When doctors mistreat nurses

Nor is that mistreatment always contained behind the scenes. A few years back while I was in the recovery room following outpatient surgery, the surgeon who’d just operated on me came in and launched a tirade againt the RR nurse. He had told her he wanted to see me again in 2 weeks; all she did was ask if he wanted one of his partners to handle the follow-up since he was on vacation that week. Obviously I don’t know the full context of their relationship, but he seemed incredibly and inappropriately angry and condescending. She just stood there and took it. That surgeon was, and remains, the department chairman.