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Hello!!! As many of you know, or may not know, I'm starting nursing school in January. I was wondering, have you ever had a crush :redpinkhe on a doctor you've met or on any of your peers or people who work at the hospital in which you do your clinicals? What can I say? I'm a HUGE romantic at heart!!!!!:p :1luvu:

I have observed that many(not all) doctor's cheat on their wives...I'm not sure I would want a doc for a husband for that reason.

I don't know if the % of doctors who cheat on spouses is higher than husbands in general. But there are a lot of docs in our town on wife #2 or #3. I know one pulmonologist who is retiring young (in his early 50's) and he is financially loaded. When asked how he did it, he says all you have to do is stay married to the same woman for life. This is ironic since one of his partners is on his fourth wife and has a whole new crop of kids to put through college. That guy is going to be working until he drops dead.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
if you're a romantic and unmarried, i'd recommend going into the army, navy, or air force nurse corps. you will find yourself in what we could call a "target rich environment."

unfortunately my experience with military men has been someone who's a big ball of crap (the guy) in pretty wrapping paper (the uniform).

doesn't mean i've rules them out, but i'm definitely more aware.

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I have observed that many(not all) doctor's cheat on their wives...I'm not sure I would want a doc for a husband for that reason.

I don't know if the % of doctors who cheat on spouses is higher than husbands in general. But there are a lot of docs in our town on wife #2 or #3. I know one pulmonologist who is retiring young (in his early 50's) and he is financially loaded. When asked how he did it, he says all you have to do is stay married to the same woman for life. This is ironic since one of his partners is on his fourth wife and has a whole new crop of kids to put through college. That guy is going to be working until he drops dead.

:chuckle I worked with a doctor like that....His oldest was my age and he had a second family with kids as young as 4. The only reason I can think that it is slightly higher for docs(in my opinion) is that they often spend more time at the hospital than they do at home. There are lots of hiding places for trysts also in a hospital. The last place I worked, there was a surgeon that got caught receiving um..how to say this nicely..."oral satisfaction" from an RN. The joke was that he was looking for the "head nurse":rolleyes: This is catty of me, but talk about being a cheap date. He was not punished severely at all, she got fired. Why risk your job for something like that?
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I know of a nurse (not me!!!) Who transfered into our department from another hospital and she went to work on a Dr. You could tell she was working it!! After a couple of months she started reelling him in and showed up one day w/ a big rock on her hand. After awhile, the power went to her head and bowled her over and the hospital transferred her out...Last I knew, they had gotten married. Rumor has it though, that's how he met his wife that he divorced for his new wife, she was a nurse too!

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This is a great post...

One of the family practice Doctors i worked for met his wife while he was still a resident. She was an RN. Now she is a Nurse Practitioner and in my opinion a very classy lady. Very smart, girl next door pretty. I know they have had their ups and downs but they are still married and should be given much credit!! He's a HOTTIE too. All of the pharmaceutical reps flirted with him and patients when leaving would be so infatuated with him and say "oh he is sooooo cute" LOL we always had a good laugh off the patients!

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This is a hilarious post. There is one really hot young doctor who works on the telemetry floor where I had 8 weeks of clinical last semester. We all just tried not to stare too much. He did flirt a little with a new-grad nurse on Telemetry who looked like a barbie-doll and she with him, which we thought was cute until we found out he has a wife of 8 years and 3 children at home. I loved the comment: "I know of a few women who went to nursing school not for an RN degree, but a MRS degree e Ha ha! As in Mrs. Doctor so and so..." because there are 1 or 2 in my class who I think are angling in that direction. I don't know from personal experience, but I do hear the nurses gossiping about such and such nurse and such and such doctor having an affair then getting married then surprise, surprise, he cheats on her with another nurse. I wonder how much that actually happens and how much is kind of urban legend though. I agree that with less than half of med school grads being male these days, our pool of eye candy is sadly dwindling, because a man in a white coat and stethoscope just does it for me. (P.S. my husband is starting his PA program this year through the military, so even though he won't have the MD after his name, I can live with it)

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(P.S. my husband is starting his PA program this year through the military, so even though he won't have the MD after his name, I can live with it)

Ah HA! So SNRachel can lust after the guy in uniform AND the guy in the white coat and still be on the up and up! Pretty good.

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HAHA. Not me, but I am married. However, we do a round of clinicals at the Naval hospital so we're talking mostly male patients in their early 20's, most of the single girls we're salivating before we even hit the floor.

And there's this one girl who is convinced she's going to snag a doctor. Well, she can dream. LOL

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Hmmmmm... so, in my day we dated freely and had a lot of candidates to choose from. But we were repressed by cultural and moral strictures. Which don't exist today. However, young women today are more committed to superficial relationships than we ever were, so they end up with fewer choices.

So... someone want to help me understand how this is a great step forward for our sex?

It is neither a step forward or a step backward. Its just different.

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