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Nurse Practitioner Convicted of $200M Health Care Fraud Scheme

NP Elizabeth Hernandez, 45, of Homestead, signed thousands of orders for medically unnecessary orthotic braces and genetic tests, resulting in fraudulent Medicare billings in excess of $200 million.

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Puzzled nurse practitioner consults Facebook for a patient with critical hyperkalemia

It's anyone's guess whether the patient in question is dead or alive.

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Meet the "highly skilled doctors" at 45 Urgent Care

When only one out of the three "highly skilled doctors" you claim to employ is an actual physician, perhaps you should re-consider your ad campaign.

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If you're bothered by this, go to medical school

We're bothered by NP Julie's sheer lack of self-awareness.

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Newly minted PMHNP seeks board-certified psychiatrist to "pacify" Oklahoma regulators for 200 bucks a month

We're not sure who's more delusional - the NP who posted this job offer, or any physician who's crazy enough to risk their medical license for 200 dollars a month.

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Nurse practitioner puts the D and P in DNP

You're going to need some eye bleach after reading this article. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Trio of butthurt nurse practitioners sue California attorney general for the right to call themselves "Doctor"

Why not spend your time, energy, and money on applying to medical school instead so you can eventually become a real doctor?

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Insubordinate NP student goes behind cardiologist's back, sends patient to ER instead of home

We apologize in advance if you go into supraventricular tachycardia while reading this article.

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South Carolina newspaper names an NP as the "Best Family Physician"

It's inexcusably disgusting for a practice with the word "physicians" in its name to try and pass off a midlevel nurse practitioner as a family medicine physician.

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Border Patrol NP fails to send child with 104.9° fever to hospital, child dies in custody

What is it with grossly incompetent NPs failing to recognize high fevers and critical illness in children?

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Northwell Health Emergency Medicine congratulates a PA for becoming "the newest doctor in town"

This is a slap in the face to every ER resident physician and attending emergency physician out there.

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Imposter Doctors, the sequel to Patients at Risk, has been released

Rebekah Bernard, MD, co-author of the book Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare, president of Physicians for Patient Protection (PPP), and a nationally recognized speaker and expert on physician wellness and the importance of physician-led care, has launched her highly-anticipated new book,

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PMHNP has a burning hatred for their supervising physician, wants to "catch this doc outside"

We can only hope that this PMHNP gets some professional psychiatric help - from a board-certified psychiatrist, of course.

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The pot calling the kettle black - NP social media edition

Maybe you wouldn't share pictures of your vaginal issues and rashes online. But your fellow midlevel NP colleagues seem to have no qualms about doing so!

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"Elite" NPs get butthurt about Pennsylvania Medical Society's promotion of physician-led care

Is that person in the white coat a physician, or a midlevel? These "elite" nurse practitioners take offense at the idea that patients should be able to easily tell the difference.

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"Doctor" of Nursing Practice: the laughingstock of academia and medicine

Whether you're a physician or a well-informed patient, now you know what kind of idiot you're dealing with when you hear a DNP nurse practitioner proudly proclaim that they're a "doctor" or "doctorally prepared".

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"Doctor" Jakeyla Reed, DNP flaunts her critical care "training", takes dump on Internal Medicine physicians

This ridiculously arrogant NP is full of so much hot air that she needs an endotracheal tube hooked up to continuous suction, stat!

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California DNP gets slammed with $20,000 fine for calling herself a "doctor"

Hopefully, this groundbreaking case against California DNP Sarah Erny will set a precedent nationwide for legislators and law enforcement to pursue, prosecute, and punish nurse practitioners and other midlevel providers who attempt to fraudulently represent themselves as doctors/physicians.

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PA insisted on seeing my daughter despite my repeated requests for a physician

As a patient, remember that you always have the right to ask to be seen by a physician. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Even on Thanksgiving.

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Alaska nurse practitioner convicted on 10 felony counts after prescribing ~4.5 million opioids

51-year-old midlevel NP Jessica Joyce Spayd of Eagle River prescribed ~4.5 million opioids with little to no medical justification causing addiction, suffering and deaths across Alaska.

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Halloween midlevel meme compilation

A collection of our favorite Spirit of Halloween midlevel memes scavenged from the internet, featuring NPs, NP students, PMHNPs, DNPs, PAs, and CRNAs!

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Women's Health NP is "at a lost" on urinalysis and cultures

If you have no idea how to interpret a female patient's urinalysis or urine culture and decide whether or not she needs treatment, you have no business working in Women's Health.

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Louisiana psychiatric NP arrested for third degree rape

Louisiana sheriff's detectives arrested PMHNP Brennan C. Bergeron, 29, after receiving a complaint that he allegedly raped a victim during an office visit at a local health care facility.

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Pompous PMHNP cries about salary

Go to medical school, complete a residency, and you too can get a physician salary!

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"Physician-founded" scrubs company Jaanuu features a "Doctor" in its latest ad

Call a spade a spade, and this "family primary care provider" for what he is - a midlevel, non-physician-provider.