Yelling, curses, insults: All in a day's work for docs, nurses

Oh...if the public only knew what goes on behind the scenes in hospitals!! Highly educated nurses, nurses with Masters Degrees, are fleeing at breakneck speed from the bedside due to the degrading treatment at the hands of some physicians. Hospital administrators reply to nurses plea's for help..."Sorry, but they're the one's who bring in the money. Just try to deal with it the best you can". Physician's with problems such as bi-polar disorder are permitted to walk onto the patient floors while in a manic state and berate, degrade, and become physical with nurses, while supervisors are powerless to put an end to it. Hospital attorneys tell nurses that they can do nothing about the situation because the physician's haven't broken any laws, the nurses aren't compelled to work at that particular job and are free to leave whenever they choose, and there was no "sexual harrassment" involved so there is "no case". Incidents are routinely swept under the rug. And now the AMA, the "Good Ole Boy Network", wants a moratorium on putting guidelines in place to control this behavior. In nursing school we were actually taught "Doctor-Nurse Speak" which is a way of communicating with physicians so that their ego's aren't bruised. God forbid that some physicians feel a nurse may understand the "secrets" of anatomy, physiology, microbiology, immunology, genetics, psychology, pharmacology, and the other sciences which are required of professional nurses. Please be assured that this isn't true of ALL physicians but far too many fall into the category which prompted a set of guidelines necessary to keep nurses safe while on the job. Throwing surgical instruments across the O.R. isn't even news anymore in the world of hospital nursing. With some physicians that is an everyday occurrence. The majority of physician's would never even think of "accidentally" slipping with the scalpel and cutting the nurse's hand during an operation but this has occured more often than the public could ever imagine in their wildest dreams. Nurses have refused to "scrub in" with certain physicians because these "accidents" have been known to occur while assisting certain physicians who "have a bone to pick" with a nurse. Yes, law suits have come out of this, and other merely degrading, abusive behavior, but the lawsuits that make it to the courtroom occur between 2 physicians, not between a physician and a nurse. And why do nurses stay and take this abuse? It's not because we like it! It's not because "we ask for it". It's because we went into the nursing profession dedicated to "the art AND science of nursing". The difference here lies in the fact that most physicians don't understand the difference between "art" and "science". Both doctors and nurses are schooled in the "science" of their respective professions yet only the nurses have been educated in the "art" involved in caring for a human being. CARING is the cornerstone of nursing. Maybe if those physicians who feel free to display any and all of their negative behavior in the direction of nurses would understand more of the "art" of their profession we would keep the most experienced and educated nurses at the bedside. Maybe if hospitals weren't run by "bean counters" who care more about their perspective on who "brings in the money", and subsequently harbors these "money makers" from legal action, there would be more nurses at the bedside of the "customers". Yes, "customers"! We've been told to treat the patients as "customers". So let the AMA postpone the guidelines for another year.
That's just one more year for those physicians in question to display the inappropriate behavior that they are known for and which brought this situation into the public eye.