00:00Like I learned, I've never had major surgery before, nurses, I didn't know that they were angels walking on this earth, and that's what they were.
00:09I had cancer only about a year before I got the show, and so I really tried to bring a lot of the experience that I had with my healthcare professionals, particularly the nurses, into Dana.
00:20Is it hard at any point with that?
00:23No, I mean when I first walked onto the set I was like a little triggered by it, because after you have cancer all you do is go to the hospital.
00:30And so then I was only about six months out of going to the hospital when I got the job, and I was like, oh, I'm back in the hospital.
00:36But it went away really quickly.
00:38Wow.
00:39Yeah, that feeling of being a little averse to the set went away very quickly.
00:43The authenticity that you bring to it is pretty incredible.
00:47Thank you, thank you.
00:49What's the hardest medical term you've had to say on the show?
00:53Campalobacter.
00:54What?
00:55Campalobacter.
00:56What's a campalobacter?
00:57I think it's like some, maybe like bacteria in poop or something.
01:01I don't know.
01:02It's something horrible.
01:04It's like something really gross.
01:05Sometimes we have such stuff that's so gross.
01:08Well, I was talking to Scott, and he was telling me, I was like, so what's the medical emergency you want to handle next?
01:17A head, like your head is almost falling off your neck.
01:21It gets dislocated.
01:22Oh, my God.
01:22I want to handle scheduling.
01:25That's the one I want to handle next, scheduling.
01:27I don't want to see any more things.
01:29There was something I did already this season, and I told the producer that I thought I needed some jewelry for it.
01:34Like he needed to give me some diamonds.
01:37A push present?
01:37Oh, yes, exactly.
01:38Just like that.
01:39I said, Mike, I think I need some jewelry for that.
01:41You'll see.
01:42It's an episode, too.
01:42Is it that horrid?
01:44It's disgusting.
01:45It's disgusting.
01:47Yeah.
01:47And how do they prepare you?
01:50Like you're reading it in the script.
01:51Do you know exactly what it is?
01:53Yes, I do.
01:54It's very explicit.
01:55Go outside my body when it's happening because I've prepared myself to just go outside my body when it happens.
02:01Yep.
02:02How many times do you get home at night and you're like, there's fake blood on me?
02:07There's fake blood under my nails.
02:09You're at a restaurant having dinner with friends.
02:11You're like, there's blood.
02:12I'm used to it.
02:13I used to be a dancer and I wore a lot of body makeup and I would find like, you know, body makeup in my ears from doing Slave Girl and Aida like four months after the performance.
02:22Now it's finding fake blood in your ear.
02:23It's getting paid better to have like, you know, dye on my skin.
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