Thanks. I loved the other nurse - can't think of her name on the show - Juliana Margolies? I think I mangled that. Anyway, Mariska was *not* in her element on that one, IMO.
Carol Hathaway, played by Juliana Margullies...an absolutely adorable drop dead gorgeous woman...and right about my age, I think. She used to be the girlfriend of Ron Eldard, who played fireman "Shep" on the show, around Season 2.
Like I said previously - before the show turned into an in-kind contribution to the DNC, I used to watch the show every week. Many of the characters that I liked (Sherry Stringfield's Susan Lewis, Gloria Reuben's Jeannie Boulet, Anthony Edwards' Mark Greene, et.al) are gone. Sharif Atkins (Dr. Gallant) was KIA in Iraq late last season, which provided the perfect opportunity to throw in another gratuitous slam on the Iraq war, and it's just hard to keep interested, as a conservative, with any show that has both Danny Glover AND John Leguizamo on at the same time.
Why not bring in Michael Moore as a patient for bariatric surgery? Barbra Streisand as a singer in need of fixing her broken nose? Robin Williams seeking that wonder drug that all the druggies seem to want for free? May as well go all the way...