You are NOT just a hairdresser! If you take pride in your work, don't say it like that! Did you know that dermatologists stop at care accidents and hassle my husband (a paramedic) because "I'm a doctor." God help us all. Maybe he can treat the scars. We should all feel our jobs are worthwhile-right now, I can personally say that I desperately need you!
I only added the part about my job because with the rest of what I wrote, I also wanted to remind people that there are medical people out there who are caring and continue to be caring even after the new diploma wears off.

My patients need me, but sometimes I need my patients. I had one very special patient who came from across the country for resection of a brain tumor in the center of his brain through his nose (we do this where I work). Long story short, he and I became buddies for his stay. However, once he left the ICU I had no clue what happened to him or how he did. One day someone yells down the hall that someone is in the hall and wants to see me. I'm thinking the worst. There he stands with his wife looking healthier than anyone should. He was a bicycling enthusiast before, but was now biking 90 miles a day (hello-never in my life have I biked that long combined!) He gave me a card with a long letter inside. I carry it to work and sometimes read it when I feel that I'm not doing anything special or good enough, or we lose a patient.
Anyway, I needed to add that because I know that everyone on this board could write a book about crappy response from the medical profession. I could too, I just don't admire them based on only their academic accomplishments (graduating) and am free to tell them what only runs through the heads of others. Imagine being responsible for making sure that no doctors break patients while they learn-HELLO. (Any doctor is used to nurses being critical, bitchy, and downright confrontational when it comes to patient care and I'm not there to shore up their self-esteem during their residency. They don't even bat an eye.) They have to prove to me that they're good and they should have to do the same to y'all.
So remember the "I stop at emergency scenes because I'm a doctor"-haven't-touched-a-patient-in-twenty-years specialist and be proud of what you do. You're only "just" a hairdresser if you really do't give a **** about how well you do, and I doubt that's true!
Lori Lee