annaM

You say that you've worked at 3 different places and have run into the same problem.......Maybe it isn't the doctors.

i'm currently dating a fellow at my hospital. we met on my unit when he was in his last month of his residency. i'll agree that it can be a bad idea to date people you work with. we didn't really start dating until he had finished on my unit and started his fellowship in another department. there are times when it can be awkward, like when he comes down for a consult, or i have to page him for one of my patients, but for us the key it keeping in low key and separate from our work. i work rotating shifts (1st and 2nd weekly and every other weekend) and he works 7-5ish monday - friday and he is on call a one or two weekend days a month, so we both have time to ourselves and enough time together. i didn't go into nursing to date a md and for awhile i kept telling myself that i wouldn't. i went to school with some girls that couldn't wait to marry an md and stop working, but for me, being a nurse is a huge part of who i am, i love it and no matter who i marry i will never give that up. i'm not that have lots of babies and stay at home type of girl though, i'd much rather work hard and spend my extra time and money traveling. i know that it has been said a few times before, but it comes down to, you don't date the profession, you date the person. as for the being faithful questions, just because he's an md doesn't make it anymore likely for him to cheat then any other profession. bottom line, at this point in our lives we make eachother happy.