> Doctors get status and respect, but often it's the nurse I don't buy this, because the "nurse who knows more than the residents" has been a stock character f

> Doctors get status and respect, but often it's the nurse I don't buy this, because the "nurse who knows more than the residents" has been a stock character for a while. Nurses haven't been unsung for most of this century. If anything, the perception has totally flipped, and another stock character (at least in the US) are doctors as "yes-men" and "butchers", preoccupied with getting back to playing golf, who only know how to prescribe a pill because the drug rep advertised it to them. Nurses are lionized, and almost no one is saying "just a nurse" anymore: https://news.gallup.com/poll/274673/nurses-continue-rate-highest-honesty-ethics.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/274673/nurses-continue-rate-hig...