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>Doctors are egotistical moronsSo are nurses. The entire team-based care approach is to give allied health professions (basically only nurses) an 'attaboy' for doing their job.
>Practical work handled by nursesIt's their job, which many of them don't even do anymore. I actually had a nurse say to me last week that she doesn't do blood draws. To be fair, she is in a hospital setting that employs phlebotomists, but that got me thinking, what are we paying these people $30+ an hour to do. Aides are cleaning up the poop, sitters are monitoring the crazies, techs are handling the diagnostics, phlebotomists are doing labs, dietary the food, housekeeping the regular cleaning of linens, and more. A nurse's job can be done by a doctor - if docs needed to, they could administer medications, answer family members on call, assess patients more frequently, and more.
>The place would collapse without nursesThis is one of the most agitating refrains that makes me resent the power the AMA gives the ANA. See above. The purpose of nursing is to free up providers to see more patients and generate more revenue (or "help more people," if that's your thing). With a little bit of training for the administrative side of things (where things are located, how to assemble, etc), the average doctor can do 100% of a nurse's job. Not so for nurses larping as doctors.
>Doctors should listen to patients morePerhaps, but the system is set up to punish doctors that do not do defensive medicine and presume that patients are malingering. Kind of sucks, really. However, docs should not listen to nurses, they don't have the knowledge base and generally have no idea what they are talking about, and a court will not accept "I was going off what the nurse told me" as a legal defense. Plus, when nurses go off with their boomer-like medical opinions, it undermines confidence in the care the doctor provides. There are some good nurses, but far less than people think.
