I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.
And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my 9-5 job at the time. I managed an instrument room at a hospital in the Bronx.
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.
I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.
