MDs you love?

Dr. P (ID doc) is amazing! I was changing a heavy C. Diff patient by myself and Dr. P stayed to help.

He was wonderful to work with and I tell everyone about it -- a few of the other nurses guessed who I was talking about, because he'd helped them too.

We hear so many stories about cranky, careless, or just plain mean doctors... Let's hear about the doctors with whom you'd share your cookies.

Right now - my gynecologist, who wrote for Tylenol #3 today when I called having 8/10 cramps post IUD insertion. Thank you, Dr K!

Dr D, who thanks every nurse at the station before he leaves the building.

Dr F, who ran the first code I ever watched as a student, and let me and a classmate perform compressions.

Dr W, who brings his yellow lab every time he comes to write orders (nursing home).

One of my most memorable experiences was when I came in one morning to find that the staff let a resident on hospice with very severe arthritis and a cranky family run out of OxyContin. That's a schedule II drug, needing a new written Rx, and in LTC, getting refills of C-IIs on short notice is next to impossible and usually results in the physician chewing your butt. While butt-chewing is in order for cases like these, it's usually the unfortunate charge nurse trying to fix the situation that the previous staff members had screwed up on and were safely at home.

This was on a Sunday, which made things even better. But this physician did not berate me. He was disappointed by the staff's failure to safeguard the resident's well-being, as well he should be, and he said he'd try to have a script written up later that afternoon. That was what I expected, and I figured by that time the resident would be out of her mind with pain and the family would be fit to be tied.

30 minutes later, guess who shows up at the desk with a freshly written script for OxyContin for my resident? After dealing with the incredibly temperamental medical director of the nursing home for years, I was absolutely floored that this woman's doctor went so far out of his way for his patient, and was so nice to me about it considering the NH had inconvenienced him greatly.

Dr. D - puts patient on bedpans and takes them off and cleans them

when we are busy, gets them a glass of water too! Thanks

Dr. C - orders pizza when he keeps us over time for surgeries - lanced a

cyst for me "no charge" so I could keep on working - Thanks

Dr. K - Always says thank you before he leaves - Checks me out

"unofficially" when my ear gets infected and writes a script.

Dr. M - Always a smile, and a thank you, and a "good work" on a difficult

case.

Dr. S - while he thinks he's Gods gift to women - he's still quick to say

thanks for a job well done, tells great jokes!

Dr W-

Had a pt going waaay south, BP in toilet. Called pt reg doc. Got-"Well, there's not much we can do, yadayadayada". Uh, Hello? Pt is not that old (40s) and family wants everything done. I say, want the inhouse hospitalist to eval? doc-sure(big sigh in background, aka passing the buck). Call Dr W. Looks at pt. Starts rapid fire orders, labs, gtts, blood. Wants tfr to ER. Call reg doc-" Dr W wants pt tfr to ER, Where to?" reg doc-"hem-haw" Give phone to Dr W. Hear arguing between docs. Dr W WINS!!! Pt to ER. Pt family clapped as pt left, alive! F/u pt had bled into shoulder/arm/chest after a PICC attempt. Reg doc wrote him off b/c of his other dx, Dr W did not. And now we have lost Dr W, it was a sad day for us.

Our medical director is the BEST doctor on the planet! He will always ask my opinion on what I think should be done for a patient, and he will give me verbal orders for pretty much anything I feel is necessary for the patient. He always takes the staff to lunch when he comes out to our neck of the woods to visit the patients in their homes (hospice). Love that guy!

When I worked pediatrics, I worked with some AMAZING Dr.s!!!! With a lot of our chronic kiddos, the parents would bypass the clinic and ER and come straight to the floor (yes, they always called to give us a heads-up). We would call the kiddos regular Dr to inform them, mostly had standing orders for these little ones.

Once they arrived to the floor, we assessed, started standing orders, then call the Dr. If the kiddo was not looking to good, all we had to say was we need you here, and they were there immediately!

These pedi Dr.s were so wonderful to their patients and to us. They were quick to buy us lunches, coffee, sweets, etc. and very quick to tell us "good call". Thank you.

Now, I work Cath lab, and again, the Dr.s there are quick to tell us how great it is to work with such a wonderful team and good job. They also tell us individually, I normally circulate and they are quick to tell me "good call, I know that I can count on you to tell me what is going on with this patient".

I know that this is some of the small, little things that our Dr.s do for us. They are also very quick to buy our lunches, order in for us, and a couple of them even cook at home and bring it in for us. After a difficult or long case, they all make sure that we get a break before the next case. They refuse to listen to our schedule runner who wants us to work back to back to back cases, they stand up to her very quickly.

I have worked with some doozies on the flip side as well, but what I described above is the norm for my experience. I guess I'm really lucky!

I have worked with Dr. L, who seemed to think that meant Lord, and Dr. D, who just knew it meant divine. But for each of these I have also worked with multitudes of wonderful men and women.

Dr. H, who continued to work while receiving chemo and told me, with a smile, I did not have to get up to offer him a chair. His cheerful ties have brightened many a day for me and many others. His down to earth manners have made everyone comfortable asking questions and offering suggestions. He also listens to the CNAs in LTC, knowing they are closer to the patients than the rest of us.

Dr. C, who is my MD, and treats me as a friend. She walked out of her office to visit my new dog because she knew how great the loss of my old dog was to our entire family.

Dr. C, who accepts med error mistakes made by nurses without making them feel worse or yelling. Instead he offers support for the nurse, knowing that no one feels worse than the one making the mistake.

Dr. W, who would come in at night for a delivery with a smile and glory in the beginning of a new life. He was about 80 at that time.

I have been fortunate to work with some of the nicest MDs around. They say thank you so often, trust your word when it defies their diagnosis, and offer support when you need it.

Thank you for reminding me that my career has been truly blessed by knowing and working with human beings more often than Dr. "Lord" and Dr. "Divine".

I'll add mine:

Dr. T who even when on-call for a colleague, is always pleasant and accommodating, even when paged for the 3rd time in a night. And he always says, "Hello" in the morning when he arrives. He even came in to help with a patient who was crashing which saved the patient from a Code.

Dr. M who has said multiple times, "Thank you for taking care of my patients." and he means it.

There's good one in the mix. Some times they're not so obvious.

Tom

Dr T. who helped with a huge dressing change...

Dr. S. who always is courteous on those early morning phone calls...

Dr.B. who assists the nurse with tx and is a great teacher and missionary...

Dr. Br. who gives sample meds to his underinsured patients...

Dr. W. who puts his patients first and is helpful to the nurse...

Dr g- who lists his home phone number if you call his office on off hours.

Dr m- who always can make me laugh. For instance last week I was putting an iv in a guy covered with tattoos. I do mean covered. He is hollering how I am killing him when I'm trying to place an iv in, I'm talking crying and screaming. Dr m walks in to see whats up and looking at his tattoos and says "Are those rub ons?" I almost dropped my iv kit. We had a good laugh about it later.

Dr. F.T.-who is always pleasant on those 3am phone calls. who always says thank you the nurses after those 3am calls. who is always calm, patient when we call even if it seems like only a SLIGHT change inpt condition. We love him! ( we thik he has a greater appreciation for us because he's married to an RN)!