(please note the *asterisks of sarcasm*)
"You're so SMART! Why didn't you go to medical school?"
This comment doesn't just come from little old people who don't know any better. Residents who are younger than I am have said this crap to me.
Just THINKING about this comment makes my head want to explode. Please, people. Don't EVER say that to a nurse.
I'm a nurse because I want to be a NURSE. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would have been a doctor. By god, if I wanted to be a freaking FIRE TRUCK I WOULD BE A GODDAMN FIRETRUCK!
Ok, sorry, rant over.
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Yeaaaaaaaa, heard that a lot.
It sucks
So, um, what kind of firetruck would you be?
Pumper? Ladder?
agree agree agree agree! 100 bajillion times over! people be stupid.
nurse8
Right, cause most people who got into nursing school, finished school, and passed NCLEX are idiots.
*sigh*
I could have been a doctor, but wasn't in the mood for $250k in debt or waiting til I'm in my 30s to start my career. I also like being OFF on my days off.
And a man is a Nurse because he couldn't cut it in Medical School. Yeah, right.
Tex- Or because he's gay. Duh. There's no such thing as a straight male nurse.
Or perhaps you could see it for the compliment that it likely is. Just a thought.
So, how does one become a fire truck?
Think about it: Hot, muscular men driving you around while you make lots of noise, being washed and maintained by said hot firefighters on a regular basis, being the center of attention...the perks go on. =)
I was told that on my very first day of clinicals ever. Worse, the woman who said that to me was the RN I was working with! I was so surprised, I don't even remember how I responded.
When I was a kid I asked my Mom that question - since she was a nurse (and later got her MSN)and my Dad was a doctor. My Mom is every bit as smart as my Dad so I was like "Why not be a doctor?" Her answer was " In the early 60's women were treated like crap and I never even considered becoming one".
That got me thinking. How many RN's back then would have become MD's had the climate been different? Probably a lot since the ratio of male:female MD's is about 50%.
Just like the ratio of male:female RN's has gone up.
People can be what they want (for the most part) without dealing with sterotypes as much.
I went to med school but left after a year because I decided it wasn't worth starving for 6 years (not the US, no way of getting money in GB in the 70s if your parents didn't have it). In retrospect - one of the better decisions I made as I look at a lot of my peers and the $£@* they deal with and have suffered. I don't have buckets full of money - but I do have a lot of other things I wouldn't have had. I think it was a fair enough swap. Doesn't make me any less of a person...
I wanna be a fire truck, but every time I mention it I end up locked up and talking to shrinks for a week.
How about, "you're so smart, why didn't you become an officer?"
Me: "No thanks, I like working for a living." Same response from my husband. He may make less than the officers, but his headaches are far smaller.
"I make more money as a nurse !" would have been pretty accurate too....
I'm sure she'd love being sprayed down whilst being backed into the garage by hot guys.
- hubbins
My wife left nursing to go to medical school. Not a bad choice - better autonomy.
@stevenking: yeah, but you have to want to be a doctor. I don't. I like being a nurse. Nurses are much more than just the "doctor's handmaiden" these days. Also, nurse practitioners in my state are autonomous. Where I work we have a resident who used to be a nurse. She's miserable.
I feel you! People used to ask me all the time why on earth I became a medic when I could have been a nurse . . .
Yeah, that's a pretty common misapprehension. Perhaps it's because some people see a thin line between a nurse and a doctor since the two usually operate in the same workplace. Having said that, the two professions coexist harmoniously, so there shouldn't be any friction in the first place.
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