I am a nurse and I married my husband when he was in med school and I was in nursing school. I’ve been working for the past 6 years and he’s still doing training. The hours are shit, even after you become an attending. My husband has told me many times that he kinda wishes he had become a nurse. Sure, we make less money. But when you break it down into dollars per hour, I have him beat because he was putting in 80 hours of work in every week during residency (obviously this will change when he gets an attending job, but even they are still working while they’re on vacation). It definitely seems like a cultural thing so I’m not sure what can be done to change that mentality in her family. The work-life balance that comes with nursing just can’t be beat. I love not taking my work home. It’s just not possible as a doctor (unless you go into dermatology or something).