Do surgeons intimidate nurses?

[Anxious Patient]

The Husband of a Patient who accompanied his wife into the OR during a C-section recounts his observation of real fear from nurses towards the surgeons when a sponge went missing as the woman's abdomen was being sewn up.

http://www.healthbeatblog.org/2008/08/surgeons-and-su.html

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

OK there are 40 bazillion different doctors with 40 bazillion potential intimidating tactics, BUT WE have them outnumbered. Give the LOOK.

Leave them standing there with the goofy face while you tell the supervisor the count didn't match and Dr. Doflootchy didn't listen. You have my permission to use the speaker phone with the volume up.

No one can intimidate you. It is YOU who allow yourself to be intimidated, and as I said WE have them WAY outnumbered.

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

no nurse man or woman should be intimidate by any doctor. last week i walk to the nurses station while a doctor was yelling at a female nurse. when i said whats the problem , he looked at me and walked off. she was in tears.

this is where "code pink" needs to be called. everyone walks up silently, encircles the doc and silently but deadly the doc backs down 99.9% of the time. nurses, techs, men, women, housekeepers, secretaries need to reheorifice and announce & carry out code pink. watch each other's back.

[BBFRN, BSN, PhD]

this is where "code pink" needs to be called. everyone walks up silently, encircles the doc and silently but deadly the doc backs down 99.9% of the time. nurses, techs, men, women, housekeepers, secretaries need to reheorifice and announce & carry out code pink. watch each other's back.

this really works. it puts the spotlight on their behavior, and makes the accountable for it. if administration won't make them accountable, then it is the staff that must do it. i have never seen this tactic not work, and the results are long-lasting.

[lpnstudentin2010, LPN]

This really works. It puts the spotlight on their behavior, and makes the accountable for it. If administration won't make them accountable, then it is the staff that must do it. I have never seen this tactic not work, and the results are long-lasting.

It is exactly what kids are taught about not doing drugs. There is strength in numbers. It is taught to kids about bullies on the playground, why wouldnt it work for bullies in the work place to. It is easier to bully a single individual then a whole group of people