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Nurse practitioner puts the D and P in DNP
You're going to need some eye bleach after reading this article. Viewer discretion is advised.
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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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Trio of butthurt nurse practitioners sue California attorney general for the right to call themselves "Doctor"
Why not spend your time, energy, and money on applying to medical school instead so you can eventually become a real doctor?
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Insubordinate NP student goes behind cardiologist's back, sends patient to ER instead of home
We apologize in advance if you go into supraventricular tachycardia while reading this article.
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South Carolina newspaper names an NP as the "Best Family Physician"
It's inexcusably disgusting for a practice with the word "physicians" in its name to try and pass off a midlevel nurse practitioner as a family medicine physician.
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Border Patrol NP fails to send child with 104.9° fever to hospital, child dies in custody
What is it with grossly incompetent NPs failing to recognize high fevers and critical illness in children?
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Imposter Doctors, the sequel to Patients at Risk, has been released
Rebekah Bernard, MD, co-author of the book Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare, president of Physicians for Patient Protection (PPP), and a nationally recognized speaker and expert on physician wellness and the importance of physician-led care, has launched her highly-anticipated new book,
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PMHNP has a burning hatred for their supervising physician, wants to "catch this doc outside"
We can only hope that this PMHNP gets some professional psychiatric help - from a board-certified psychiatrist, of course.
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The pot calling the kettle black - NP social media edition
Maybe you wouldn't share pictures of your vaginal issues and rashes online. But your fellow midlevel NP colleagues seem to have no qualms about doing so!
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"Elite" NPs get butthurt about Pennsylvania Medical Society's promotion of physician-led care
Is that person in the white coat a physician, or a midlevel? These "elite" nurse practitioners take offense at the idea that patients should be able to easily tell the difference.
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"Doctor" of Nursing Practice: the laughingstock of academia and medicine
Whether you're a physician or a well-informed patient, now you know what kind of idiot you're dealing with when you hear a DNP nurse practitioner proudly proclaim that they're a "doctor" or "doctorally prepared".
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"Doctor" Jakeyla Reed, DNP flaunts her critical care "training", takes dump on Internal Medicine physicians
This ridiculously arrogant NP is full of so much hot air that she needs an endotracheal tube hooked up to continuous suction, stat!
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California DNP gets slammed with $20,000 fine for calling herself a "doctor"
Hopefully, this groundbreaking case against California DNP Sarah Erny will set a precedent nationwide for legislators and law enforcement to pursue, prosecute, and punish nurse practitioners and other midlevel providers who attempt to fraudulently represent themselves as doctors/physicians.