Why do docs do this?

I love my providers. It is some of the other employees i want to get away from! Lol

I too hate it when they come in the breakroom. They try to make small talk and ask about your family like they care or even have a clue! Go to your own breakroom!

Someone takes the time to ask about your family and you reject them - why?

There are only a couple of docs who sit in our lounge and those are the ones who have established a rapport with most of us in my unit. All other docs do not. They round, chat in the nurses' station for a bit, and leave. Nothing more, nothing less. This is all very expected. If other docs besides the two we are used to sit in our lounge, we get pretty antsy and leave. It's not very comfortable for ANYONE involved. So, they just don't do it.

I honestly don't care, for the most part, when this happens.

However, I'm not allowed in the on-call room, even if my number is supposedly scrawled on the wall! (Yes, a doctor told me that once. Yes, he was kidding...I hope).

I too hate it when they come in the breakroom. They try to make small talk and ask about your family like they care or even have a clue! Go to your own breakroom!

Maybe they do care. I wouldn't bother to talk to someone or ask them about their family if I didn't care...I would read a book or something.

When I worked in the hospital, the doctors and NP's would only come into our break room to get coffee, to grab their lunch out of the fridge, or to make a plate if the nurses brought food, then they would take their food into the call room and eat. Now I'm in the clinic, and there are a couple of doctors who eat in the breakroom, but there is no on-call room for them to escape to. So it's the breakroom, their office (and a few do eat in their offices while going thru labs, making phone calls, etc), or the cafeteria which is on the complete opposite side of the the hospital. I appreciate them eating with the common folk, I have learned a lot about them and their families that I never would have known otherwise.

I have never seen a doc in our break room, ever. Now once in a while we see the young residents and medical students in the nutrition room hunting for coffee, water or soda.

I think it might be nice if they stopped by the break room to eat once in a while, might help foster the team thing...

Those of you who feel strongly that physicians should not be in your break room and/or that in your workplace it just isn't done ... I'm curious ... is the gender makeup of your nursing staff overwhelmingly female, and the gender makeup of the physician staff overwhelmingly male, and do you think that this plays a role in making your workplace different from some others of us who have described a more collegial atmosphere?