How many of you married doctors?

jayna, RN · Jul 8, 2002

Originally posted by JHUnurse
Hi all!

I'm currently a student at Johns Hopkins SON, just starting, and I'm wondering how hard it will be to meet and date some of the male med students here to seek out future husbands. Don't get me wrong, marrying a doctor is NOT the reason I want to be a nurse, it's just an added benefit. :) Let's face it, my nursing salary will not be enough to live in NYC, where I want to live, AND support a family.

So how many of you managed to score doctor husbands, and how'd you do it? Any suggestions on how I can meet some of them?

Thanks!

Is this somekind of a research you are doing?

I dated doctors, it's fun but but never thought of marrying one.

OrthoNutter · Jul 8, 2002

Urgh...I will never date a doc again. I was living with one up until a year ago and he was sooo demanding, not to mention, we worked at the same hospital and he was always wanting to talk about cases at home. He didn't understand why I didn't want to relive every torturous moment of my shift at home. lol The other thing that bugged me was that he was allowed to do as many hours overtime as he liked but if I was a few hours late home or I hadn't cooked anything because I just got home myself, he'd storm out of the house and get takeaway.

Never again would I date someone I work with....except the physios and resp techs....hehe...I could be swayed on them.

marci3335 · Jul 8, 2002

Originally posted by tcolleen
As for me, I recommend finding a nice engineer. I married one and he is stable, funny, intelligent and will make a very good father. I have also met many of his friends, and they are not nearly as boring as the stereotype will have you believe.

Ah yes, an engineer. My hubby's an engineer and a great father to boot! Makes breakfast for the kids and is home by 5!! I wouldn't want it any other way!

Marci

hapeewendy · Jul 8, 2002

heres a wacky little idear..

how bout you try to acheive your goals like living in NYC on your own merit?

instead of trying to score with a dr

that is so 1950's

*shaking head in disbelief that young women today still think this way*

I'm in my 20's and I cant imagine wanting to compromise the happiness of a marriage just so that I can live in the right city or have all the comforts that I dont currently have.

I demand being able to see , spend time with, have meals with, watch movies with, make love with any partner or future husband of mine

so yah guess that takes any doctor out of the running for me.

but then again what do I know about anything?

I'm just some young naive thing trying to make her way in this world and find true love of her own while making her own living and dreams come true

*takes a moment to rethink the whole scoring a dr thing, could probably do it......nahhhh wont compromise my entire being for that, sorry!*

live4today, RN · Jul 8, 2002

Favorite quotes that say much to the mind and heart if we but take it all in....

"Don't miss out on a blessing because it isn't packaged the way that you expect."

"As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less."

"He/She is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap."

"Success in marriage is NOT so much finding the right person as it is in being the right person."

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." -- Gloria Steinem :chuckle

SmilingBluEyes · Jul 8, 2002

***a linen closet in someone's future**** Rofl on that one. nursegoodguy, you are hilarious.

arbley · Jul 8, 2002

Hey JHUNurse! You started this topic and then bailed out. What's the matter? Don't you like the responses?

As far as bagging an MD . . . . be careful what you wish for. you might get it.

kids · Jul 8, 2002

I'm to tired from covering to many shifts this week end (to everyone who's vacation I approved...you are welcome) to even comprehend this girls thinking...

Honey you have GOT to quit smokin' your lunch.

kids · Jul 8, 2002

And everybody stop sayin' LINEN CLOSET!!!

I am tryin' to forget that story.

Darn! I feel dirty...again.

VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN · Jul 8, 2002

Mattsmom81 wrote

powerful, wealthy egomaniacs do NOT make good hubbies.

Brings to mind an ole doc I once knew long time ago in a hospital far, far away. This doc was in his sixties, had tireless energy, very intelligent, was also the mayor of the small town in which he ran his family practice. ACTUALLY, this doc HAD to run EVERYTHING.. a bona fide megalomaniac. The ole doc liked to chase skirts and was rumored to be having some affairs. Then there was a huge scandal in the town, when he allegedly was abusive to his wife and kids--wife beating, besides the cheating. Wife and he ended up having a very nasty, very public divorce (dirty laundry airing and all). Then a little young something at the hospital "nabbed" him--someone easily half his age. Actually, the ole' doc had actually DELIVERED this girl 30 some years ago:eek: :eek: :eek: They never did get married, but are still living together after all these years. A very strange relationship indeed and a very strange saga fitting for an equally strange town.

slinkeecat · Jul 8, 2002

I dated a doctor once and everything was fine until his wife found out....LOL I am not kidding he was new and so was I and he forgot to mention that he was married.....what a jerk.... any way.... I find this thread a hoot, I have never laughed so hard!!!! I really think that perhaps you should consider a doctor....like a psychiatrist......they are so fun..... you could have a marriage and free psych meds and counseling.... what a bargin.... and your expensive shoes would make nice clickety -click noises as you walk down the hallways arm and arm... healing the insane trapped within themselves......

katy

( oh, that was not very nice of me..... bad kitty, bad, bad, kitty!!!)

dianthe1013 · Jul 8, 2002

Originally posted by tcolleen
As for me, I recommend finding a nice engineer. I married one and he is stable, funny, intelligent and will make a very good father. I have also met many of his friends, and they are not nearly as boring as the stereotype will have you believe.

I also second this one. LOL My fiance is studying to be an engineer, and a good portion of my friends - male AND female - are going the same route... Maybe we should set up a dating service for nurses and engineers?

Seriously, though, it's weird. A lot of nurses I know are attached to engineers. Wonder why?

Donna :)