B (2:44)

Yeah. And I think that's. I think that they don't. I don't. They get the appreciation from everybody that they deserve, not just the doctors.

A (2:50)

So we kind of sort of call this, like, occupational confessional, where we'll put you on the voice disguiser. And you just got. We're not gonna ask you where you work. We're not even gonna ask you what your real name is, how long you've been a nurse. But is there a bubbling kind of animosity towards doctors general, as general rule? Is it there?

B (3:07)

And does it go both ways? Does it come from the doctors to the nurses, too? And I think that if you're a male nurse, definitely call. Because I think that you talk about being disrespected for what you do and feeling like you're not doing enough, which is ridiculous. My best friend is a nurse, and so is her husband. And so I also have heard that the male nurses get all the tougher jobs. Like, they get all the heavier patients. They have to do all the heavier lifting and that sort of thing. And don't really get any credit for that.

A (3:36)

We will call her Sarah, and she is on the voice disguiser right now. Good morning, Sarah.

C (3:40)

Hey, guys. How are you doing?

A (3:41)

Good. How are you?

C (3:42)

I'm good.

A (3:43)

Can I just ask you.

C (3:44)

I talk to you guys. I've been listening from the beginning, and I never get through.

B (3:47)

Thank you.

C (3:48)

I think I can bring some clarification to all of your questions.

A (3:51)

Okay.

C (3:51)

All right. Okay. Well, I'll address. First of all, you were talking about, like, the animosity or is there any, like, bubbling jealousy? And I think that one of you guys. I think, Melissa, you said it. That I don't know that they're two different jobs. And so I don't know that I have, like, a jealousy towards doctors. But I think where the tension comes in or where the resentment comes in is that as a nurse, you're in the hospital setting, which is all I can really speak to because that's all I've ever done until recently. You do all this work to help get your patient ready. I did trauma ICU so it was very intense. You have a lot of things going on and the doctors kind of swoop in. That's what you said. And they kind of take all the credit, which is fine because that's what they do. And they went to school a long time. I have no problem with that. But the way they treat you behind the scenes is what has ultimately led for me to leave the hospital, because they will in general, and there's a few exceptions. But in general, the way they talk to you, I'm sure these people, a lot of these doctors wouldn't even talk to a dog. The way they talk to the nurse, it's like so condescending, giving us these orders and saying, why did you do this? You need to do this. And then they leave. So in the aftermath, then you have to kind of say, okay, well, I need to do all these things that he said and go check the chart. And they forgot to write the order. So then you have to call them and say, you forgot to write the order. You wanted me to do xyz, but you didn't write the order. And then they're kicked off because you're calling them. So it's more of just the relationship, I think. And again, there's a few exceptions, but for the most part, I've done nurse for a long time and I've worked at some of the best teaching university hospitals on the east. And in general, that's the way they treat you. It's like so condescending. They talk to you horribly and you're just a task oriented profession.

A (5:42)

Okay, all right, thank you very much. That's just the first one. If the phone's lit up with nurses. Good morning. Q100.

D (5:49)

Hey, how are you?

A (5:50)

I'm okay. You're on the voice disguiser.

C (5:52)

Good.

A (5:53)

You're a male nurse.

D (5:54)

Yeah.

A (5:55)

Do you feel any of this anytime?

D (5:57)

You know, I think it actually depends on which area of the hospital you work in. Because in the emergency room and like in the icu, it seems like the critical care areas, the nurses tend to get along with the doctors a little bit more just because there's a lot of emergent things that go on and the nurse has to do the work, just has to get it done without the physician being around. Whereas if you work on the med surg floor, it's kind of a more laid back environment. The patient's there a little bit longer and the nurse really, there's not that much to do as far as immersion things that need to be done. They give the patient the med. They go by what the orders the doctors wrote, and that's pretty much it. And then if the physician does need to come in, like on the med search floor, they have to call them to get orders. And it seems like that's where the doctors throw more. Attitude is up on those type of floors, whereas nurse room is not.

B (6:45)

Have you ever felt a lack of respect for being a nurse?

D (6:48)

Yeah, definitely. I work at a facility that has med students and has the residents, and the residents are the ones that have the attitude because they are just learning to be doctors.

