The Golden Days at Santa Monica General

Season III

Nora Vega MSN RN CCRN & Daniel LaRusso BSN RN CDN

Fourteen episodes. One winter. Six friends you will never forget.

On the first morning of the new year, Dr. Carter James Hale texts Tess Steinberg at one minute past six, the way he has for two years, and for the first time he doesn't write "I'm not asking." She answers in one minute. By nine o'clock the whole hospital knows.

Now the fourth floor is watching a love affair. Walter's board has a new column, HOW LONG?, a second mug appears on a counter nineteen floors up, and in the building they still walk a foot apart.

She has never let anyone take care of her. He has never once been told he did well. This winter, both of them learn.

From the first storm of the year to the edge of spring, the cases come through the doors: a fitness star drowning on dry land, a fisherman's "healthy" salt, a teacher who marched from Selma and can't feel the floor, a couple married sixty years with one broken heart between them, and a grandmother who will not miss her New Year table.

The medicine is real. The winter is warm. And when a brilliant woman from Carter's past comes from New York to watch him work, Tess has to decide what she saw.

The Golden Days at Santa Monica General is a hospital series, written by two nurses who have spent their careers at the bedside.

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