![This Virginia nurse practitioner is slyer than a fox](/content/images/size/w600/2024/02/ffdpc-sign.webp)
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Examples of midlevels engaging in the unethical (and in some cases illegal) practice of misrepresenting themselves as doctors. The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) believes that a physician is an individual who has received a “Doctor of Medicine,” “Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine,” or an equivalent degree (eg, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ‘MBBS’) following successful completion of a prescribed course of study from a school of allopathic or osteopathic medicine.
![This Virginia nurse practitioner is slyer than a fox](/content/images/size/w600/2024/02/ffdpc-sign.webp)
![Why midlevel supervision is an occupational hazard for physicians: the continued saga of Sarah Erny, DNP](/content/images/size/w600/2024/02/radioactive-caduceus.jpg)
![No one's actually practicing medicine at Snow Family Medicine](/content/images/size/w600/2023/12/snow-family-medicine-fb-banner.jpg)
![That awkward moment when a "Top Physician" is actually a nurse practitioner](/content/images/size/w600/2023/12/South-Jersey-Magazine-Krystal-Briglia.webp)
![Where's the pediatrician at Natural Choice Pediatrics?](/content/images/size/w600/2023/12/ncp-headshots-1.webp)
![Get your liposuction done by "Doctor" Secil Schodroski, Part 2: Sketchy supervision by a sketchy neurosurgeon](/content/images/size/w600/2023/11/drsecil1_20231111.mp4_snapshot_00.06.610.webp)
![Get your liposuction done by "Doctor" Secil Schodroski](/content/images/size/w600/2023/10/stlthwc-google-cover-201811.webp)
![There's no MD at "Now Care MD"](/content/images/size/w600/2023/10/NowCareMD-flyer-cover.webp)
![Meet the "highly skilled doctors" at 45 Urgent Care](/content/images/size/w600/2023/09/45UC-FB-20230917.jpg)
![If you're bothered by this, go to medical school](/content/images/size/w600/2023/09/question-mark-meme.webp)
![Trio of butthurt nurse practitioners sue California attorney general for the right to call themselves "Doctor"](/content/images/size/w600/2023/07/palmer-vs-bonta-plaintiffs.webp)
![South Carolina newspaper names an NP as the "Best Family Physician"](/content/images/size/w600/2023/06/Palmetto-Primary-Care-Physicians-best-fnp-20230529.jpg)
![Northwell Health Emergency Medicine congratulates a PA for becoming "the newest doctor in town"](/content/images/size/w600/2023/06/Northwell_Health_logo.webp)
![Imposter Doctors, the sequel to Patients at Risk, has been released](/content/images/size/w600/2023/05/Imposter-Doctors-feature.webp)
!["Doctor" of Nursing Practice: the laughingstock of academia and medicine](/content/images/size/w600/2023/02/my-dnp-trump.webp)
!["Doctor" Jakeyla Reed, DNP flaunts her critical care "training", takes dump on Internal Medicine physicians](/content/images/size/w600/2023/02/dr.jakeylareed_7201987654198512939_snapshot_00.08.940.webp)
![California DNP gets slammed with $20,000 fine for calling herself a "doctor"](/content/images/size/w600/2022/11/sarah-erny-dnp-cover.webp)
![Halloween midlevel meme compilation](/content/images/size/w600/2022/10/medical-pumpkin.webp)
!["Physician-founded" scrubs company Jaanuu features a "Doctor" in its latest ad](/content/images/size/w600/2022/10/jaanuu-neela-mayberry-cover.webp)
![Where's the doctor at Dr. Pales Healthcare?](/content/images/size/w600/2022/08/dr-pales-cover.jpg)
![Kansas hospital celebrates midlevels on National Women Physicians Day](/content/images/size/w600/2022/02/ku_st_francis_nwpd_snapshot_01.45.jpg)
![Will the real doctor please stand up?](/content/images/size/w600/2022/01/drkorinneliana_doctor_tiktok_7051060862009937199_snapshot.jpg)
![I'm a doctor, the badge says so!](/content/images/size/w600/2021/11/animal-crossing-sherb-doctor.jpg)