I know that the hospital is a lot less like television than we would like to think, nurses and docs madly rushing to save lives and falling in love all at the same time (mind you, I haven't had a television since about 1994 so this is all based on first season episodes of ER), but in the *actual* hospital, why can't everyone at least pretend to care what's happening to a 20 year-old patient found unconscious on the floor and desating... and why can't the doctors pretend that they think nurses are competent? We're not doctors, but we're also not dimwits. Seriously.p.s. if you read this blog with any regularity you know that I defend docs to the hilt; I do so because I recognize that we are not doctors. Personally, I accept that I could never be and would never want to be socialized in that way. Still, experiencing the doctor/nurse dilemma first hand, not as a peer researcher, but as a nurse, was, frankly, a proverbial slap in the face. I'm still trying to understand what it means to follow that path. And that understanding is proving to be difficult.
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