“Why not become a doctor?” This is the burning question that at least one of your loved ones or best
friends will probably ask you, and not just once, but many times over. You may even ask it of
yourself. The answer, however, will be a personal one. The health care team is composed of doctors,
nurses, therapists, social workers, nursing assistants, pharmacists, and a whole ancillary staff of
nonlicensed personnel. Why not become a doctor? Because you want to be a nurse.
“Why do you want to be a nurse?” This is another one of those nagging questions from wellmeaning
friends and loved ones. You can usually explain yourself and move on. When someone asks
you why you would want to be a nurse, the answer is that you want to make a difference in the quality
of someone’s life every day!
Those who choose medicine as a career do so because they want to help people, but more so
because they want to be involved in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. They want to be part of
the act of curing someone. Doctors have the advantage of having a longer term relationship with a
patient than most nurses. Doctors will see the patient from the initial diagnosis through to the cure or
through the course of long-term treatment. They receive their emotional rewards when the patient is
cured or learns to cope with an illness and make the appropriate lifestyle changes.
Nurses are a part of this process as well, except that they never diagnose. (In some instances, nurse
practitioners who have been specifically trained to do so can diagnose illnesses in patients, but as a
rule, nurses do not diagnose.) They collaborate with the physician and coordinate the scientific
information about the disease with the patient’s ability to cope, to understand, and to respond to the
treatment. The nurse usually has a more limited experience with the patient according to where she
practices. This might be a two- to four-day hospital stay and the nurse has a short time to participate
in the care. Consequently, the nurse may not see the full results of her efforts, while the doctor will.
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