A (7:02)

Right.

D (7:02)

And so you kind of get a little upset because you're like, listen, you snotty little punk, I've been doing this.

C (7:09)

For so many years.

D (7:10)

And here you are, you know that you know, 10 times more than they do, but they're sitting there, you know, being jerks. And they're probably the ones that seem to get slapped around a little bit for their attitude with the nurses.

A (7:22)

We've said it's kind of the same rule with celebrities in here. If they're on their way up, generally they're really arrogant and standoffish. But if they've already made it, they're cool, right? Totally cool.

B (7:33)

Yeah.

A (7:33)

Good morning. Jennifer, you're on Q100.

C (7:35)

Hey, guys. Good morning.

A (7:37)

Hi. You're on the voice disguiser. Go ahead.

C (7:38)

I don't have to be on the voice disguiser.

E (7:40)

I don't really care.

A (7:41)

Okay.

E (7:43)

I've been a nurse since 1985, and I've worked in the hospital. I've worked in chronic dialysis. I've worked all over. And nine times out of ten, doctors disrespect nurses. We're the ones who, when we see a problem, we call them and say, this, this. This is going on. They say, oh, yeah, you're right. Maybe we should do this. And then they make it all big like, oh, I fixed them. I made them better. And, you know, you just only do what I say. So again, it's that test that's, like, so not it at all. I mean, the nurses are the ones who saved the lives because they're the ones who are there all the time. And like you said before the doctor came in, oh, two pushes. I delivered the baby. Well, who was the one that was there for all of it? And that's the nurses. And they don't get the respect they deserve.

A (8:27)

So again, it's that taskmaster mentality, right?

B (8:31)

Well, yeah. I mean, it's doctor, write the order, and the nurse fulfills it. But it's almost like the well, you're here for me, and that's all you're here for. When it really is a profession that should stand on its own. And there's a shortage of nurses. Like, there's been a bubbling shortage of nurses for almost a decade now. So this must be. It's all relative. I think the fact that if I'm not respected and I'm not getting paid what I should be paid, then why am I going into this profession and is one of the most important professions out there?

A (8:57)

Alicia, do you want to be on the voice disguiser?

F (8:59)

Yes.

A (8:59)

Okay. You are.

F (9:01)

Hi. Good morning, Bertco.

B (9:03)

Good morning.

F (9:03)

Hey, thank you, guys. Every morning.

A (9:04)

Thank you. Now you have a form. All right, go ahead. You've been waiting for somebody to.

F (9:09)

Well, I left my last job because I transferred from a hospital setting because I wasn't getting the respect that I deserved, and went to an office setting, and in the office setting, a doctor actually threw a freaking chart at me.

B (9:24)

Really?

D (9:25)

Yes.

F (9:27)

It was something about an order that was supposed to be written and faxed to the hospital for a patient, and it was important, and it was done. She just didn't look. So out of spite, she threw the chart. And we deal with that every day. All the time. We deal with the patients one on one, face to face every day. The doctors, all they do is write the orders, and that's what we're supposed to do, go by the orders. It's not fair. It's not fair to us, and it's not fair to our patients because sometimes they lack on a different type of care that they need. And some of the doctors don't have the compassion. What happened to. To the compassion in the medical field? What happened to the compassion for the doctors they supposed to have for these patients? And they don't. They just see them as a dollar sign what type of insurance you have. That's it. That's the end of it.

B (10:19)

Yeah, I mean, the days of the, you know, house calls and stuff are gone, unfortunately, over.

A (10:24)

Yeah, I'd say that we could probably do this for the next two hours if we wanted to. But just to give you kind of an indication of what's going on in the phones, about 75 to 80% of the calls are from nurses saying, yeah, there's not only that bubbling tension going on, but, yeah, it's just that taskmaster mentality and just. They don't get the respect from doctors that they. They think they deserve. Some assistants were calling ups, calling out the nurses, though. Like, it trickles down.

B (10:51)

Like, it trickles down like a technician.

A (10:52)

Is saying, doctor takes it out of the nurse, nurse takes it out of the technician. Technician takes it out to the assist.

F (10:57)

Pay it forward.

A (10:58)

Yeah, the Birch Show.