How many of you married doctors?

mother/babyRN, RN · Jul 7, 2003

I haven't had luck with engineers either, but I STILL would reccommend them over doctors...At any rate, marry someone you can love and trust, someone to cherish who will also cherish you. It is when and if the money runs out and they are still there with you that makes the man (woman).....Cash isn't a guarantee of anything.....

mother/babyRN, RN · Jul 7, 2003

It really either is or isn't all that deep a topic...Just depends upon how one personally feels about it coupled with actual experience...This is kind of funny. I actually knew someone in school who told me she was going to make her mission to marry a doctor...She did, eventually , and they are still married..She, however, is no longer a nurse, but that isn't what she really wanted to be in the first place.....Whatever, I say.....A goal is a goal, I suppose....

Liann · Jul 7, 2003

Funny story of getting your just dues...

I used to work in a family docs office where his wife was the office manager and loved telling everyone that SHE was the docs WIFE. He had a God complex and was steppin out with the cute little medical assistant...when he wanted to leave his wife for the babe, the wife reminded him that all the assets were in HER name to avoid losing anything in the event of lawsuits, and he was welcome to go but he would get nothing. He got back on the short leash post haste. And that medical assistant??? She went on to nursing school.......

NurseStacey143, ADN, RN · Jul 7, 2003

Originally posted by dianthe1013
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 :)

I haven't noticed that but I have noticed lots of nurses and police officers being married...and for a long time! out of 6 professors at my school, 4 of them are married to policemenand one is married to a doctor. All of them have been married 25 + years. Out of my class about 20 out of sixty are married to police officers...maybe its just a texan thing, but that is ALOT!Me? I am married to a general contractor LOL

Stacey

SmilingBluEyes · Jul 7, 2003

Yes, Stacey Iknow a couple like that. My aunt (still a practicing RN after 42 years) and her policeman husband (now retired for 8 years). They married when she graduated her diploma program in 1961. Still going strong, living a wonderful life split between Minnesota in summer and a lovely home in Scottsdale, AZ in wintertime, golfing. WHEN she works, it's for nothing less then double-time as a Peds nurse. They are truly a couple who "has it all".

Glad2behere · Jul 7, 2003

What is really icky to me is to see all the divorcees trying to score a doc on our unit. I work at a teaching facility so it is similar to the original poster's. Faces change often. Docs, male or female, have made a huge investment in time, money, and emotion to their livlihood and it's actually entertaining to watch these dreamy eyes throw themselves in the path of guaranteed neglect simultaneously convincing themselves they will be first...sometimes wanting is better than having.

ainz · Jul 7, 2003

It is amazing to me that a subject such as this generates this much response when we have some serious issues out there that threaten nursing. I thought people considered marrying other people because they love that person, regardless of occupation. Many doctors don't make as much as you think anyway. The term "rich" is very relative. If you make $12,000/year then $40,000 is rich. The only thing about this subject that interests me is that image of nurses being bimbo gold-diggers looking to marry the rich doctor. It truly is sickening to me.

mattsmom81 · Jul 9, 2003

A coworker of mine was livid that one of her patients had propositioned her. She was relating the story to me at change of shift and huffs to me, " Imagine the gaul of that guy...thinking I would go for him... after all, I date DOCTORS"

I responded "Oh you poor thing, ya know I bet my hubby knows a few nice construction guys we can introduce you to".

She didn't know how to take that...LOL!

nadia562002 · Jul 9, 2003

I got a man but sometimes I think I would prefer a doc because he at least has the salary to go with the hours away from home. I am heading for a major teaching hospital soon and it would be nice to catch a resident just so long as he is not younger then me. No Doogie Houser's for me.

debralynn · Jul 9, 2003

I just graduated from LPN school, and I find it amazing this person had any free time to even think of dating!!!! LPN school was the hardest thing I have ever done in my 44 years of life!!!! My only concern was, drug cards, test, being able to actually see the insulin syringe marks, and being the best nurse my patients have ever had!!!!:stone

SmilingBluEyes · Jul 9, 2003

well then debra, sounds as you had YOUR priorities straight. welcome to the world of nursing and congratulations!

cincygirlpnp · Jul 12, 2003

I guess I'm a little sensitive about this subject since my husband is an MD and since I'm an advanced practice nurse, people sometimes allude to the idea that the reason I became a nurse was to "score" a doctor for a husband (we actually dated in college and I thought he was going to be a chemist).

So, I guess I'm a little offended by your remarks about trying to get a doctor- boyfriend. I'm a little dissappointed at the lack of professionalism displayed.