Reply #46: I've been a medical technologist for 26 years [View All]

There are decent doctors and there are assholes. The problem is that there is no one to rein in the assholes. They can be impossible to deal with and there is no one to tell them the shape up and behave.

And for all of you good souls with family members who are physicians, well, just because they are well behaved at home doesn't mean they are even decent with the ancillary workers at the hospital. You might be shocked if you could be a fly on the wall observing your family member reaming out a nurse because she/he couldn't do the impossible and give undivided attention to 12 patients at a time. Of course it would be more productive to ream out the administration of the hospital, but it must be more fun to scream at someone who can't scream back because they sure do a lot of it.

Thank heavens I don't have to deal with too many of them in the lab. But, I went to a mandatory customer service workshop last week and most of the nursing staff in attendance were up in arms about the demeaning treatment by the physicians. And I mean to the point that some of the Rn's were talking about getting out of profession.