our places in the mix are different. We are not nurses because we are not as smart as Docs we have a totally different practice. I ran through the hospital many times at night to hop up on a patient who was having cardiac problems. When the doc came in they did not push us off and start yelling orders. They put themselves in a place to keep us from falling off the bed and asked where we were in this emergency. We did it together.

I've spent too many hours in the ED recently so I guess I don't always see things when they aren't hectic.

had 4 babies at home, 3 w midwife-doc team, last just midwives. the midwives were mostly in charge. (in fairness, that last 1 almost fell out.) had my 1st 1 in a hospital and learned my lesson.
most of the urgent care clinics around here use ap nurses. love em. i’d have 1 for my primary if that was available. they have a much better sense of humor than docs, usually, which means a lot to me.

til u get into specialties, they’re fine.

My father was a skilled and compassionate physician.

But -- I'm also certain that he couldn't have run his medical practice without the assistance of skilled medical professionals, e.g, lab techs, x-ray techs, medical assistants, nurses, staff who did the insurance and handled the patients. My father saw patients for maybe 10 minutes. The rest of the staff handled the other 50+ minutes of their visits.

Thank you AND TO THOSE ABOVE. This is just an unneeded argument these days. Gone are the days when we had to stand when the docs walk into the room. Way back in my nursing beginning I saw Dr.s walk up to a nurses station where she was charting and pull the chair out from under her rather than use the chair next to her. No problem, it was only a typical Doc. No more, they would not even think of doing that now.