Mean/Rude Doctors

[k_cole21]

Okay now, I know there are some pretty nice docs who are also nice to nurses. This hospital that I'm currently at on a travel assignment have Docs that are down right mean & rude! I work in L&D and the OBs are morons. Suprisingly the anesthesia docs are overall the nice ones. It just amazes me that these docs treat us like crap and walk right into a pt room and are the nicest people on earth. Then the pts are like "Oh Dr. () is so nice....don't you just love him/her" and then I want to vomit! These folks are the real Dr. Jekyl and Mr./Mrs. Hyde. :angryfire

Oh yeah there is one Anesthesia Doc that's a moron too. He must have short man syndrome. He was annoyed with me b/c I'm giving report to the oncoming nurse and I didn't hear him ask me which bag of IV fluid was hanging.....he was rude right in front of the pt. So I said..."you can come look at the number written on this bag if you want". Jerk!

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

SURE SEEMS THAT THERE ARE MORE BAD THAN GOOD. MAYBE THEY ARE OVERWORKED

[CathRN]

Like another poster here, my mouth has gotten my into trouble more than just a few times. Just yesterday a PA was extremely rude to me at the nurses stations and I (ahem) sounded off at him. After a few minutes of total silence (know how scary that silence can be?), he apologized to me. After he left the floor, when the charge nurse would call the office for any of the Dr.'s patients change of condition, when he would call back he asked for me. Go figure. When I found out what he wanted, I transferred him back to the charge nurse (if it wasn't my patient). Sometimes, you just have to "explain" it to them.