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Obnoxious family NP tells EMS that she has a "medical degree" in emergency medicine, interferes with scene
Narrator: She didn't have a medical degree.
Nurse Practitioner
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are the quintessential midlevel provider, coming in various flavors such as FNP, AGACNP, and PMHNP. Numbering ~325,000 in the US, these midlevels' education often consists of little more than an online diploma mill degree and 500 hours of clinical exposure, amounting to less than 5% of a physician's training. Yet, many states allow them to practice independently without physician supervision or oversight.
The chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine is a midlevel simp
Gee, I wonder, could there possibly be a difference between a physician versus someone who's not a physician?
Social Media Consults
Brilliant NP shares her scientific hypothesis on COVID-19 bioweapon research
Gain of function? More like loss of brain function.
Nurse Practitioner
Nurse practitioners demonstrate sterile surgical technique in classy Instagram liposuction video
Necrotizing fasciitis has never looked so good!
Stories
Nurse practitioner's stroke of genius: it's just vertigo!
Why give TPA when you can give Antivert instead?
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.
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