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Article: Medical alert; Asian actress Parminder Nagra has joined the cast of "ER," but it may be too little, too late.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 9, 2003
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Byline: Neal Justin; Staff Writer
"ER," like any good prime-time soap, feeds viewers a never-ending diet of juicy questions: Will the rebel medic defy authority and save the patient's life? How many students will the handsome intern sleep with? Who will survive a rare tropical disease spreading through the hospital?
But there's one question that the network would rather you not explore: Where are all the Asians?
It's an inquiry that's been made rarely in the hit's nine-year history. Maybe that's because viewers are used to seeing minority groups underrepresented on TV. Or perhaps it's because executive producer John Wells has a stellar ...