Alexandra Robbins Quote

In 1967, psychiatrist Leonard Stein described the nurse’s role in an essay entitled The Doctor–Nurse Game. The object of the game, he said, was for a nurse to make her recommendations appear to be initiated by the physician. . . . The nurse who does see herself as a consultant but refuses to follow the rules of the game in making her recommendations, has hell to pay. The outspoken nurse is labeled a ‘bitch’ by the surgeon. The psychiatrist describes her as unconsciously suffering from penis envy.