Nurses marrying doctors

[Cqc_Cqb]

Does anyone think that most young women come into nursing in order to meet and / or marry a doctor? I have been around a while and I see young nurses where clothes that would make my head turn in a night club to work. What does that say about nursing as a profession?

[babs_rn]

I did have a classmate in nursing school, an LPN going back for her RN - a tall African American woman who made no bones about the fact she was out to meet and marry a "tall black doctor" - but then she was always a hoot, anyway

[mimslaru]

I've been married to a doctor for 18 years, he's as great now as he was when we met. The implication that I married my husband for money is amusing. What we're not saving for retirement, we use for medical missions.

I wouldn't have married my husband if I didn't really like the person he was. I didn't know he was a doctor until after we started dating.

The idea of looking for a doctor to marry is shallow. If you're looking for a marriage partner, you're apt to do better if you search for someone whose values are congruent to yours.

We have three terrific children, 2 want to be doctors, the other is interested in Aerospace. Our marriage is blissful and we chose a long time ago never to end the honeymoon!

I've been a nurse a lot longer than I've been married and didn't stop working because my husband is a doctor.

I'd like to recommend that stereotypical ideas about these relationships be examined a little closer.

[Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN]

My dh is a doctor, but not an MD. He has doctorate in engineering.

These kinds of doctors insist that everyone from the sec'ys to the janitors at work call them by their first names.

When he was teaching at a university, all these young girls went goo-goo over him, because they looked at him and saw dollar signs.

My dh has a bit of a"red-neck" look to him, lol. If you saw him walking down the street, you might think his name was Billy-Bob, and that maybe he was a truck-driver or something like that. These girls would never have given him a second look if it weren't for the title!

However, he works for a non-profit organization, as he cares more about the environment than getting rich.

[babs_rn]

Originally posted by mimslaru

I've been married to a doctor for 18 years, he's as great now as he was when we met. The implication that I married my husband for money is amusing. What we're not saving for retirement, we use for medical missions.

I wouldn't have married my husband if I didn't really like the person he was. I didn't know he was a doctor until after we started dating.

The idea of looking for a doctor to marry is shallow. If you're looking for a marriage partner, you're apt to do better if you search for someone whose values are congruent to yours.

We have three terrific children, 2 want to be doctors, the other is interested in Aerospace. Our marriage is blissful and we chose a long time ago never to end the honeymoon!

I've been a nurse a lot longer than I've been married and didn't stop working because my husband is a doctor.

I'd like to recommend that stereotypical ideas about these relationships be examined a little closer.

Well God bless you, hun...such men in ANY field are RARE and most AREN'T available!!

Babs

[mother/babyRN, RN]

I have known several people who went into nursing because they loved nursing but also wanted to marry doctors. Some did. Most are happy. A few are divorced. The common denominator I have found is that the majority of them stopped working as nurses in order to raise the doctors children and run their households. If that works for you, great. It wouldn't have worked for me. I dated some med students and my friends who did date doctors ( because we were all so busy back then we were the dating pool for each other), found it to be too stressful and time consuming between the constant paging and long hours...I think if that is the sole reason for going into nursing, one will very disappointed indeed.

[mimslaru]

Thank you Babs. Our single friends don't have a lot of good things to say about the state of dating these days and sometimes

it's painful to see what they're going through when they are dating.

Our family is very fortunate and I'm forever thankful that I've been so blessed.

[kids]

Originally posted by Hellllllo Nurse

My dh is a doctor, but not an MD. He has doctorate in engineering.

These kinds of doctors insist that everyone from the sec'ys to the janitors at work call them by their first names...

LOL!

My brother in law has a doctorate that has something to do with forestry (he counts trees).

He is the same way on the name thing...when we want to torment him we call him "Doctor".

[BlueKat]

Maybe some do. I don't think its the majority by any means.

More than anything I think its just that's how the younger people are these days. Showing belly buttons, etc seems to be the norm these days. Younger people seem to go by the creed 'if you've got it flaunt it'. I don't agree with it but that's just me. Just a thought ... Females who dress showing more than they ought to are not usually the marrying kind. I think in general men would want to marry someone who is less of an exhibitionist.

[cindylouwho]

I've never met one I'd want to date either let alone marry.......

[nurseygrrl, LPN]

I became a nurse just to marry a doctor, but wouldn't you know it, I got involved with a loss prevention manager and married him instead...DARN IT!

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

No, we become nurses because we are mentally ill.

[Brownms46]

Originally posted by bagladyrn

Only in the soap operas......

Well I have worked in soap opera units, and an ER, where there were nurses trying to marry MD, having affairs, the whole nine yards! Some even succeed in breaking up a marrage or two!

One particular place was just that was full of stuff going on, you just wouldn't even believe, if you weren't there to see it!

I would give particulars, but for all I know, they maybe reading this post...:rotfl: :roll!!!