How do the doctors treat you?

[DutchgirlRN]

I work in a relatively small community hospital. We have 120 beds. We have been rated in the top 100 hospitals in the US for the past 7 years straight. I'm just wondering does the size of the hospital have anything to do with the way you are treated by the doctors? With the exception of 5 doctors, I feel like our doctors (20-25 doc's that we regularly see) really respect us as nurses and value our opinions. They are interested in us as people and concerned when they see that we are not feeling well. They never grump when we beep them or call them on their cells. They are friendly when you see them out in public. I just really enjoy working with them and feel like it's mutual. What I'm saying is that they act like co-workers not superiors. Is this true everywhere? no matter the size of the hospital? Or does it just depend on the doctor and I'm really lucky to work with so many good ones?

I'm telling my age here, I'll be 50 this year, when I was first in nursing the doctors were definately the superiors and acted like it too. We had to get up and give them our chair whenever they came into the nurses station. We carried their charts for them. So glad things have changed! We have one older doctor that jokes everytime "who going to carry my charts?". We all ignore him on purpose and he says "my nurses are growing up" and goes about his business, he's so cute. Just wondering how you think you are treated by the doctors that you work with?

[begalli]

Large teaching hospital here. I would say for the most part the attendings and fellows have a great respect for us and value tremendously what we do. Of course we manage their VERY sick patients so there is a certain amount of trust that must be earned. Residents take some time to break in. They may come in all gung-ho-I'm-the-boss-and-I-know-everything, but we take care of that right away with the full support of nursing management and the attending's having "chats" with the newbies if needed. After a few weeks they too realize what we contribute to the team and what great resources we are.

No yelling, no demeaning comments, no holier than thou attitudes. All in all we make a really good team and provide great patient oriented care without out of control egos.

[nurturing_angel]

OMG! Angie, that story about calling the doctor in the middle of the night is too funny. Go ask your mother! ROFL!!!!! I almost choked on my water and scared my husband to death!

I called a doctor in the middle of the night to get pain meds for a labor pt once and was told to give her a hamburger!!!!! HaHaHa!!!!

Vickie :Melody:

[UM Review RN, ASN, RN]

I called a doctor in the middle of the night to get pain meds for a labor pt once and was told to give her a hamburger!!!!! HaHaHa!!!!

:rotfl: But go easy on the spices, right? :rotfl:

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

i work in a b.u.t.h. (big urban teaching hospital) :chuckle. most of the doctors are good guys. some of the surgeons can be obnoxious intra-op but tend to be really good with the family and with nurses on the floor. the choice few exist, of course, who give everyone a hard time, and they are known to all for that reason, but by and large they are good. i think the presence of students, interns, and residents helps, because docs need to have the social skills to teach and to deal with people who have different functions and/or levels of knowledge (which is not to say that baby docs are treated with kid gloves ...) there is, of course, the occasional resident who has an attitude, but we often succeed at knocking that right out of them.

lol! i work in a buth, too! we get along great with the residents, although there's one almost every year who will tell you his first name is "doctor." (we usually get them over that real fast. the only time i call a resident "doctor" is when i'm supressing a natural desire to give them the kick in the *** they've just proven they richly deserve!:angryfire ) the fellows are great, too, and even most of the attendings. every now and again, however, there's a world-famous specialist of some kind with a real attitude. some of them i get along with, but one neuro-surgeon, years ago chased me down the hall trying to throw a (full) bedpan at me because i didn't know who he was. (and i thought i was being rather tactful, asking him how to spell his last name rather than asking who the frell he was!:chuckle )

in almost every institution i've worked in, however, there's been a physician with an anger-management problem, in the one and only small, private hospital i worked in, there were four. i haven't run into anyone at my current job yet with an anger management problem, so perhaps there's hope . . .

[DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN]

I am absolutely terrified of some of the male doctors. It freaks me out the energy I get from them. A very strong dominant energy that drains my energy and has me practically cowering.

But there are some doctors who are very kind and easy going, and I am not afraid to call them or ask them something.

You're gonna have to get over that. They put their pants on one leg at a time just like everyone else. The days of Dr.God are gone.

I admit I used to be afraid of some of them in my younger years as a nurse. I'm not afraid of them now. I 've unfortunately had to stand up to a few. One made my cry afterwards but thankfully he didn't get to see that and administration stood behind me 100%. I still see him and we still ignore each other. What a ******* he is. I suppose that might be because he got repremanded ! I hurt his "big" cardiac ego !!