Evil Doctors

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Specializes in Geriatric Nursing.

Almost ALL the nurses I have met are wonderful people and are more than nice to their patients. But, in my limited experience, it seems that doctors, at best, are indifferent to their patients and satanists to their nurses.

Do they rest of you find this generalization to be mostly true?

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Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.

No, I do not find the generalization to be true at all.

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Specializes in Geriatric Nursing.

thank god, maybe i just live in a bad area. literally all but one doc and ARNP treat nurses like idiots & slaves.

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

I have to say that I have met very few doctors who don't care about thier patients, as with all professions you get your good and bad and it's never a good idea to generalise.

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I find that most docs are indifferent to nurses and pts.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.
Almost ALL the nurses I have met are wonderful people and are more than nice to their patients. But, in my limited experience, it seems that doctors, at best, are indifferent to their patients and satanists to their nurses.

Do they rest of you find this generalization to be mostly true?

Not at all!

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Specializes in psych. rehab nursing, float pool.

I have not found doctors to be indifferent to their patients or to the nursing staff. Generalizations to me show either ignorance or prejudice in my estimation.

One bad experience or one bad apple , does make make every doctor, or nurse for that matter bad.

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.......Generalizations to me show either ignorance or prejudice in my estimation.......

Generally speaking?:lol2:

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Specializes in psych. rehab nursing, float pool.
Generally speaking?:lol2:

As , I said my own opinion.

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Specializes in PICU.

Thankfully, no, that hasn't been the case where I practice. I find the doctors I work with to be generally caring and devoted to their patients. Even the occasional nutjob dr we get, may be evil to nurses but is pretty caring for his patients.

I would have to say I've known at least as many evil/insane/uncaring nurses as I have doctors.

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Specializes in ICU, M/S,Nurse Supervisor, CNS.
Almost ALL the nurses I have met are wonderful people and are more than nice to their patients. But, in my limited experience, it seems that doctors, at best, are indifferent to their patients and satanists to their nurses.

Do they rest of you find this generalization to be mostly true?

I don't find this generalization to be true, either. As someone else stated, with all professions you're gonna have your good apples and your bad seeds. I believe things may be this way where you work because it is tolerated and no one has tried to correct the behavior. In the hospitals where I work, we are now starting new guidelines in team communications among the disciplines to adhere to the new Joint Commission requirements, but for the most part, the doctors and nurses respect each other and work together anyway. There are just the few docs that have the God complex going on, but thats rare.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

Lest we forget, hospitals are businesses of healthcare. So, the hospital Admins are the one's that typically define the "business culture" of their institutions...for better or for worse. Many hospitals encourage physicians and nurses to see each other as colleagues...with the same goal...quality health care...and expect them to work and communicate together as being on the same team. But, many hospitals still are guilty of encouraging the separation/distance between the two professions. Eventually, these type of hospitals will become tomorrow's dinosaurs.

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