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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.
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Nurse Practitioner Sentenced to 20 Years, Ordered to Pay More Than $52 Million in Restitution
Nurse Practitioner Sentenced to 20 Years, Ordered to Pay More Than $52 Million in RestitutionA Waxahachie nurse practitioner was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in federal prison and ordered to repay more than $52 million in restitution for his role in a health care fraud conspiracy, announced Acting U.S.
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Ski town NP unaware of indications for surgical referral for clavicle fracture
Originally posted on Reddit Long before I ever was aware of the problems with mid-level education and practice, I had my own run-in with a poorly trained NP. This was back about 20 years ago before there were any online diploma mills and direct-entry NP programs. When I was 18
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Physician Assistants are now "Physician Associates"
And physicians shall now be referred to as Supreme Physician Commanders.
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CVS nurse practitioner allegedly refuses to provide medical care to police officer
CVS nurse allegedly tells officer she “hates cops” and that he needs to leave because he was carrying a firearmA nurse practitioner at a CVS location in New Jersey allegedly told a police officer visiting the MinuteClinic that she essentially hated police officers.Law Enforcement TodayGregory Hoyt Recently, a story
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The mythical DEA Schedule I license
Your heroin is ready for pickup at the pharmacy.
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Any ortho NPs here?
This is the kind of basic medical knowledge that gets beat into young doctors' brains with the pointy part of the tibial tuberosity.
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The NP diploma mills are bursting at the seams
Have you ever heard of a US medical school telling an accepted applicant "sorry, you're accepted, but we don't have room for you...good luck reapplying next year?" It's certainly not "common practice" - in fact, it would be virtually
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A tale of three midlevel mistakes in the ED
Anonymous emergency physician submission I’ve made it a priority to see every NP/PA patient, even at the expense of picking up new patients of my own. In the past month I’ve caught the following errors: 1. Patient with known posterior compartment injury of the thigh, recently discharged
EMG/NCS cases
Anonymous physician submission This is a series of case that highlight how midlevels can overall increase the cost to the medical system. I work in a large academic center where midlevels are the predominate primary care "provider". I get several orders for EMG/NCS (a test of the
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My experience as an M1 patient of an NP
Re-shared from Reddit This may be long, so I apologize. I just felt like I needed to tell this story and felt this page was the most appropriate. For about the past year and a half now, I have been having an issue of my hands getting very red, swollen,
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NP is perplexed by patient's question
If anyone knows the answer, please let Shelly know!