Docs who are actually willing to get their hands dirty.

[OutlawNurse86]

Oh...my...God....

I ain't usually one to post stuff like this but this...I mean...whoa...dude...never seen that before.

We have a new Doc in our facility, a family practice Doc. I recently found an excuse to sneak down to the ED to BS with some friends as I waited on them to send me a new admit. While I was leaving I saw them start to wheel my admit up to my floor. I walked along side them, just talking away with the pt and the guys with the stretcher. I noticed that the guy at the front of the stretcher was new, real nice though, then I saw his name tag...

Me: Hey Doc I can get this stretcher for ya if you want

Doc: Nah man it's cool, I got it.

That ain't nothin' I realize (although for around here it is), but there is more.

Pt was admitted for C-Diff. Doc was rounding the next day, stuck his head out the door and asked for some washrags and sheets...... Um...ok Doc... Pt had a code brown and the Doc was actually completely willing to assist in cleaning them up (he didn't, the techs came in though).

I'm still in shock. We have some good Docs around here, most of them will sit and BS with you once you get to know them, listen to what you have to say. I have never, in 5 years of employment in a hospital, seen a Doc actually willing to clean a pt... Wow.

Just had to share that. I think the planets must have been in proper alignment or something.

[CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN]

Wow...I'm impressed when I see a doc do a bp on a pt.

[Mike A. Fungin RN]

We have a hospitalist in our facility who has jumped in without being asked and helped assist with a turn, or grabbed supplies for someone. I just had to ask him once, "What did you do before medicine." He had been an med surg RN for six years.

We also have an anesthesiologist who responded to a difficult reintubation of a patient who had self extubated and vomited in our critical care unit. Doc was cool as a cucumber under pressure, got the tube in on the third attempt, kept everyone calm. Asked him the same question, what did he do before. Paramedic.

[mcknis]

In our ER some of the docs and mid-levels assist with small tasks from time to time. Occasionally will get them to do a discharge on a busy day and in the middle of a code if short staffed are helpful in assisting. Some have helped clean up a pt and some have helped pull a pt up in bed. Rare but occasionally you get a good set if hands around!

[JazzysMama]

I have worked with exactly one doctor who was like this, and he was a resident. I assisted with with a lumbar puncture on a neonate one night and he not only threw all his betadine swabs in the trash can, instead of one the floor like the other docs did, when the procedure was done he disposed of all his sharps and neatly wrapped up the remains of the equipment and threw it away. I about fell over on the spot! Turns out both his mother and his grandmother were ER nurses. That boy was raised right!

On the other hand I have worked with way too many holier-than-thous, including one who sat at the nurses desk loudly complaining because one of our very sicke premies wouldn't go ahead and die so he could go back to sleep. And the mother was holding the baby about 10 feet away, crying her eyes out. I wanted to smack him! (the charge nurse admonished him but he just rolled his eyes at her.)

Wow! I probably would have been fired that day! If I was that child's mother the DR would likely be joining my baby in the afterlife!

[Anisettes, BSN, RN]

WOOOOOOWWWWW!!!! Now I'm usually not one for violence but reading this, I swear I feel like jumping through this screen and into your memories so I can give that doc I swift kick in the neck!Sorry if i've offended anyone.

Offend? Honey, I love to give him a swift kick in a region that begins with an 'N' too, but it rhymes with putz.

[dcarriv]

we have doctor like this where i work. he worked during med school as a nursing assistant and huc. he didnt even have to pay for med school, his dad who was also a doctor did. he has put pts on bedpans, commodes and will help with anything if asked. another story is when my mother in law had surgery, her surgeon pulled the ng and foley. i was amazed.

[OutlawNurse86, BSN, RN]

It's so rare around here that one time when a new hospitalist helped us pull a patient up in bed, the whole unit talked about it for a week.