Nurse Practitioner
I'm a doctor, the badge says so!
Why waste years of your life in medical school when you can just get a badge that says "Doctor"?
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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.
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Nurse practitioners demonstrate sterile surgical technique in classy Instagram liposuction video
Necrotizing fasciitis has never looked so good!
The Midlevel Paradoxes
Compiled from Reddit 1. The Duality of Practice Paradox NPs: “We can do everything that a doctor does. We can diagnose, prescribe, and treat. We practice medicine!” Also NPs: “Nooo, it wasn’t malpractice I swear! I wasn’t practicing medicine, I was only practicing healthcare! You can’t hold
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"Dr." Sylvienash Moma, DNP's sketchy COVID-19 vaccines
Say Nada to DNP Moma's vaccines.
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"Dr." Gerald "Jay" Baltz, PMHNP and the tragedy of Stevie Ryan's death
Medicine 101: Don't sleep with your patients.
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"Dr." Erica Zelfand, ND
"Family physician"? How about fraudulent physician?
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"Dr." Carly Willeford, DNP, MS, FNP, BSN-BSW, RN
Who needs evidence-based medicine when you have the power of biblical principles and creation science?
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$200 for Sexual Bliss: "Doctor" Penny Lane / Eden Family Practice
It seems like with every new noctor we write about, the bar gets lower and lower. Today's feature, which comes from an anonymous tipster, is "Doctor" Penny Lane, of "Eden Family Practice" in Thorntown, Indiana. She offers "primary care to the entire family,
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"Dr." CeCe Brooks, DNP - "The Discovery Doc"
Whenever I'm feeling sad, I take out my medical school diploma and start caressing it.
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Boosting the Botox business with review fraud: Amanda Barrett-Azzano, DNAP, CRNA
This noctor is "board-certified in anesthesiology"!
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"Dr." Cheryl Winter, DCN, FNP-BC/APRN, RDN
Our next noctor by the name of Cheryl Winter certainly has no qualms about presenting herself as a doctor to potential patients. "Dr." is not only in her website's domain name, but also festooned across the website from the header to the footer. It's
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Words matter: Victory for anesthesiologists in New Hampshire
ASA Applauds New Hampshire Supreme Court’s Decision to Ban Nurses’ Use of Physician Term, AnesthesiologistThe American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) today applauds the New Hampshire Supreme Court for upholding the New Hampshire Medical Board’s decision that health care professionals using the term “anesthesiologist” must be licensed physicians and