06.18.07
Nurse blogging - at your own risk!
Over the weekend, real life got in the way of the blogging one so I have just begun (over coffee and toast) to catch up on some of my favorite sites before work. Interestingly two of my frequent reads cover similar types of subjects, but boy do they take different approaches. Kim is a fantastic advocate for nursing, and she makes no excuse for writing about her own experiences and for giving her opinion, letting us see the world from her point of view. She does this in a positive way and Emergiblog is a great place to visit over a cup of coffee, you are always likely to get a pretty good read. Dr Crippen on the other hand, is increasingly likely to make a nurse reading his blog splutter over her (or his coffee) and need a change of clothes despite the fact that they have only just got dressed!
For some reason Dr C has it in for nurses in a big way and sadly, if he can’t get you on content he will now resort to your spelling and punctuation inadequacies. No doubt he would have a field day with me, because though I am better educated than most, for some strange reason I am kind of grammar blind! I am not sure that my inadequacies with the comma and semi colon would ever have kept me out of medical school or indeed stopped me from becoming a doctor. Luckily for me my decision to be a nurse went back further than secondary school, and a nurse I became. I am no failed doctor, but I have during my career carried out duties and tasks which at some time would have been carried out by a doctor. Things like venepuncture (taking blood), was when I started my training, something that medical students and doctors did. Now we have people whose actual job it is to expertly take blood, but strangely this is not something you need A levels for, it is more about skills learned through training and practice. There are numerous tasks that were previously the territory of doctors but are done by others now, and for the good of the patient in terms of the time patients can be given while the job is done, level of skill and the frequency the task is done. At the same time there are jobs which are clearly the role of the doctor and in my humble opinion there is plenty of scope for the medical profession to concentrate on improving how they do those rather than continually attacking the words of nurse bloggers and nurses in general!
somedaynurse said,
June 18, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Dr. C is really funny! Maybe not so funny to work with, but his blog is great! Not as great as yours, of course, but good for a chuckle in the morning. Thanks for pointing it out.
My favorite line:
“I trained at a time when doctors were treated as God. Capital ‘G’ and singular.”
Julie said,
June 18, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Yes he is funny and I think he takes himself less seriously than some of his followers take him. I must learn to remain calm and not rise to the challenge he sets daily though!
Dr John Crippen said,
June 18, 2007 at 5:52 pm
For some reason Dr C has it in for nurses in a big way and sadly, if he can’t get you on content he will now resort to your spelling and punctuation inadequacies.
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Or both, Julie, or both.
No, I don’t normally have a go at people for spelling and grammar. My spelling is nothing to write home about, and I have perpetrated my share of grammatical howlers. But, on this occasion, there was an ad hominem attack from someone whose wirting was both offensive and illiterate.
Glass houses, glass houses.
John
Julie said,
June 18, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Indeed!
As my previous comment stated though John, while you have your tongue in your cheek others who visit you take themselves and you extremely seriously.
Also as I have learned, best not to retaliate if possible.
Charlie said,
June 24, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Doctors are terrified of nurses, they show that you don’t have to be from a privileged background, or have an enormous intellect to treat medical conditions.
The more highly trained nurses can become, the less superior and special doctors will seem, and there is no more hurtful thing to do to a doctor than dent his belief in his own self importance.
Antipodean dr said,
June 25, 2007 at 8:36 am
Plenty of us doctors are actually girls…or women, if you prefer.
I have also met plenty of nurses who were highly intellectual, and/or from privileged backgrounds. Many wanted a job that would involve working with and helping people, but didn’t want the responsibilities involved with being a doctor.