I want to be a nurse when I finish college. I'm currently a senior in high school. I have 5 more years until I graduate college/ become a nurse. I already have 4 piercings on my ears. I want 3 more (second lobes and 1 more cartilage (helix)). Is it frown upon that I will have 7 piercings or should I stop? I also want a tattoo on my finger (not sure about it, but the size will be smaller than a quarter). But is it acceptable tho?
I have a similar doctor. She's been my doctor since I was 15. Dinner is not something that we would do. So you can have a micro practice doc that knows you well without bashing others
I'm sorry, I don't see the boundaries or why would there be any.
Physicians are supposed to maintain a professional relationship with patients. They are not supposed to do dinner with their patients. I could see a fuzzy area if the relationship started as friends and then he became your doctor, but even then, if it were me, I would defer you to another physician because frankly.... There are things I shouldn't know about my friends, like if they have herpes.
Physicians are supposed to maintain a professional relationship with patients. They are not supposed to do dinner with their patients. I could see a fuzzy area if the relationship started as friends and then he became your doctor, but even then, if it were me, I would defer you to another physician because frankly.... There are things I shouldn't know about my friends, like if they have herpes.
Thank you for your comments. Is there a law in place that physicians cannot have dinner with patients that I do not know about? What about a four partner physician office. They are all friends, wives shop together, lunch together, MDs golf and go to bars togehter and one MD comes down very sick and is in the hospital. He calls on one of his partners to be his doctor. Can they not be friends after he recovers? Are they not allowed to go out to dinner or golf or go to bars since there is a doctor/patient relationship that developed? This has been going on for almost 10 years now and he is friends with many of his patients. We are one big happy family!
Doctors working together are going to be friends before they are patients. Again, this is different. I imagine if you look on AMA's code of ethics, you'll find info on patient/doctor relationships. Give me a minute and I'll see what I can find. It's not a legal thing - it's a code of ethics by the board that licenses them that would put that boundary in place.
You are right in the sense that becoming friends with a provider is not specifically stated as being prohibited. I concede that point. However, reading through I do wonder if, while being friends, the relationship you share doesn't compromise his ability to comply with other points in the code, such as objectivity.
You are right in the sense that becoming friends with a provider is not specifically stated as being prohibited. I concede that point. However, reading through I do wonder if, while being friends, the relationship you share doesn't compromise his ability to comply with other points in the code, such as objectivity.
Thank you for the link to the AMA Code of Ethics. I will look at them tomorrow!
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Eh, I don't think it's that big of a deal.
I used to work in a small community that had 4 OBs total. One of them was a woman my age. I first sought her out for women's care when we moved there (before I was an RN). When I became an RN and began working with her, we became friends as well. We would occasionally do stuff together outside of work. She also delivered my youngest child. In a small community, where you work with the providers, and you don't have the choice of NOT seeing one of them for your health needs, it's pretty commonplace to have friendships with them outside of work and socialize with them.
I wouldnt mind being touched by a healthcare professional with tattoos.....but I dunno about a doctor that drinks with their patients and discusses his policies for interviewing support staff with them. I might stay away from someone like that.
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Tbh I m already accepted into Drexel Univeristy and its nursing program. I still will get my ear piercings, but no hoops, danglings, or stretching. They are going to be small studs. The tattoo, I m going to hold off of. There are posts on here I felt that it was pretty harsh. I mean reality is harsh, but there is no need to be harsh on here. Thank you for your responses. Btw I m actually pretty consercative (actually very). Piercings are like a way for me to express myself and that's why I m getting the ear piercings.
Sorry you you felt replies that did not endorse your desires....
but out they were are are the real world...of course at 43+years..... I just may not know.....but I think you have been afforded. Good advice
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I have a similar doctor. She's been my doctor since I was 15. Dinner is not something that we would do. So you can have a micro practice doc that knows you well without bashing others