Nurses marrying doctors

Lecia · Oct 24, 2003

I would hope not. Think of the horrible nurses these women make!! So busy trying to "land" a doctor they'd never have time for their patients...

I think that nurses who end up marrying doctors, or other medical professionals, is because of the long hard hours they put in and they get to know there co-workers better than people on the "outside" because work is where they spend most of there time.... where are residents going to have time to meet people... nurses/medical personnel are readily available.

That's my theory.... I could be totally wrong!!

Granted, there are Gold Diggers everywhere!!

justjill · Oct 24, 2003

...young nurses wear clothes that would make my head turn in a night club to work....

umm....i don't know where these "young nurses" you know work, but most of us wear scrubs...which are not flattering or even fitted!

and no, cqc, i do not think that most young women go into nursing to meet or marry a doctor. you quickly learn that it is bad enough trying to work with most of them, let alone live with them!

and to be honest, as a young nurse, i am a little offended by this post.

bagladyrn, RN · Oct 24, 2003

Only in the soap operas......

SteelTownRN · Oct 24, 2003

I have yet to meet an MD at work that I'd even consider dating, let alone marrying. If they aren't nice to work with, you know they'd be a pill at home as a spouse. I prefer to date someone who is not in the healthcare profession.

STG

SmilingBluEyes · Oct 24, 2003

sigh.....

oh no not again..............

WhyO · Oct 24, 2003

WOW, this is a laugh... can you imagine being married to a doctor???? eeeewwwww icky icky icky! I am soooo disturbed by that thought! I do think that the above post that discussed the understanding of the long hours, ect might be an advantage, and there are nurses married to doctors but REALLY how many? I also find this a bit offensive--but I guess it is a stereotype that we all live under...

Soonurse1 · Oct 24, 2003

I am a Senior in nursing school, and I have several male friends that go to medical school, none of them have ever dated a nurse yet, but some of my classmates are married/engaged to men in med school, but these couples were in existence before nursing and medical school. I did notice that two of my buddies from high school, one's a first year, and the other a second year at the College of medicine at my university, both immediately landed girlfriends when they got into medical school, but it was with other females in medical school. You don't have time to meet anyone else I guess, I feel the same way, but unfortunately my attempts at dating my classmates has met with some resistance. I get the response that it would be boring to date someone who does the same thing as you, but I think that is their way of saying that dating an equal (nurse to nurse) is not attractive, I've come to learn that good looking, educated woman usually "date" up if you know what I mean. They are interested in meeting someone who has what they see as a better job that pays better than theirs. However, all my professors talk about their marriages, and many of them have been married twice, it always seems to be the same, "My first marriage was to a jerk cardiologist who thought he could sleep with anyone but me, but I left him and eventually I found the best man ever who I love, oh yeah he's a doctor too, just not like the first one" I think that's funny, but knowing my professors, they are all smart ladies, who don't seem like they need to latch onto a mealticket so I am assuming they married doctors because that might have been the only kind of available men they were around when they were younger. I'll shut up now, plain and simple, I just think that when a doctor marries a nurse it is most likely a coincedence that gets overemphasized as the nurse marrying up to better herself, but I'm sure there is much more to it than that.

Keith, male, OU College of Nursing

Evie · Oct 24, 2003

i'm at uni and when i was out on one of my clinical placements i spoke to a nurse who's married to a doctor, and she said never marry one! she said they never see each other because of work..

Teshiee · Oct 24, 2003

I am not hating anyone woman who lands a MD for a husband at least she can work less!!!!!!1

jansgalRN · Oct 24, 2003

My mother's advice to me: Marry for money and you will earn every cent. In many cases a good doctor must be married to his profession. Many nurses are attracted to these qualities. I think it has a lot to do with co-dependency and wanting to be "taken care of". Of course, I know many doctors who are married to nurses and seem to be just as normal/abnormal as my husband and I. The divorce rate in our country is high, but there is no link to doctors/nurses or any other professions. We all need to work on this individually.

Altra, BSN, RN · Oct 24, 2003

Originally posted by jansgalRN
My mother's advice to me: Marry for money and you will earn every cent.

What a great saying ... I hadn't heard it put quite like that before!

No, I don't think women go into nursing to "land" a doctor. If anything, young women today have "careerism" drummed into their heads from elementary school onward, so while there are many, many factors that go into the choice of a career, including the social atmosphere, it's the WORK that attracts or dissuades someone from choosing any certain line of work.

To say that women go into nursing for that reason is, IMHO, about on par with those sad, twisted individuals who insist that women (and they usually refer to them as girls) go into the armed forces just to sleep around.

~Leigh