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How well do ER docs and nurses usually get along? Do the medical TV shows accurately portray this?

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How well do ER docs and nurses usually get along? Do the medical TV shows accurately portray this?

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No, they don’t. That is quite surprising, especially when you consider the tremendous range of relationships that exist between real doctors and nurses. Some are amicable and marked by mutual respect and affection, while others are overtly hostile and marked by backstabbing and a lack of cooperation. In spite of this variation, television writers have yet to accurately depict how nurses interact with doctors. Instead of giving their viewers fully-dimensional nurses, they present stereotyped images of either what they think nurses are like, or what they think their viewers want them to be. In doing so, they fail to capture some of the best and worst behavior I’ve witnessed. All too often, nurses are just made out to be handmaidens of the doctors, and their personalities are far more constrained than what I’ve seen in real life. Q: Why do so many doctors treat nurses so poorly? Aren’t they afraid the nurses will somehow retaliate? A: I think that physician abuse of nurses is less frequen

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