Americans ranked car dealers as less trustworthy than members of Congress in a recent Gallup poll.
Don’t car dealers deserve a little more respect than that?
Click here to read my column in The Sunday Wall Street Journal. And click here to read the survey from Gallup.
Ranking highest for honesty and ethics among professionals are nurses, pharmacists and doctors. Ranking better than you would think are bankers. And ranking worse than bankers are … journalists.
MichelleI have to agree; I’m glad that you were “honest” enough to claim that your own mother as being a member of the nursing profession. I’m curious about HER opinion though.
I also find your argument pretty weak. Most of the time doctors aren’t even around (especially in LTC); Nurses make decisions and take the heat when anything goes wrong; everybody is a critic (…..including journalists with a 30% low honesty rating for the profession.) I find that rich.
Pharmacists have it “phat.” Talk about a hands-off, lucative jobs – most with banker’s hours. If anything, they are more likely to be corrupted with all the “free swag” that comes their way – doctors included. Nurses usually don’t get these perks. A perk would include a scheduled break without interruption or a thank-you from managment (long-shot here…)
I’m a J-School graduate (2002); I went into nursing so I could actually get a job (Newsflash: NEWSED is dead.) Sure, there are bad apples (mostly management), in any profession BUT almost all of my peers take the responsibility (and the integral honesty) of the profession very seriously as they beat it into us in nursing school with a two-by-four.
“Character is doing the right thing, when no one is looking”
Give the profession their due. I dont see physicians or pharmacists wiping asses.
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December 9, 2012
You just did Nurses an injustice in your article. Do you really believe Nurses wait around for doctors to tell them what to do? Even though your mother was a Nurse you obviously do not know very much about the profession. Go visit an emergency room or a critical care unit and see what goes on and then you can re-evaluate your statement. When Nurses lie or don’t do their jobs people die.