Doctors and Nurses Gone Wrong....

[live4today]

Okay, one of my pet peeves (among several in the healthcare field) is the superiority complex doctors tend to think they should have over nurses.

I'd like to hear other nurses experiences with this subject matter.

How many nurses believe doctors are superior to them?

How many nurses continue to think they are not just as important to the patients healthcare process as the doctors, therefore "cowtow" to doctors when they speak?

How many nurses are afraid of doctors....and why?

When will nurses STOP being afraid of doctors?

When will nurses begin to see themselves along with doctors as two members of the patients healthcare team, and not feel subordinate to the doctors?

Do you experience a difference with the new female docs today who think they have to assert themselves for fear we will not recognize them as doctors or confuse them with being nurses?

What say you? Share please.

[Pretzlgl]

Oh, OK. I thought we were talking performing equal jobs. Of course we are all equal as human beings. And by no means do I think that they are superior to us just because of their education. Their jobs are different than ours, but not better.

[RN~in~CT]

Originally posted by lisaloulou

Of course MDs are "equal" to nurses. Just because they have less experience with patients, I see no reason to look down on them! And, the trauma of their early lives as upper class males with rich fathers who drove them into the field; stunting their interpersonal skills and shortening their effective youths,saddling them with tremendous debt for the rest of their natural lives in a sea of governmental paperwork should cause us to show some compassion. The one day that they see that they have a vacuous wife, three kids in college majoring in body art-each with a new car, a thirty year mortgage,a blonde bimbo mistress with a taste for diamonds and a big mouth ,student loans, 50K overhead per month with the new office,a couple depositions for the grand jury looming,a heavy scotch habit and only the potential for a few more years of slavery until stroke,heart attack or alzheimers claims them and they will be patients under us AND medicare....well of course they are going to be prone to temper fits......poor things.

At 67 I will still be a here, turning watering and feeding yet another generation of "great healers" wondering whatever became of the good old days when social security gave out more than my poor old tired back does. As their red rimmed eyes gaze up at me from their sickbeds, and I find that one last,lonely vein to access for their morphine PCA, they are gonna mumble quietly and almost imperceptibly.....thank GOD for nurses. :)

[SmilingBluEyes]

Way to go, lisalou...

a bit extreme, but not that far off the mark. MORAL??

WE ARE ALL HUMAN hey???