Why do you think so many healthcare workers are mean and arrogant?

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Not all of course, but many physicians, nurses, and other health care workers have mean and arrogant personalities.

Why do you think this is?

Is it that....

1. You have to be very competitive to get into medical or nursing school. Competitive people are often cut-throat.

2. The stress of the job causes workers to be cranky and mean.

3. Unhappy people act arrogant to feel better about their lives.

4. Workers learn to be mean from other coworkers. It's a conformity thing.

5. Most people in the world these days lack manners.

Any opinions?

Specializes in OB, HH, ADMIN, IC, ED, QI.
maybe because of job stress... for us health care providers, specially here in the philippines the overwhelming number of patients and the non therapeutic conditions contributes to stress which causes this type of actions...

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I can imagine the stress caused by the conditions you describe, but it is never appropriate to take it out on patients. Exercise and support groups are more effective and wise, victimizing patients isn't!

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

i think a better question would be "why is it that you believe so many healthcare workers are mean and arrogant?" possibly because we elicit the responses we get. so if you're thinking that so many healthcare workers are mean and arrogant, it says more about you than about the healthcare workers you're encountering!

Specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.

I'm only mean and arrogant with people who beat me with a coathanger, try to break my limbs, try to bite me, dump half a bottle of baby powder on my head, try to invade my sick defenseless patients' rooms stark naked and walking like a crippled horny moose.

Hmm. Ok I'm not too gracious with people who happen to be my height (under 5 foot) and weigh four times what a normal human being should, and get snippy with me to "turn me right now!" Yeah, and I'm not nice to their families either. No, I can't tell you different stuff from what I just told you if you call back in twenty minutes.

I don't have eight arms and the proportional strength and agility of a darn octopus. If I ever sprout such appendages, you'd better run, because I won't be thinking "omigosh I gotta go turn that half-ton human right now!" More like hmm. Mighty big oyster ya got there.

Okay I'm gonna have some tequila since I'm not going to make any more sense today.

Specializes in trauma, ortho, burns, plastic surgery.

Somebody mean and arogant here? Teach Zuzi to be a little bit like you, because in the other way "good" people will step on her, poooor Zuzi,.....looooool.

Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

I don't agree. My question would be is there less respect for others in general? Yes would be my answer. Another question would be is there less self respect ? Again my answer would be yes.

In previous generations, people may have thought arrogantly, but perhaps held back saying what was on their minds.

I've been cursed at by surgeons, and thanked profusely by surgeons. I've had instruments thrown at me, and nasty gloves snapped at me and not the kick bucket. I've also watched a surgeon lift his elderly neighbor and carry him in his arms to the ER.

It's PEOPLE who have the potential for arrogance and who make the willful choice to stain their reputation, and stain the hearts of others with their choices. And if that's what you call being defensive, you are wrong. That's what's called being polite.

People who behave like this will eventially have to answer for it. Then, and only then, will they learn to change their attitudes.

Specializes in trauma, ortho, burns, plastic surgery.

Less self respect for others? Yup it seems that people now respect less and less others. Why? My beliveness is related about them education from family, social and cultural peers, interactions on the life path and background. They are like that because they was growup like that!

Less self respect for self, here is another discussion, people loose their old values or interchange them with others, good or bad who knows, looool, but for sure, without some very well conturated values in your life you are only a leaf in the wind!

I don't point now the ethical norms of values, dosen't matter now, if they are good or bad, but you need to have ones and to strong adhere on them. So then, you know who you are, your identity, where you belong and what are your expectancies and you know how to respect your self in the light of your own values.

No values, not self respect.

i think a better question would be "why is it that you believe so many healthcare workers are mean and arrogant?" possibly because we elicit the responses we get. so if you're thinking that so many healthcare workers are mean and arrogant, it says more about you than about the healthcare workers you're encountering!

denial is a river in eqypt. it's ridiculous to imply that all arrogant behavior was provoked.

Specializes in IM/Critical Care/Cardiology.
Denial is a river in Eqypt. It's ridiculous to imply that all arrogant behavior was provoked.

well said:innerconf

Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

The Nile is in Egypt. Denial is in the person. I for one never intended to say arrogant behavior was provoked. Arrogance begins and ends with the arrogant. It says a lot about who is saying what.

Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

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