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So I feel kinda frustrated with patients sometimes calling me the nurse or assistant. I've never have had this happen in previous residency training. I definitely look young and I am petite. Even when I introduce myself as Dr. X, it's not infrequent. Even happened today! I introduced myself to Dr. X and stuff and about 4 minutes later, the parent's mom calls me Dr. So and so's assistant. It's so frustrating! I do a great job, my attendings think I do a great job but this really bothers me. It's also not the first time. Do I correct them? Do I tell them hey I'm actually dr. so and so again? Not sure how to deal with it.
your post is the perfect example of why I realized I have nothing in common with ppl here and stopped posting....
why the F would you be frustrated? are you insecure? I can't even remember how many times i've accidentally worn nurse tech scrubs because I was so sleep deprived and just went on my day... hell, I did that just yesterday and got yelled at by a nurse to go wipe someone's a$s! got yelled at again 30 seconds later for not wearing a mask because of c-diff precautions before going into room... 1 minute later got yelled at again by the charge nurse telling me i should know better....
you know what i did? I apologized to both nurses, put on the mask, went into the room, spent 15 minutes or so literally wiping him and cleaning him... the poor guy had to pee. I call another tech and ask him to help me walk him to the bathroom, and I help the guy pee.
i then walk out the room, (btw, it's my pt) take off my mask, tell them my name is rachel, and sorry i wasn't familiar with what a tech does, however, i was on my way to see this pt because i was going to inform you he is c-diff negative x 3 and, and i'm d/cing him back today to his nursing home... and need them to get everything ready by noon (that particular nursing home won't take him back unless it's before noon) and I simply walked away...
in those 30 seconds i was telling them that, pretty much every tech and nurse and physician on the floor were staring at me as I was talking... their mouths wide open, completely speechless as I went back to the doc box to call case management and get the dude back to his nursing home
i can't even BEGIN to tell you how many apologies I got that day... the funny thing is that I "tried" to get offended after so many apologies so that I would look at least somewhat normal... but I just wasn't.. i was straight up with the nurse who yelled at me and came back to apologize to me (with a gift basket)... told her word for word: listen dude, I **** you not that I'm not offended, it's my f'ing pt and i'll do what it takes to get him to where he needs to get at... we're a team...at least 40 apologies in just a few hours to the point where I called the operator and had her start asking why the nurse was paging me, and if it was because the nurse wanted to say sorry, to please tell the nurse that rachel doesn't give 2 f's and that it's all good and I'm busy
when you start a thread about being called "nurse", and what's worse, when you see all these comments basically saying they know "what you're going through"... take a moment, sit down, and remind yourself that we're here for taking care of our patients... stop thinking about yourself... if it meant wiping his butt to get him out before noon, I'd wipe it twice...
Also, for the OP and everyone else, it says MD after your name... not God. stop thinking about yourselves and please start thinking about your patients...
i'm in no way trying to make myself seem better than you are... i'm not... i'm your average country girl who hopes she didn't offend anyone here on this thread...
but if you lose the ego, you may have a chance of being happy someday
hell i wish everyone thought i was a nurse... they'd at least stop catching me in the hallway to ask me some ******ed question about tyelenol or starting/stopping miralax