"A monkey can be trained to do what you nurses do"

[angel337]

yes. that is exactly what i heard a cardiologist tell a cath lab nurse when i took a patient having an acute MI to the cath lab. i was completely and utterly floored by his comment. apparently the room was not prepared to receive the patient and the doc had a fit. one nurse looked like she was near tears. another just walked out. we all were in front of the patient so i think the nurses did not want to confront the doc right there at that moment. when he was out the patients view he slammed down the charts and slammed doors. i coudn't believe the behavior. i know some docs can be nasty, but i just can't see myself putting up with such humiliation. people do what you allow them to and apparently this doc hasn't run across the right nurse yet. if a monkey can do what nurses do, then why isn't he doing it? i mentioned the incidence to my nursing sup. and she was angry and promised to look into it. since i only work ED i felt uncomfortable getting directly involved. how have you guys dealt with situations like this?

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

I kinda thought that the sock monkey fear stemmed from that red butt. I mean, what a rash!!

[boulergirl, CNA]

I wonder what would happen if this guy went to an opera house and told the singers, "Ya know, I could teach my canary to sing just like you guys." I'd love to see the reaction. Just like nurses, they train for years to do what they do, and you know what, they would laugh in his face.

[veteranRN]

How many physicians could successfully do what us nurses do? How many times do we hear patients say they would rather have a nurse start their IV or draw their blood???

[danu3]

I wonder what would happen if this guy went to an opera house and told the singers, "Ya know, I could teach my canary to sing just like you guys." I'd love to see the reaction. Just like nurses, they train for years to do what they do, and you know what, they would laugh in his face.

Come to think of it, with 20/20 hindsigt, maybe a good response is to just laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and start to roll on the ground laughing, and just walk away with laughing tears.

-Dan

[mscsrjhm]

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i wonder if monkeys and jackas*es make good team mates?

This is preposterous!!! How could a monkey possibly have appropriate bladder capacity to work in nursing???? Not to mention lifting ability!!!

A jack***, on the other hand, might have the bladder capacity...., and the "back" for nursing..., and every good team needs at least one member with that annoying donkey sounding laugh....

[ddc101]

Wow what arragance that md has.Don't worry you reap what you sow or what comes around goes around.He will need nursing care one day himself.We all end up on the other side of the thermometer sooner or later.In the meantime...hand me a banana smoothie will ya?:rotfl:

[purplemania, BSN, RN]

I would be tempted to respond with, "And I bet you are just the monkey who thinks he can do it."

[Helen2BRN]

Wow! I worked for a terrific doctor once, and he told me something I never forgot. He said, " Most doctors think they sit on the right hand of God, but we are just fallible men". "We should never treat patients or co-workers with disrespect. "And we should never think we are above anyone just because we are doctors." "We should be humble and remember we are servants to the sick."

He really lived what he talked. Don't know many people who do that. Doctors or otherwise.

[tattooednursie, LVN]

I tell ya!!! That about made me sick. I would love to watch HIM do nursing tasks and try to say that again. he needed to be b**** slapped for that comment.

[leslie :-D]

Wow! I worked for a terrific doctor once, and he told me something I never forgot. He said, " Most doctors think they sit on the right hand of God, but we are just fallible men". "We should never treat patients or co-workers with disrespect. "And we should never think we are above anyone just because we are doctors." "We should be humble and remember we are servants to the sick."

He really lived what he talked. Don't know many people who do that. Doctors or otherwise.

a philosophy well worth incorporating in med school....every term until they get it.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

(Amazes me how mentioning Monkey made Sock Monkey ads appear at the bottom of the screen)

[jaimealmostRN]

This weeks People magazine ("Baby Love!" on cover) has a great profile on a doctor who really is a servant to the sick as someone else posted. He and his family live in a trailer home on the mississippi delta and help a poverty stricken town with their clinic. I am sure that all HH nurses do similar things as this man does (house calls to barely livable conditions and pt education for those that have had little to none in the past). But I would definatly see that you NM is notified and "organize" the other witnesses to make sure that this a$$hole is disciplined.