Beautiful morning

I worked last night, and I had a pretty good night, except for one incident as the shift started.  As I drove home this morning, with my windows down and the radio up, smelling the honeysuckle, I thought about how much I owe to my wonderful neuro, Dr. Krusz.  This is the best I have felt in years.  And Dr. K isn't just a great clinician, he's a great guy.  I'm generally observant about how MDs and DOs treat their nurses, and he seems to really value his nurse.  He never rushes, he always is empathetic, he seems to understand everything about the life of a migraneur.  And most important, he's very concerned with his patients' pain.  All of this leads me to the rest of my thought, and the incident last night.  There are wonderful doctors in the world.  I'm fortunate enough to be a patient of 3 of these wonderful people (neuro, PCP, and OB/Gyn). 

But then, there are the other ones.  The ones that don't want to be woken up, no matter how dire the situation, the ones who never pass up a chance to be crappy to a nurse, the ones who are in general, a**holes.  I have worked in many hospitals, and I have encountered examples of the best and the worst.  Unfortunately, the bad ones still get patients.  Why?  Are they nice to their patients and then turn into the Wicked Witch when around nurses and their staff?  I think so, in many cases.  It's truly sickening.  Which is one reason that my personal policy is to not give my hard-earned money to anyone that cannot treat a nurse with respect.  It's a policy that has served me well, and I usually have great doctors.  I chose a surgeon for that very reason one time, driving a long distance to see someone my OB declared, "a great guy and a great surgeon" when the one more convenient to me was just awful to nurses. 

I've also noticed that female physicians tend to suffer from megalomania more frequently.  Okay, no flaming and no nasty emails.  It's an opinion, and I have a right to it.  And I also don't want to hear about how they have a harder time in medical school, and therefore develop the bitch persona.  I went through law school and passed the Bar without feeling that I was in an Old Boys' Network.  I'm just saying that in my experience, a nurse is more likely to be treated like crap by a female physician, and that they tend to have personal issues more often.  Which again brings me back to last night.  I can't divulge details due to the possibility that someone somewhere might recognize the situation, and thus I would be violating federal law, but it was definitely a case of witchy with a 'b'.

So, what should you take from this rambling epistle?  If you want to find a good doctor, ask a nurse!