After reading some of other threads, a theme of nurse-doctor dating/marrying prevails...
I thought we were past that...maybe not.
Reminds me of the throwback nurses of the 1950's and 1960's who were gah-gah over the television characters Dr. Kildare and Dr. Ben Casey...
...or the nurses of the 1970's who cooed over the television character Dr. Marcus Welby and also actor James Brolin...(Forgive I can't remember if James Brolin Performed in TV program Marcus Welby, MD or Medical Center)...
I thought we were all past that...
I can remember some women, yes women, admitting to entering the nursing profession in order "to meet and marry a doctor."...
I don't get it.
Are we still salivating the ancient fantasies of the past?
I was helping a secretary stamping a chart the other day andthe machine stopped working for some unknown reason. Later, A plastic surgeon used it and suddenly it worked. The secretary asked how did he fixed that, and he answered "Ten years of schooling" with his face up. So annoying.
Im not so sure nurses wanted to ever marry them. Sure, every hospital had the old scandal where a nurse and doctor got together, sometimes while one or both were still married to someone else. My goal would never to be married to a degree. Its got to be because the person is a good partner.
I would never marry a doc, who would want to put up with that ego 24/7.A dentist might be a way better catch.
When I was in pharmacy school, I had a few classes with dental students. Remember those kids in high school that nobody really liked but people hung around with them because it was cool to be seen with them? That's what a huge percentage of the dental students - both male and female - were like.
I once overheard one male student say to another, "I'm sure glad I'm not in pharmacy school because the girls don't look like good (cat)." :angryfire Considering how much some of my classmates slept around, he may have been totally wrong, but in any case, I wouldn't want someone like that working on my teeth. These people were megalomaniacs long before they got to organic lab, which was my first encounter with them.
And a few years after I graduated, a black female dental student at this same school said she was getting racist, sexist, threatening e-mails and it didn't take long to figure out she was sending them to herself. She was expelled immediately upon this coming to light.
I am married, however I can't imagine choosing someone because of their occupation. Maybe my age is showing but I really think it is important to be with someone who you enjoy being with and can count on. JMO.
i'm really disappointed on how everyone is categorizing doctors into being awful. my mom married a doctor but that's definitely not why she went into nursing. i love my father so much. was he at work a lot? of course. do we, as nurses, have to work more hours then we would like sometimes? sure. there are some occupations out there for doctors that aren't as on-call. but to stereo-type them all in one boat for sleeping around, not being at home and being a slime-ball i think is totally wrong. but look at the nurses out there. they can also be just as flirty and conniving. i would hope that most of you wouldn't just go hunting for you husband because of his occupation. hopefully you let the lord guide you in who you should spend the rest of your life with. it never should be about status.
I've gotta agree with Lauren07 and with EMTastic. It's not about Dr or not a Dr, it's about who they are as a person. Maybe lots of Drs do fit the stereotype we see here, but many don't. My brother's a dr and is one of the most committed family men I know and both my SIL and my niece are lucky to have him...and the Dr's salary doesn't hurt anything either.
As for me, I may or may not ever date a Dr., but if I do it won't be because he's a Dr and I won't turn someone down for that reason either. I'd much rather decide based on what's inside.
The first thing my grandmother told me when I told her I was training to be a nurse was "Oh, good, you'll be able to find yourself a nice doctor husband".
Can't imagine a woman today who thinks a doctor is a good catch. Even if they have hospitalists to cover inpatient, they are still on-call for phone. They don't make nearly as much money as people think. Most have had 2 or more wives plus children with each. The "glory days" of doctors is pretty much past. Or are we just getting smarter?
are you serious? I am an RN but both of my brothers and my sister are all physicians. NONE of them take call. All of them make over $450,000/year. None of them were ever married before their current marriage.
I don't get why nurses still like to bash Doctors.
Specializes in ICU, hospice, MS/tele, ED, corrections.
I don't know who I'll end up marrying, I'm 34 and as time goes on I realize that there is soooo much more to a person than meets the eye...I'm a second quarter nursing student and haven't been around docs very much so I have no idea what they're like, except what I've seen on Scrubs. :chuckle
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You've got to admit, that is seriously funny.