Did you marry a doctor?

Jensmom7, BSN, RN · Sep 22, 2015

Didn't marry a doctor but getting ready to put one thru med school. His dad & I do sorta look at that as a retirement plan, lol. He should be able to afford a nice ALF/NH for us

The heck with that-he should be able to afford to keep you in your own home with 24 hour caregivers!!

elkpark · Sep 22, 2015

This used to actually be a pretty common phenomenon, but that was a long time ago. I'm pushing 60; my father was an MD, and my mother as well as the wives of many of the other physicians we knew had been RNs who met their husbands at work (typically when they were residents). From my experience growing up (the inside view of living with an MD), there's no way I would ever be interested in marrying an physician just for the sake of marrying a physician.

allnurses Guide · Sep 22, 2015

Many docs marry other docs while in med school or residency . . . . which I think is crazy. You both are going to be too busy to raise kids!

All the docs I work with are mostly absent from their family's lives. A kid has a dance recital, dad gets called to a delivery of a baby. Etc.

Our docs work in their clinics, deliver babies, rotate in the ER, work in surgery . . . .. and with the new requirements for electronic medical records are busier than ever just trying to keep up with charting.

(I work in a rural setting).

I'd never marry a doc. As a matter of fact, now that I think of it, most of them are divorced and one is on his way to being divorced.

DowntheRiver · Sep 22, 2015

I married a Geologist, and a sexy one at that.

We have nothing professional in common and I like it that way.

imintrouble, BSN, RN · Sep 22, 2015

You might have wanted to make that more clear in your OP. Because looking for love at work is a no no & isn't very funny.

Especially for your co-workers who have to witness the mating dance.

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Sep 22, 2015

And once again, I quote Ellen DeGeneris:
"If you have to say 'just kidding' (or any version thereof), you really aren't".
Besides, this is the 21st century. Who's your mom, Cherry Ames? Sue Barton?

I love this so much!

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Sep 22, 2015

Especially for your co-workers who have to witness the mating dance.

So true! We don't want to watch you following (stalking?) any doctors trying to get a date. Just, no.

calivianya, BSN, RN · Sep 22, 2015

So true! We don't want to watch you following (stalking?) any doctors trying to get a date. Just, no.

Of course we want to watch! I like a good train wreck. It's quality entertainment.

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Sep 22, 2015

Of course we want to watch! I like a good train wreck. It's quality entertainment.

Lol. Well then I'm in the minority, I don't. Stalk the doctor outside of work.

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Sep 22, 2015

OP, let me tell you a story. This is a true story & it happened to yours truly.

I was working at a county jail. I was new there & a CO asked me to go out after work with him & his friends. I said yes & went out to a club. We all drank & I thought had fun. Well I went back to his place & passed out. I woke up early the next morning & got ready for work & left.

Days go by & then my bosses call me into a meeting. I have no idea what this is about. They sit me down & tell me that this same CO who invited me out is now claiming I am stalking him. Well I come back to work with pages upon pages of texts & phone call records that show he was calling & texting me back (there were also videos that could prove I wasn't following him around the jail). But because my bosses were horrible, they sided with corrections (him). I kept my job but realized two things:

1) My bosses sucked

2) Don't flirt where you work

This could very well happen to you.

Wrench Party · Sep 22, 2015

Nope, married a non-competitive software engineer who works in academia with relaxed hours of the 10-6ish variety, M-F. Works great for our critters and my weird nursing hours.

I could never marry a doctor- our egos would clash way too much over dumb things.

f1j1nurse · Sep 22, 2015

You might have wanted to make that more clear in your OP. Because looking for love at work is a no no & isn't very funny.

OrganizedChaos even though I'm totally guilty of doing this (I wasn't looking but it happened) I totally agree with you, work and personal life should be separate. Even though it all worked out for the better in the end (for us) it doesn't always happen that way and I did leave that workplace voluntarily to go work elsewhere.