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Funny, as a patient I prefer the opposite. Higher educated nurses tend to play doctor, but I can't trust their opinion because they aren't real doctors. It come
by pubby 7y ago
Funny, as a patient I prefer the opposite. Higher educated nurses tend to play doctor, but I can't trust their opinion because they aren't real doctors. It comes at the cost of them listening poorly, for they carry the confidence of their degree.
- baq 7y agoit isn't surprising that a nurse of 5 years on the post knows better than a doctor a year out of university because there's literally no reason she wouldn't. source: nurse significant other having to tell better-paid (usually by a lot) newbie doctors what to do on the job
- pnutjam 7y agoAll frontline careers have that problem.
- disabled 7y agoThere really are some amazing nurses and nurse practitioners out there. I am unhealthy and I have at least 1 medical appointment per week. I am literally indifferent to having a nurse practitioner or a medical doctor as my care provider. Anyways, my endocrinologist is a nurse practitioner with a masters degree. I have a very rare autoimmune neurological disease, that affects my peripheral nervous system, that was initially blamed on type 1 diabetes complications. In fact, its onset was so insidious that it looked just like "diabetes complications." My endocrinologist (you know, the nurse practitioner with a masters degree) sent my blood to the only lab in the US that tests for the disease I have...and it came back positive. The rest is really history, and now I am getting proper treatment for it.