Are all Dr.'s like this?

[hotnurse]

hello everyone! this site is great! i'm so glad i found it. you guys crack me up. i will graduate from nursing school in august and i currently work at a children's hospital part-time. i'm just wondering if there are actually any dr.'s who really respect nurses. so far, i haven't seen anything but cocky ones. they don't seem to respect the nurses for all that they do. it really infuriates me that the nurses are there day in and day out caring for the patients, and the drs come in for 5 minutes and act like they are sooooo superior. i suppose i'll get used to their attitudes over time but right now it really disgusts me. to me, they are people who just happen to choose medicine as their career. i don't get it! so, are there really nice ones? are the older ones or younger ones easier to deal with? and, as a nurse, how do you actually earn their respect? thanks for your feedback. i'm glad i found you guys! :)

[grentea]

As a nursing student, I don't really have any problems dealing with doctors. It's rare that they even acknowledge my presence in the room. I find that the younger doctors in their twenties or thrities will actually talk to me and even go so far as to explain procedures to me, which always a pleasant surprise, but when it comes to how most doctors treat me, I might as well be a light fixture. I remember once I was having a conversation with a patient and I was doing some education too and the doctor walked in the room and the oddest thing happened. In a phenomeneon which initially struck me as just plain wierd but I'm sure I'll see happen over and over again, the doctor didn't even acknowledge that I was there, interrupted me mid-sentence, and just started talking with the patient who of course diverted their full attention to the doctor. It was like I was in a freeze-frame scene on a TV show or something. I swear I had a little existential crisis because it was just so wierd and I honestly thought, "Well maybe, I really in fact am not here". Anyways....I'm just hoping for better communications with doctors in the future. I think we can learn from each other and thankfully it seems like the younger generation of doctors are more open to that.

[meownsmile, BSN, RN]

OH i think there are always going to be some doc's that are great to work with and others you'd rather shove out the window.

We have some that you can joke with, talk with and they understand where you are coming from as long as you know what they want. Others that you couldnt satisfy with a full syringe of Valium. You learn which ones you can work with,, and those are the ones whos routines you remember, the others think you should remember their routines and think by browbeating it will make you remember, but what they dont understand is you could care less because they dont have respect for anyone. They reap what they sow. They pay in the long run with what they consider dumb questions, and sometimes you ask the dumb questions just to piss them off. They deserve to be pissed off if they act like that.