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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?

Noctor Featured

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.

News

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,

Nurse Practitioner

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.

Nurse Practitioner

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!

Nurse Practitioner

"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.

Nurse Practitioner Featured

"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".

Nurse Practitioner Featured

"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.

Stories

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.

Noctor Featured

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!

Social Media Consults

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.

Nurse Practitioner

Pompous PMHNP cries about salary

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

Nurse Practitioner

"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.

News

White Karen NP goes berserk on pregnant black patient who wanted a work note

In the post-Roe v. Wade landscape of an America that has historically marginalized minority patients in healthcare, the mistreatment of black patients like Jillian by white midlevel nurse practitioners like Theresa Smigo cannot go unexcused or unpunished.

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Texas physician assistant arrested for unlawfully practicing medicine

This rogue midlevel allegedly used the identities of other physicians and medical personnel to conceal his continued practice of medicine even though his PA license was suspended.

Physician Assistant Featured

Physician assistant compares PPP president to a Nazi war criminal

If your argument relies on comparing someone to a Nazi like Josef Mengele, you're just an asshole with zero credibility.

Stories

Epilepsy patient and former phlebotomist recounts her mismanagement by a neurology NP

An unsupervised nurse practitioner's negligence results in disastrous consequences for an epilepsy patient, including loss of her job and a trip to the ER for status epilepticus.

Stories

Urgent care NP missed the diagnosis on myself, a pharmacist

A midlevel nurse practitioner's failure to recognize a classic textbook diagnosis results in unnecessary suffering for a patient.

Stories Featured

Dumb and Dumber: PMHNP student edition

NP programs should require their students to take an IQ test before admission so that they don't become the laughingstock of healthcare.

Stories

Liar, liar, pants on fire: PMHNP student edition

This story from an NP group on Facebook provides a valuable glimpse into the types of bottom-feeding scum being accepted into NP schools these days.

Social Media Consults

Cut out the middleman and consult Facebook yourself!

If you really need all the help you can get, then maybe you should see a residency-trained, board-certified physician.

News

Georgia NP sentenced to prison for complex telemedicine fraud scheme

Fraudulent orders included a knee brace for a leg amputee.