Doctors and Nurses

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Comment of the week: Dr. Disrespectful

“If you ever yell at me or are disrespectful again, you will be running the back office all by yourself.”

Doctors versus nurses

Doctors versus nurses

Is there a competitive flavor to the MD/nurse relationship that keeps us butting heads, even at our own doctor appointments?

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Sometimes nurses need a doctor too!

“Nurse, heal thyself”…this is possible sometimes, but not when we need an rx for something! Even the best nurse needs a doctor sometimes. How do you pick your doctors?

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On doctors, again

I’ve been around the block, and I’d say no other hospital relationship is more cantankerous, it seems, than the nurse-doctor one.

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Cash only, please

More than 10% of doctors have resorted to a cash-only system, and that percentage is growing! Am I the only nurse freaked out by this idea?!

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Is blaming the nurse a ‘time honored tradition’?

How should a nurse feel when a doctor (or any other colleague) jokingly tells a patient to “blame the nurse”?

The myth of nurses dating doctors

The myth of nurses dating doctors

If Grey’s Anatomy is to be believed, doctors and nurses spend more time having sex on the job than they do treating patients.

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Nurses are non-compliant?

I asked the question of my fellow co-workers, “Why are nurses such bad patients? Why do we skip doctor appointments, ignore prescribed treatments, and/or neglect ourselves. Why are we so non-compliant?”

How do I deal with a brand new resident?

How do I deal with a brand new resident?

Some residents are very aware of their limitations. Others are determined not to show any weakness and shrug off advice from anyone.

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Don’t leave your wingman?

Not too long ago, during a particularly rowdy delivery, the attending almost left me during a critical moment…

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The most annoying question

We’ve all heard it at some point – I just want to shout it out – “I want to be a NURSE! Not a doctor!”

Let’s face it: Nurses are better than doctors at some things

Let’s face it: Nurses are better than doctors at some things

Nurse Rebekah debates Dr. Brady using Mother Goose (yes, you read that right) as a source.

Why do doctors think so little of nurses?

Why do doctors think so little of nurses?

Today I had a physician call me from another floor to ask me to do an incident report on a mistake one of his residents made…

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Nurses and doctors

Does our working relationship depend more on attitude or the structure of the unit?

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A doctor in nursing uniform?

I love hearing about how the nurse practitioner is the “next best thing” in the medical profession. Is it?