Doctors getting angry??

I'll bet everyone sees this either during school or within a year of graduating.

I think this story has been posted before.

My attitude is still the same, I don't care if I step on some self-righteous toes.

Yeah, I'm not going to let whether or not an MD is going to get mad affect my day. They don't care if they make me mad, why should I worry about them?

But there are other ways to get back at them besides screaming. Like calling for every little thing. WHere I have worked, and work now, we write up ill-mannered MD's. We finally got one to leave because he had hacked off too many staff members who threatened to quit.

Threw a scalpel at a nurse? If that really happened, I would press charges and complain to the state medical board. I hope someone did!

This is true. The doctor isn't going to lose any sleep over you after he/she behaves badly. Therefore, no nurse should lose any sleep over it, either. I absolutely hate when a nurse starts crying or shaking after being on the receiving end of a tongue-lashing. It's time to stand up for oneself in a tactful manner.

My packaged response to a childish tantrum is "You are pretty puny, you shouldn't have such a hard time getting over yourself" as I walk away/hang up.

A friend of mine was yelled at and humiliated for asking a doctor a question. Chairs flung across the nurses station, calling pharmacy and declaring the "stupid nurse" had a question, throwing everything in his pockets across the romm while attempting to find a pen.. really bad deal. She wrote him up, and he was ordered to go to anger management classes or lose his position with the hospital. I guess he has been nothing but polite and helpful since then...:chuckle

~BlueBug

Newsflash, this just in. Obnoxious, rude, condescending doctors.....film at 11.

I've seen a doc or two who definitely need some therapy or a good right hook to the jaw. Mostly though, the docs I work with are respectful and pleasant to work with. I don't get upset when a doc freaks out. I find it rather amusing to see a grown man throwing a phone across the nurses' station because it didn't work. That'll bite him in the ass soon enough.

I've never been "yelled at" by a doctor. Most of the docs I work with are great, but they do get upset. An example would be a doctor recently wrote for us to record wound vac drainage in our I&O's and wrote it every day for three days until he finally got upset that we couldn't seem to follow this order. Doctors are human too and when we're not doing our job - usually because we're busy, short staffed and overworked, they have a right to be angry - but not a right to abuse and humilate. Fortunately it's rare where I work.

Not that I work with saints, some definitely have personalities I don't like, but they do know how to for the most part get angry appropriately.

I too have the skills to listen and respond.