doctors treatment of nurses??

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Does anyone work where the doctor's actually treat the nurses well? You know, friendly considerate etc. In my 18 years as a nurse I have worked in two different hospitals where the docs were actually pretty nice, and on the rare occasion they did act like a jerk, they would usually apoligize. Just FYI both of these facilities were small hospitals. Coincidence?

Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
I've come into contact with a few rude doctors and I've only been working for 1 month. (I graduated in August). Doctors on my floor expect nurses to give up a chair for them. And I've been called stupid for asking a doctor to clarify an order. He had REALLY bad handwriting and a very thick accent. I asked him to clarify an abbreviation that he used and he called me stupid! Now, I thought I was ensuring patient safety by making sure that I as the nurse could read and understand the order but this doctor couldn't be bothered by questions.

Sorry for the rant. This particular incident happened 2 days ago.

*** I would have knocked that doc into next week.

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I totally agree. The first time a doc say's I'm stupid, I will stand up to him and give him a moment of pause to reconsider his verbal abuse. I have seen a number of doc's be totally unprofessional, and it irks me to no end how unprofessional this industry can be. When I was an airline pilot, it was rare to see anything but pure professionalism out of everyone.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

I work in a small hospital and we have one doctor and she is the greatest. Professional, patient with pts and families and laughs and kids with everyone.Good doc too.

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Hey does anyone know of any good nursing schools in nyc i mean which are easy to get into ?

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Specializes in telemetry, med-surg, home health, psych.

Our Docs are professional, friendly, and great to work with.....of course, they are psychiatrists so that might be the reason !!!!

Our staff MD's are completely different, they can be quite rude, demanding and totally different then the psych docs.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Cardiac Floor.

I remember how hard nursing school was, sometimes I wonder if they're rude b/c of all of those tough years of school, and maybe the job's not what they thought it would be, and they feel stuck?:confused:

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Specializes in telemetry, med-surg, home health, psych.
I remember how hard nursing school was, sometimes I wonder if they're rude b/c of all of those tough years of school, and maybe the job's not what they thought it would be, and they feel stuck?:confused:

Nawwwww, they get respect, pts. look up to them (Dr's think they are God, Surgeons know it) get to intimidate staff, great hours, long vacations, loads of money, etc, etc, etc.....need I say more?:D

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Yep, except for the great hours. Many doc's I know work 70-80+ hours per week. One doc that I was talk to recently (who happened to be one of the really nice doc's) were talking about flying airplanes. I told him I could teach him how, but he said that even though he always wanted to learn to fly, he worked so much he was always tired and wouldn't feel safe. He works 80 hour weeks usually.

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Specializes in telemetry, med-surg, home health, psych.

We work long hours, too, but don't mistreat staff and pts.

(at least I hope we don't)

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Oh I am not making any excuses for doc's bad behavior. I certainly am not blaming their rudeness on long hours. I am just saying that with all the perks they have, working good hours is not one of them. Many work far more hours than most nurses do. However, this is indeed no excuse to be rude to people.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, High Risk L&D, PHN, Hospice RN,.

I have been an RN for 34 years, I have been cussed at, yelled at, and seen objects thrown at nurses by physicians. Until we stand on our on as nurses "united" which we have never been physicians will never respect us. Nurses have done damage to their own profession and this sadden me as part of what makes me tick is nursing.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, High Risk L&D, PHN, Hospice RN,.

Doctors are rude only because we allow them to be rude!

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