Unfortunately for people who expect this trope to be [[Truth in Television]], anyone who has ever been to a real hospital will notice that the nurses are more concerned with their jobs than their appearance. They will be wearing little if any makeup, and will always be in plain old scrubs, which are nowhere near as appealing as the nurse outfits in TV/magazine land (or the duds favored by their counterparts in [[Hello Attorney|the legal profession]], for that matter) and you'll almost never see a nurse on the job with her hair done up like they always do on TV. The fanciest "style" you will likely ever see is a simple ponytail, for three good reasons: first, many patients are allergic to the chemicals in hair products; second, you don't want to have to rejigger a hairdo because you accidentally dangled the end into something gross, and third, it's ''extremely'' poor form to have to wipe hair out of your face while you're trying to save someone's life.

Unfortunately for people who expect this trope to be [[Truth in Television]], anyone who has ever been to a real hospital will notice that the nurses are more concerned with their jobs than their appearance. They will be wearing little if any makeup, and will always be in plain old scrubs, which are nowhere near as appealing as the nurse outfits in TV/magazine land (or the duds favored by their counterparts in [[Hello, Attorney!|the legal profession]], for that matter) and you'll almost never see a nurse on the job with her hair done up like they always do on TV. The fanciest "style" you will likely ever see is a simple ponytail, for three good reasons: first, many patients are allergic to the chemicals in hair products; second, you don't want to have to rejigger a hairdo because you accidentally dangled the end into something gross, and third, it's ''extremely'' poor form to have to wipe hair out of your face while you're trying to save someone's life.

Even in the cases where this trope is [[Truth in Television]], there's not a lot of sexy activity going on. Nurses see you when you look and feel your worst. They watch you vomit, clean your catheters and bedpans, jab you with sharp needles, and are prone to sticking uncomfortable things in various orifices. Finally, there is really nothing pleasant about genital or rectal examinations. [[Reality Ensues|Just because you might be naked does not mean anything fun is about to happen.]]

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* Almost any hospital-based series, especially as it approaches soapdom, will depict a staff of impossibly attractive doctors and nurses, to the point where you'd expect people in town to be injuring themselves on purpose just to go there.

* ''[[ER]]'' (George Clooney's character in particular was treated in-show as the resident heartthrob.)

* ''[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Dr.~~_Kildare~~ Dr. Kildare]'', especially the Richard Chamberlain series. Chamberlain later came out of the closet as gay.

* ''[[wikipedia:Dr. Kildare|Dr. Kildare]]'', especially the Richard Chamberlain series. Chamberlain later came out of the closet as gay.

* ''[[Casualty]]'' has quite a few.

* [[Whoniverse]] examples:

** ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'': Harry Sullivan, Martha Jones and Rory Williams

** ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Harry Sullivan, Martha Jones and Rory Williams

** ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'': Owen Harper

*** ''[[Torchwood Miracle Day (TV)|Torchwood Miracle Day]]'''s Dr. Vera Juarez. Walking down hospital corridors with her long legs, perfect hair, low cut dress, and high heels, she looks like a model walking the runway.

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== Theatre ==

* Old Vaudeville shows often had a scene where an attractive woman in a nurse's uniform would walk across the stage, prompting the male cast members to call out: "[[Hello Nurse]]!". This makes this [[Older Than Television]]. (And now you know.)

* Old Vaudeville shows often had a scene where an attractive woman in a nurse's uniform would walk across the stage, prompting the male cast members to call out: "[[Hello, Nurse!]]!". This makes this [[Older Than Television]]. (And now you know.)

** See the "doctor sketch" in [[Neil Simon]]'s ''[[The Sunshine Boys]]'' for a good reenactment of this bit.

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== Western Animation ==

* The [[Trope Maker]] [[Hello Nurse]] from ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]''.

* The [[Trope Maker]] [[Hello, Nurse!]] from ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]''.

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' movie had a sexy young doctor named Dr. Kayhill, (although Fry just called her Dr. Good and Sexy) who - despite her insistence that her attractive nature didn't make her a bimbo - was in fact a [[The Brainless Beauty|bimbo]].

* Mrs. Dr. Possible from ''[[Kim Possible]]''. And during one episode she had [[Alpha Bitch|Bonnie]] as a student.

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