13 Problems Only Nurses Will Understand

3. When You're A Male In The Profession And People Automatically Assume You're The Doctor

Cue €œGaylord Focker€ references and questions of sexual orientation. Thankfully, male nurses are more widely regarded as a norm now, but that doesn€™t stop people asking why you chose the profession in the first place €“ like it€™s completely out of the question for the beer-swigging, hunter-gatherer all men are obviously supposed to be. Women are from Venus, men are from Mars: well, nurses are nurses, and that€™s that.
 
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