[NPInfo] Clinical doctorate

[SusanAPR at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/20/2007 9:54:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
shelbyhavens at hotmail.com writes:
The caption would read "my patient has chest pain - what are Martha Rogers' 
treatment guidelines for chest pain!?!"
Now I KNOW we have been here before recently.
I will tolerate differences of opinion, but I will not tolerate denigration 
of something/someone I see value in by name.

So what can I do about it?
Nothing, I know.
This can be repeated over and over again, with participants seemingly having 
learned nothing about professional behavior.

You want to be a robot?  Be a robot?
You want to be a physician, for Pete's sake, go be physician and get the heck 
out of nursing.

When I am seriously ill, yes, I want someone who knows their medicine.  But I 
sure as hell don't want an arrogant medical SOB who thinks the health care 
world rises and sets on his beliefs.  It used to be physcians who more commonly 
made that mistake.  Congratulations.

Susan Romeo, NP
Pediatrics, Holistic Health