I just started a job where apparently nurses are expected to put up with verbal abuse by physicians. I have already been warned that if I need to call a certain MD, I can expect to get "cussed out", no matter what the reason for the call. Actually yesterday AM an LPN put a call out to a doctor to let him know that a patient's 6:30AM blood sugar registered "high", meaning the actual blood sugar had to be greater than 550 mg/dl. The MD was unimpressed and told this nurse "not to call at 6:30AM again". Why are nurses expected to put up with this? I would have been tempted to ask this MD if he wanted to d/c the patient's blood glucose monitoring since he wasn't interested in knowing if it was critical anyways. After 24 years I almost can't take nursing anymore. And where are our nurse leaders in this? Obviously nursing management expects nurses to tolerate this or it would have been stopped long ago. It can't be left up to individual nurses, who won't be supported by their nurse managers anyways, to change this situation.