Opinions (or differences of opinions) aren't (necessarily) attacks.
Although some newsgroups can get pretty bad.
This newsgroup is pretty tame comparatively speaking.

I see other professionals (medical or other) on other support newsgroups.
They usually stay "low key" and pop in with helpful information, where they
can.
Not much "diploma" or "professional" "flag waving", unless one wants to (try
to) "pull rank" in the heat of a difference of opinion.
;-)
J

With the exception of one nurse I like nurses.

When I was in my hospital room following the second kidney surgery, I asked
a (temporary) nurse to help me move a little higher up in the bed. She
grabbed my left arm and standing behind me at the top end of the bed pulled
as hard as she could. I had stitches in my left side that felt like they
would tear. That was very painful, in spite of being on a morphine drip at
the time. I spoke to the head of the nurses and detailed my experiences.
The temporary nurse never returned.

On the other hand, the nurses were really great and I appreciate all they
did. In my follow-up visits to Houston my wife and I looked up my nurses
and we personally thanked each one of them. We got some great hugs and big
grins in return. We wrote some nice things about them and posted it on the
bulletin boards. We visited the head nurse and mentioned them by name,
making sure she knew how pleased we were with them. We also told my doctor
(Head of Urology Dept) how much we appreciated the nurses on that floor.

Jerry