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Pradfanne t1_iu0ykwq wrote

Reply to comment by socalmd123 in The Good Nurse (2022) by ThrowawayThestral

It's based on a real story. Now I'm not sure how much of it is real, but if he has a real life kill count of 29 that he plead guilty too and it's assumed to be in the hundreds. Then the hospitals did fuck up big time.

It's not only Hollywood drama, it happened for real

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friendofelephants t1_iug4wok wrote

The way that the hospitals were portrayed protecting their own interests and not patients was accurate, but I agree with the above commenter that it wasn’t realistic how they portrayed her struggling financially that much. Could hardly afford shoes for her daughter, etc. Nurses do pretty well income-wise for themselves, and the movie made it seem like they are paid as much as retail workers.

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-lover-of-books- t1_iugy2m3 wrote

It's 2003, she is a single mom of two kids, she lives in a house in new york, lives on a single salary, has to pay a babysitter, nurses definitely weren't making bank back then, plus she had a medical condition that required expensive tests, specialists, and medications that all cost a lot of money.

So yea, I'd say the struggle was pretty accurate.

And in many states, they are making very little more than some retail places. Nurses in states like Florida still start out making on the $20s an hour.

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