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 All of us as nurses have dealt with many doctors, some good most are jerks who you wonder why they ever picked this profession. Let us come up with some of our own definitions "one" word if possible to describe what doctors are...

arrogant

arrogant,.self centered, rude and abusive four single words

misunderstood

@holes (not all of them, just most I've met)

pezzy says ...

Yikes,  not all Docs are "bad", so i am going to go in another direction....

 

 

  Intelligent, caring,reputable

I agree pezzy- doctors are healers

are busy and don't have alot of patience (that's why God created nurses!)

Char -

Great insight!

For those who didn't understand my 1-word answer: misunderstood...

Some docs do drive me insane!

Others I really feel for - while we clock in & clock out, they remain on all day & night. Some don't have the luxury of partners to take call on a rotation & manage it all on their own.  Many are being hit hard by reduction in reimbursement & increasing malpractice & other overhead costs. 

While these are the choices they made & the life they chose, I have spent enough time really talking with some physicians & understand their lives & jobs aren't all sunny.

Sometimes, the stress comes out at us. 

Nothing in my post is meant to excuse bad behavior!  There is no excuse for abusive behavior & disrespect in the workplace.

In about 90% of the cases of misbehavior I've come across in almost 20 years in healthcare, I can honestly say that positive confrontation was the answer.  It usually brought the offender to a place of insight they never had before & the 2 people closer as collegues.  But positive, assertive confrontation is a skill we're not taught - neither are they. 

The other 10% of misbehavers are just JERKS - no matter what their title is!

Rant over.

Sounding Boards for our ideas.......  We can have vision of our patients, but to truely understand what is happening and what is needed in it's whole we need the mind of Doctors who take the time to explain the plan with us......  Some Doctors have no bedside manners... it is up to us to try to bring that out.......  Lets face it..... Sometimes we nurses are hard to deal with as well........  Yes I do know that some Doctors are just generally unhappy in life..... but then so are others in this profession.....

 I have known many God wanna bees

 different people

 stuck up

to respond to greenergrass,  I have some very close friends who are doctors and I have worked side by side with one, and  love her to death , but working with her..  i can say she is a  b**ch to work with. sometimes  and she  can say I am too at times, Its our profession, it is frustrating and demanding and scary, and the list can go on and on.. and i know it dont matter with  some , there are just some that are truely a b**ch all the time, and this is just  who they are doctor or not..... and this is true for nurses too I have met a few that are truely just b**ches. this is who they are nurses or not....

pill pushers

    making great money with a little attitude at times 

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