Nurse bashing, public view to a news item

[annmariern]

http://news.aol.com/health/article/its-better-to-be-a-bad-patient-actor/199619?icid=100214839x1210944416x1200656558

Read the comments, depressing & at the same time I know where some of them anyway are coming from having had a pts wife advocate for her spouse when my concerns were dismissed by his doc; he would have gone home with a K+2.3, mag of 1.4, cold turkey on high dose solumedrol. I had to ask if he wanted to order anything to correct the lytes, or deal with his DBP of 100-115. Or he wouldn't have.

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

I agree that we need to advocate for ourselves. I cannot believe some of the crap this guy was saying. He wasn't making any sense.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I agree that we need to advocate for ourselves. I cannot believe some of the crap this guy was saying. He wasn't making any sense.

In order for the article to attract interest, he had to embellish the details and make most events out to be more sensational than they really were. Of course, this is my opinion.

[ShayRN]

I only read today's page of comments.

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We - the public - do look at doctors as Gods . .. .haven't we as nurses wanted to tell a patient to switch doctors?

steph

I once had a patient and family speak to me about the upcoming open-heart procedure he was to have. Based on the recommendation of someone in their church they were going to have Dr. A do the procedure. They were all smiles when they asked me what I thought of him, now let me say, I wear my heart on my sleeve and am a HORRID liar. My face kind of looked like this:stone Dr. A has a long history of high infection rates and poor outcomes, but I couldn't say this to this lovely family. So instead, I said, Oh, well he is good. But when my father in law had his surgery I insisted on Dr. B. They got the message loud and clear. Dr. B did the surgery 2 days later and the guy had excellent outcome. (Dr. A has since lost privledges at the hospital.)