Do doctors really yell at you, and get away with it?

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I was asked in my interview for nursing school to rank the level of importance of the following things from 1-10. And they asked things like "your patient isnt eating", "your classmate takes money from a patient during clinicals", and one of them said "the doctor yells at you". I ranked it the lowest because I figured he'd get over it.

But the thing is: I began to wonder how often that happens, why did they ask me if it isnt something Im certain to run into more than once?

Cant you just report the doc? I mean, do they get away with that sort of thing??

I can see if you work in their family practice clinic maybe, but what about a hospital setting?

Thanks for your responses.

[hazyblue]

I didn't get yelled at but the intensity of this certain doctor's statement was so high my ears hurt.

I voiced out a complaint regarding new protocols to this doctor/chief-of-clinics. I found the new tons of paperwork as impractical. In the end, it appeared that I'm just a lazy person. I won't even be surprised if by tomorrow it would be seen that the whole nursing service are a bunch of lazy people.

*sigh* And I hated myself for blushing when she implied I was being lazy...it's like admitting guilt. But that is not the case, the paper works are too much for an emergency room. They can't expect us to do our new set of paper works and their paper works and be on the move in case something happens. However I'm just shy gullible type and had kept silent after being reprimanded.

The only saving factor for me was that the said doctor stayed afterwards for a few minutes which allowed my rationality to return and use the impertinence/redundancy of the additional data as reason of complaining. She listened but I still could feel the impression she first had on me was still there. *sigh*

I'd like to say I'm lazy but by that time I already saw the line between doctors and nurses. Particularly a military personnel and a civilian employee in a military setting....

When she left, my seniors told me that I shouldn't have voiced out my opinions to that person because all those protocols were that said person's ideas. That and I should just go through the chief nurse if I have a say on the other department.

In short, doctor's can get away because they usually are chief.

[mazy]

I worked with a doctor who yelled all the time on the phone. But it was funny because he would start yelling about something and while he was doing it he was explaining why he was yelling "I don't/do want you to do/not do X because it will cause x, y, z to happen so we need to do Y!" None of the other docs did that, if they were mad they'd just scream and yell and make you feel stupid.

It was a great learning experience and even though I really hated it, I got to the point with him that it was just loud dialogue -- we ended up working pretty well together.

I have a friend who is a doc in AZ, she yelled at a nurse and got in a lot of trouble because of it. Then I yelled at her. Lesson learned.

[nursel56]

I kind of like that, Mazy. "Info-yelling" lol. It's never fun to get yelled at, but if it's going to happen anyway, might as well learn something. :)

[Flying ICU RN]

The last time the chief surgeon yelled at me, I snapped this picture with my cell phone.