Stories
Nurse practitioner's stroke of genius: it's just vertigo!
Why give TPA when you can give Antivert instead?
News
Sound Physicians and Memorial Health reverse course on midlevel-led patient care policy
Well well well...it turns that following a massive social media uproar on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and elsewhere, Sound Physicians and Memorial Health University Medical Center leadership have decided to backtrack and publicly announce that they have decided not to implement a new patient care policy in which midlevel, non-physician
Stories
Brilliant nurse practitioner writes the most useless consult note ever
The "cardiology" FNP who wrote this note is an utter waste of hospital oxygen who needs to be fired.
News
Sound Physicians pushes midlevel-led patient care at Memorial Health University Medical Center - Savannah, GA
How can you maintain excellent care by putting non-physician midlevel providers in charge of patients?
Nurse Practitioner
Nurse practitioner: primary care isn't rocket science
You know what isn't rocket science? Getting a nurse practitioner degree.
Stories
Misguided midlevel malice: genius CNM diagnoses diverticulitis on CT
Certified nurse idiot tries to take on another midlevel, fails epically.
Physician Assistant
Deranged midlevel goes berserk on PPP physician's Facebook page, starts making veiled threats
21 years into the 21st century, one would think that most people who don't reside under a rock would be familiar with the old adage (warning?) that everything on the internet is permanent. But as with everything in healthcare and medicine, there are exceptions. Consider, for example, an
Stories
Comedy of errors: a medical student's list of midlevel blunders
28 short stories of midlevels messing up, badly.
Social Media Consults
CBC, Hgb, MCV, it's all gibberish to me!
Anyone who can't even read a CBC shouldn't be allowed anywhere near live patients.
Nurse Practitioner
Peak professionalism: TikTok Pediatric NP shows us what's under the scrubs, literally
We're going to need an eyeball cleanse, stat.
Stories
Radiologist saves a patient from midlevel mismanagement
Originally posted on Reddit. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. Radiologist here with a little anecdote of an interaction I had a while ago with a midlevel in the emergency department. I come into work for my shift and open up my first case. Late-20s female presents to the ED
News
Does the AAPA really think physicians are this dumb?
If the AAPA truly respected its physician colleagues, it wouldn't be calling PAs "physician associates" and assuming all physicians want to associate with them.