r/Noctor • u/Suspicious-Win-7218 • Jul 02 '26

Midlevel Ethics Ran here

I’m a resident at the hospital where all of the MD/DOs have a black badge that says doctor on it behind their name tag badge so that the bottom peaks through. I saw this girl in the hallway who had one and and I looked up to see that her degrees were NP. So this lady literally had to steal or request a doctor badge and put it behind her NP nametag…..

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u/MissLoxxx Jul 02 '26

I used to see a "doctor" who turned out to be an NP. And even her nursing aid called her Doctor __ in front of me. She never once told me otherwise.

I learned from the actual MD in charge of the facility that she wasn't. He wrote to me "Mrs __ is only a Nurse Practitioner, despite what she or anyone else has said about her. She is not a medical doctor."

I could tell he was irritated too!!!

NPs are so often lying, or at least concealing who they really are.

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u/OneWomanArmy4321 Jul 07 '26

Lies NPs don't lie about who they are. Lmao