Would you marry a doctor?

no, never. i am a new nurse(11days) and i do not fancy doctors. Not medical doctors. maybe a plastic surgeon or a dentist, yes. lool

but it is rather tacky to go through nursing school for the sake of marrying a doctor. They are so overrated. i dont get it. I have never been attracted to any kind of doctor to be honest. something about them doesnt do it for me romantically.

I have a feeling that the OP might have spent some time reading the Harlequin Medical Romance novels!
http://www.eharlequin.com/store.html?cid=264

I would totally marry one. Why not, if they could understand my medical terminology and are in the same field as I am. Absolutely, some are unfriendly & arrogant, and I would never consider dating them. I have met both nice older doctors as well as young. An ***hole is and ***hole, even if they have a high status job.

Yes, yes.... But as Granny always said: MARRY FOR LOVE

My granny says "Marry for love...at least your first husband"

I think you nailed it perfectly....

Most surgeons I work with are realllly old I mean "grandpa status" so even thinking about dating makes me sick to my stomach , some are nice others are awful and need to retire .I met my husband at work before I got into healthcare and school I didn't work my ### off to marry a doctor , I have a beautiful family and wouldn't trade them for anything .Money does not give you happiness and material things do not replace true love you share with a husband that loves you back no matter what !!!!

I don't think the author of this original post wrote this the way that it was intended- at least I hope not! Everybody is jumping on her back in all of these responses. I'm going to cut her some slack and hope that it was an error in thought process and what she was trying to say or ask just didn't come out right. I simply can't believe that anybody would become a nurse just so they could hope to meet & marry a doctor. The sputum, vomit, diarrhea, urine, blood and other related funky smells & fluids would chase them away if they really weren't in it for the right reasons. That is my humble opinion at least. Nursing is no joke. Nursing is not like Greys Anatomy, and unfortunately, I believe far too many people go into the field not understanding that. Nurses don't go to work to hook up in hall closets & have steamy affairs. Nurses go to work & get pooped on, peed on, vomited on, do heavy lifting all day, & wear shapeless scrubs. If they are doing their job right, they can really make a difference in a patient's life or even save a life. A busy nurse doing his or her job right are busy with critical thinking and patient care. Hopefully, thinking about what doctor is available or marriage material isn't what is on his/her mind at work, or they should just go home. I wouldn't want that person to be my nurse.

My dad was a GP in solo practice. He worked way too hard and we never saw him. I decided I would never marry or even date a doctor for that reason. Since them I've met doctors who actually have lives outside of work, but they may be rare. I do know women who went into nursing to marry a doctor (one succeeded) but personally I consider the lifestyle suboptimal.