Is raising minimum wage nationwide a horrible idea?

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Euphoria14 said:

darkknightkryta said:

Nurses do far more than any doctor does.  There's actually a push here in Canada to let nurses prescribe more medication because they are that good(They recently got more power to do so).  They're as needed as the doctors who cut people up, or diagnose.  Why is there a huge pay discreprency of nurses vs doctors (Family doctors really, I understand you're point with surgeons) when nurses do what doctors can't?  Should doctors get more?  Of course, but there's a difference between paying a family doctor 300k a year vs 40k for a nurse.

Sorry to cut out the rest of your response but I felt the need to respond to this one.

My fiance is a nurse. She has worked in a dpediatric office and now does personal in home care for a 4-year old boy with severe cerebral palsy. Her sister is also an RN working at Stony Brook Hospital on Long Island.

Neither of them would EVER try to say they do more than a doctor can or that a doctor can't do what they can.

 

In order to even become a doctor you first need to do the same same schooling and pass the same tests a nurse does. To say a nurse could do what a doctor can't is ludicrous, when in fact it a doctor who can do what a nurse cannot.

No no no, they are at the patient's side during any time they need them. Therefore they can do everything a doctor does! Because administering medicine and checking up on patients to make sure they're still ok = years and years of identical training via medical school, residencies, and fellowships