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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nurse---people tend to think a) not smart enough to be a doctor and b) sleeping with the doctors.  Infuriating (and not true!).[/quote]

You may be smart enough to be a doctor, but you lacked the ambition.[/quote]

Unless you are a doctor, you also lacked the ambition to become one, correct?

I am not a nurse, nor am I doctor. I am not interested in school/training that can last a decade. Nothing wrong with that.[/quote]

And might I point out, it's a different kind of ambition.  My ambition wasn't to spend years and years going to school.  Yes the money as a doctor would be nice, but that's not what I wanted.  My ambition lies directly with the patient.  Direct patient care.  I spend 12 to 16 hours in a day with my patients, while the doctor might come in twice a week and spend five minutes with the patient.  If something goes wrong, the doctor, the patient, and the patient's family, depend on me to correct the problem.  If a patient codes, who's guaranteed to be there to revive the patient? The nurse.  I respect what doctor's do, but the nurse is the true patient advocate.  In addition, as a mother I can adjust my hours as needed, I have excellent benefits and I can pretty much go anywhere in the world and have a job.  It's pretty damn nice.     [/quote]

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