Am I Only one who is irritated by doctors and medical shows?

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I am not even a nurse yet, but my short time in the hospital as aide made me see how much nurses do and how smart they are about patient care and how little doctors are even around and sometimes honestly they seem to just not get what is actually going on. Sometimes they actually seem pretty clueless...

Yet somehow medical shows continue to portray the situation unfairly. I actually got into a small disagreement with someone about the show scrubs. They said all in all it was one of the better ones, but one of the nurses makes a comment about never going to college (then she couldn't have been a nurse) and their is a particularly irritating scene where a doctor fires a nurse. you also see the doctors sending the nurses to new assignments?

Any way i know it is just tv, but it upsets me because so many people are just ignorant

to what nursing is all about.

I know I was. I wanted to be a doctor mostly because I wanted to challenge gender sterio types, but one stay in the hospital changed my perspective took a 180. the nurses are the ones taking care of the patients!

Any way I don't want to bash doctors but I think maybe we need a new outlook on the way we view the healthcare team.

Specializes in CICU.

I did have a patient say she wanted her primary doc to start her IV instead of me... I was like, I don't think that you do...

I do wish we had the nice, seafoam green linens like the Salem hospital on DOOL... And that there was only one room in the whole place...

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

I did have a patient complain once because I wasn't at her CT scan; she was very surprised to hear that I did not personally run the machine.

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I'm watching Greys right now and Bailey just said "he'a hypertensive, get his pressure back up!!" I'm a new nurse but I don't think that is right??

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I had alot of respect for Dr. Oz in the beginning. He was down-to-earth and a welcome source of realistic medical info. He apparently IS a respected cardiac surgeon.

HOWEVER, all he seems to do these days is promote diet after diet after diet. How can one person find so many diets to espouse?

He's Oprah's choice for America's doctor so if she says it he must be GOD.

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.
I'm watching Greys right now and Bailey just said "he'a hypertensive get his pressure back up!!" I'm a new nurse but I don't think that is right??[/quote']

Sure it wasn't "hypotensive"? ;)

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Specializes in Pedi.
I did have a patient complain once because I wasn't at her CT scan; she was very surprised to hear that I did not personally run the machine.

There was an episode of ER in one of the last seasons where the MDs transport the patient to MRI on a metal stretcher and the metal stretcher flies through the air with the patient still attached to it and the stretcher is suspended in the air stuck to the MRI machine with the patient between the stretcher and machine. Um... ok? Let's start with the unlikelihood of an MD transporting a patient... on ER, they also run the machine.

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Sure it wasn't "hypotensive"? ;)

I rewound it and it was clearly hypertensive. I'm sure the actress misspoke but it is funny all the same.

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Specializes in Med Surg.

My favorite--on a Sy Fy channel movie I learned that the cure for hypoglycemia is insulin.

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My favorite--on a Sy Fy channel movie I learned that the cure for hypoglycemia is insulin.

Haha great idea!

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I don't watch any of these modern shows.

Do medical TV shows have the machines that go "blip" anymore?

Old TV medical shows always seemed to have at least one machine that went "blip" chirping all the time.

I never get tired of The Machine that Goes Ping!

I know it's been posted before but it's SO classic.

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It's because of shows like this, people like my mother-in-law, who have never worked a day in their lives and sit at home eating bonbons make comments like...you're not a doctor, you're not even a nurse...lvns change bedpans and that's all...I have no problem changing bedpans but I can do a little more than that... Just saying.

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It's the SIDE RAILS!!!! That always gets me.

I can handle the O2 tubing wrong. The MD giving meds. Pronouncing med names wrong. Make-up and perfect hair on a dying pt.

I just can't stand the side rails down. It's nursing 101.

Nurses cannot intubate where I work. Must be a facility thing.

LMAO!!!! I jump on that too! Especially with the bed all the way up!

Posting from my phone, ease forgive my fat thumbs! :)

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