what do you think of the doctors you work with???

allnurses Guide · Nov 16, 2005

I like all of the doctors I work with.

They each have their strengths and weaknesses just like nurses.

steph

zambezi, BSN, RN · Nov 16, 2005

I generally like most of the docs that I work with too...some are fantastic and there are one or two I wouldn't let treat my cat, but most are at the very least pleasent. They do have their temper tantrums at times but I know nurses that do that too...I am petty lucky to work with a nice crew- 97% of the time I feel like we all make a good team and that my opinions and suggestions are respected and listened to.

SFCardiacRN · Nov 16, 2005

Most of the staff I work with are pleasant. But we do work in a stressful environment and tempers can flair. Try not to take it personal. As you gain in experience, you will learn when to take a stand and how to let things roll off your back.

live4today, RN · Nov 16, 2005

In eighteen years of being a nurse, I've only come across four docs that I would have loved to take to the woodshed for a beatin' due to their bad manners and rudeness towards nurses. One of those docs is a female. Another doc was rude to staff, his patients, and the patients parents. :rolleyes:

All in all...most docs are pretty decent. They are people just like nurses, and we know the hot attitudes we come across in working with SOME nurses, and other ancillary staff, now don't we? :lol2: They make me wanna drink...and I don't drink. :beer:

Tweety, BSN, RN · Nov 16, 2005

I like 99% of the docs I work with. Just this week a locally renown surgeon came to our unit, where he normally doesn't have patients and made a butt of himself, but the nurse involved with him did a great job.

I don't let a few trolls discredit MD's.

ClaireMacl · Nov 16, 2005

I work in the ED, so we've got quite a few docs permanently with us for 6 months. With those SHOs I find it sometimes takes a couple of weeks with some of them to get them to understand how nursing in the ED is different to the wards and stop them shouting at us, lol. Sometimes have difficulties with medical senior docs, like today when one was barking at me demanding I listed every test done with a patient I had looked after for approx 2 minutes (and she knew that), just about lost my rag with her, but got through with a breather, lol.

Docs are like nurses, some you click with, some you don't... depends whether your personalities click and how closely you have to work with them :)

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Nov 16, 2005

I like the majority, but there are 1 or 2 that are complete jerks. Not enough to ruin the whole lot though.

And there are several i could praise.

LeahJet, ASN, RN · Nov 16, 2005

I'm in the ER and I really like all the docs I work with. We have to work side by side for many hours at at time so it behooves everyone to be nice.:)

There is one certain Hospitalist that is a jerk.... but ALL of us in the ER (docs included) laugh about him and don't take him seriously.

I agree with the previous poster that said with experience, you gain the ability to let things roll off your back and you know when to take a stand if needed.

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Nov 16, 2005

I've run across a few over my 30 years that I would have liked to taken out back and bloodied up their faces. The worst was a cardiologist who would frequently go up to nurses after one of his patients coded and died and yell at them, "you killed my patient". Everyone worried that we would be his next target. One time he was upset that vital signs or something hadn't been charted on some patient's nurses notes and to make an example of it, he took the sheet of nurses notes and scotch-taped it to the head nurses office door, not with one strip of scotch tape, but with many. Everyone at the desk just looked on in awe as he has his little tantrum. We did have one intern who called a security team to hold a patient down who was refusing to let her do some procedure on them because the nurses refused since the patient was refusing treatment. Security refused her request. We reported her to her supervisor. I wonder what ever happened to her.

I think some of those old dinosaurs who had these kinds of temper tantrums has declined since hospitals are now owned by corporations, not the doctors anymore. When doctors owned hospitals they threw their power around and could threaten to get a nurse fired. That can't happen any more today because of all the regulations in place, but you still have to deal with the docs who just have bad behavior. And, that's all it is anymore, just bad behavior.

Bipley · Nov 16, 2005

In eighteen years of being a nurse, I've only come across four docs that I would have loved to take to the woodshed for a beatin' due to their bad manners and rudeness towards nurses. One of those docs is a female. Another doc was rude to staff, his patients, and the patients parents.

You know what makes me feel better about those kinds of docs? THEY are the ones that end up with med mal practice suits against them.

Gotta love how the universe has a way of balancing itself out. :chuckle

nursey_girl · Nov 16, 2005

I've had the unpleasant experience of working with some very unpleasnt docs. At my current facility though, our docs are pretty awesome!! They respect our opinions, they value us as part of a team. They have really given light to what a working atmosphere should be. In return, I feel a certain loyalty to our docs, and even though the facility sometimes has issues, which are not unlike any other facilities, I feel the desire to work harder because I feel valued.