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Neurology: how hard could it possibly be?
It can't be that hard to learn neurology from scratch, right?
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.
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Vent mismanagement
This patient would have died if there wasn't an ER physician around to clean up this "ICU" NP's mess.
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Copious vaginal discharge
How exactly can you work at an urgent care without ever encountering a patient with vaginal discharge?
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HIPAA violation
"I just don't feel right using Gmail to communicate private information with the patient." You know what NP Mutembete, we have to agree with you 100% on that one! I have a sneaking suspicion that the United States Department of Health and Human Services does too.
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Where would you go from here?
A real fucking doctor, that's where!
TikTok
PMHNP student: It's all about the money
Well, so much for practicing in underserved areas and increasing access to mental health care. It's clear where this TikTok PMHNP student's priorities lie...in a pile of money, of course! Isn't it ironic that the general public likes to perennially hate on physicians
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Overstepping FNP student gets put in her place
Openly contradict your attending in front of a patient? Bad, bad idea.
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All by myself
Independent practice is all fun and games until you need a physician to bail you out.
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"Looking for anti anxiety med that will not have weight gain property"
Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
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How frustrating it is to work with Psychiatric NPs
Originally posted on Reddit by u/cmarie22345 I’m a clinical social worker and provide therapy and evaluations to children and adolescents. All of my clients are on some sort of medication...they’re also on Medicaid which puts them in the unfortunate spot of having to use lower income
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Anyone here work in hemotology?
Anyone here have a working spell checker? Usually, specialists tend to respect you more if you know how to spell their specialty correctly (ophthalmology might get a pass here 😜). In any case, the last thing I would do would be to describe a patient with chronic fatigue and drenching sweats
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Get high with the Marijuana Doctor
This one had us chortling for a good while. The Marijuana Doctor? If you were hoping for an actual doctor, i.e. a physician, you're out of luck. Marijuana Doctor Nerfis Elminowski joins the ever-increasing ranks of Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree holders (ab)using their "