Cannot stand this MD

[DebRN06]

We have an MD at my facility that is treated like God. It drives me crazy what he gets... and gets away with. He has caused so much trouble in the past that the hospital actually PAYS for him to have his own RN with him on rounds. There is one other that gets this special treatment, too. They are from the same group.

Anyway, we are not allowed to let his pts leave the unit before he sees them. This has been the "rule" since I started. I guess one RN actually didn't realize a pt was his when CATH LAB came to get pt and she let pt go before MD saw pt. He caused a huge scene. I mean, really, it is more important "god" sees the pt than seeing if pt's freakin coronary arteries are blocked :smackingf.

Now, we have to have special "markers" on his pt's charts, night shift has to get his pts up, washed and in a chair before he arrives to the unit (which is normally between 7-9am). Night shift also has to have his charts lined up on the counter with the mar on top and a sign that says they are his pt's charts and NOT to remove.

Yes, he is the money-maker of the hospital... because 99% of his pts are from LTC facilities and he admits them for ANYTHING...then, they "live" in the hospital for weeks. I do not understand how he gets away with it!? What really makes me angry is how mgmt allows his behavior, in fact, they bend over backwards for him. CEO always backs up this doc and gives him what he wants. I don't understand why, or how it works. On our CEO's "about him" page it stresses his "STRONG FOCUS ON PHYSICIAN RELATIONS,"...nice...not RNs, or any other staff...just physicians.

If the hospital were not to tolerate his behavior, what can he do?? Nothing, right?? Send his pts to another facility, I guess, but the homes are close to the hospital, so there aren't really other choices, esp in an emergency. He seems to prey on the elderly that cannot make decisions for themselves and often family is not too involved and blindly trusts.

I did a search to see if he was ever reprimanded, but, unfortunately no. I did find on RateMd a few comments from pts/families that said he charged for visits and tests that were never done. I am positive this jerk does that kind of crap often. I also found online that this idiot got a DUI a few years ago and had crossed the median and hit another car head-on. I don't know if there were injuries. What happens when an MD gets a DUI?? Anything??

I had to vent. I cannot stand this man!! In fact, I often find myself hoping for a special place in hell for him, or looking forward to the day when he is a pt. Bad, I know, but I do.

[Riseupandnurse]

Yes, there is at least one in every hospital. Money SCREAMS, so they can too.

[Euskadi1946]

I'm reading these posts and I honestly cannot believe that in this day and age there are actually nurses who still put up with BS from doctors. C'mon people get a back bone and demand respect from your peers and the physicians. Nobody but nobody should allow ANYONE to disrespect them. If you don't get satisfaction from management or the chief of staff go to the state medical society and report these bullies!!! There is also the labor commission.

[babydoll99_99]

Some of us don't put up with it. The doc I mentioned starts yelling and I walk away. They call me back cause he is ranting and I tell him that when he can speak to me in a professional manner then we can have a conversation. Usually calms him down.....But I'll be darned if the next time he walks onto the unit it is the same thing all over again. Admin won't do anything about it so he feels entitled to do it. He has been on probation for things he has said to pts, but when it comes to nursing staff he can do whatever he wants.

I don't put up with it, but I won't put my pts in danger just because I don't want to speak to a jerk of a doctor. The way I see it, if the pts are ok I just ignore him and if I have to speak to him I demand respect to the point where my pts can still get what they need.

With the iron my pt was asymptomatic and said she didn't want it or I would have called him for the order and got yelled at, but if the pt is going to refuse anyway.....why bother. he was there to see her and couldn't be bothered to write the order. I figure I am covered.

It takes all kinds in this world and honestly nothing he says bothers me enough to go to any further than management with complaints. He has never threatened me or in anyway invaded my personal space, so I handle it the way I see fit. I have a backbone, I just don't see the need when he is just a bitter old man. Nothing I do is going to change him so I adress it at the time and place and leave it at that.

[Jamesdotter]

Back in the day...

When we had rotating interns, we occasionally encountered interns who seemed to think that because they had graduated from medical school they were entitled to treat the nurses like dirt or less. The fact that they hated our service (OB) didn't help. Also that the rotation was 20 days, 24 hours on (which usually turned into 30 to 36) and 24 hours (making that just 12, of course) off.

I used to go around repeating to myself the doggerel

"I do not like you. Dr Fell,

I don't know why and cannot tell,

But this I know and know full well,

I do not like you, Dr Fell."

We had a particularly obnoxious intern once whose name serendipitously rhymed with "Dr. Fell"!

[mc3, ASN, RN]

I think there is one at every hospital. The last one I had a run in with ended with me as the day nurse having to call Dr. Wonderful to let him know that the night nurse had given barium contrast for a CT scan prior to an ultrasound, which delayed the U/S for a day.

His response was "well, the night nurse has her head up her _______ and I bet you have your head up your _______ too." I politely informed that if he wanted to check for himself where my head was, I would be at the hospital for the next 10 hours and which unit he could find me working at. I never had problems with him again.

Anne, RNC:D

Good one!!!:yeah:

mc3:D