When I am not in the hospital, I am this down-to-earth, shy, humble, soft spoken, calm person who just loves to help people, laugh, joke, and have fun. But once I set step into the hospital, it is like I get an instant personality change. I become this bitter, calous, firm, authoritative, dominant guy who takes no crap from no one, and who sometimes responds "firmly" to nurses who keep paging me about simple things while I am in the ER admitting a patient, and still have 3 more left waiting to be admitted, with the Emergency Physician pushing in more patients down my throat, and ER nurses constantly naging me about the admission orders.
The floor nurses already labled me as "stuck up" and "firey", and think twice before paging me for something simple because they do not want to hear my "smart alec" remarks. I realy feel bad when the floor nurse pages me, and quickly says, "I am very sorry to page you Dr. Leukocyte, I know you are very busy but......." I realy feel bad for the nurses. I am not like that. I do not like to be labled as something I am realy not. It just sometimes it gets VERY overwhelming. When I get 3 pages at the same time (one from the floor nurse who wants me to come up and deal with Mr. x'S Chest Pain, the other form the ICU nurse who is saying that Mrs. x is having severe SOB now) all while I am trying my best to admit the 4 patients I have in the ER as fast as I can........IT IS CRAZY, and sometimes I cannot help but "lose my sophistication" with the nurses.
Do you guys also behave differenlty when in the hospital?
This is specialy bothering me since I am a single guy who would love to hook up with a nurse, if possible. But it is difficult to make them believe I am a nice guy, and not the same person they see at the hospital.
The floor nurses already labled me as "stuck up" and "firey", and think twice before paging me for something simple because they do not want to hear my "smart alec" remarks. I realy feel bad when the floor nurse pages me, and quickly says, "I am very sorry to page you Dr. Leukocyte, I know you are very busy but......." I realy feel bad for the nurses. I am not like that. I do not like to be labled as something I am realy not. It just sometimes it gets VERY overwhelming. When I get 3 pages at the same time (one from the floor nurse who wants me to come up and deal with Mr. x'S Chest Pain, the other form the ICU nurse who is saying that Mrs. x is having severe SOB now) all while I am trying my best to admit the 4 patients I have in the ER as fast as I can........IT IS CRAZY, and sometimes I cannot help but "lose my sophistication" with the nurses.
Do you guys also behave differenlty when in the hospital?
This is specialy bothering me since I am a single guy who would love to hook up with a nurse, if possible. But it is difficult to make them believe I am a nice guy, and not the same person they see at the hospital.
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