Quik Clot...lighten up, I have many male friends that are making the transition from the street into nursing and I work with many nurses whom I respect highly...I was being sarcastic, evidently it is hard to pick up ones tone on a forum...didn't mean to nor was I trying to offend anyone.
Like I said, nurses are very important and serve a vital role in medicine. In many cases they are the ones who actually provide the care, especially on going care in care facilities and ICU's and such. In practice they very often make the same critical decisions that the MDs make, this is especially true when you watch the interaction between new residents and nurses. I'm sure you've seen it in your experience, the nurse guides the pt's care, catch teh new MD's (or vetran MD for that matter) mistakes.