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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]But you'll always be lower in the pecking order, and take your orders from, MDs.[/quote][/b]

Actually, in many situations the nurse will suggest to the doctors what he should write as an order. More often than not it is well received and encouraged by the MD's. It's called team work and taking care of the patient and being an advocate. [/quote]

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