Public and Media Misperceptions: A Robust Illustration of Ignorance

[OB1🤙]

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http://www.slate.com/id/2274428/

The thing speaks for itself.

Go get your letter-writing on.

 

[Coastie]

http://www.slate.com/id/2274428/

The thing speaks for itself.

Go get your letter-writing on.

And the murse mafia continues to flex its muscle.

That article is so far off it's not even funny...comparing MD to RN salaries, saying that docs don't care about pain, saying that nurses primarily treat pain....

The attacks keep comin', faster and faster. What will YOU (ASA) do about it?

 

[R-35]

sigh 🙁

 

[lane]

absolutely disgusting

 

[Ronin2258]

Sorry, I have to call it:

Just waiting for the last of the paperwork to complete so I can start work, get paid, and send some funds to the ASA PAC.

 

[diceksox]

I wish more of these benevolent, MENSA card holding nurses had been around when I was an intern. Instead, I more frequently heard "that's not my job" or "we don't do that, if you have a problem contact my nurse manage " or "my shift ends in 10 minutes" while I would ask for help caring for my patients.

 

[Idiopathic]

man im a big fan of Slate and thats easily one of the more propogandized articles ive ever read...not even close to journalism or resally even an op-ed piece

 

[Coastie]

I wish more of these benevolent, MENSA card holding nurses had been around when I was an intern. Instead, I more frequently heard "that's not my job" or "we don't do that, if you have a problem contact my nurse manage " or "my shift ends in 10 minutes" while I would ask for help caring for my patients.

Like the militant-murse.org boys have been quoted as saying, "intern year is where MDAs learn what we know as nurses", so it's no wonder the nurses didn't help you!

 

[Laryngophed]

He sounds at least partially jaded by his wife's experience. It's always easy to paint the big, bad, greedy doctor in a negative light.

 

[WholeLottaGame7]

You know, since a floor nurse pushing 4mg morphine is pretty much the same thing as ESIs and blocks. I'm sure they both classify as "routine medical tasks."

Unfortunately, there are just a lot of misperception when it comes to health care. Some people expect a doctor to show up every time they push the nurse call button, so when that doesn't happen clearly the nurse that brings the medicine is the one that "cares" about the patient. The general public is also clueless as to the relative educational experiences and knowledge set required of the different careers in medicine.