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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We're not sure who's more delusional - the NP who posted this job offer, or any physician who's crazy enough to risk their medical license for 200 dollars a month.
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You're going to need some eye bleach after reading this article. Viewer discretion is advised.
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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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We apologize in advance if you go into supraventricular tachycardia while reading this article.
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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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What is it with grossly incompetent NPs failing to recognize high fevers and critical illness in children?
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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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We can only hope that this PMHNP gets some professional psychiatric help - from a board-certified psychiatrist, of course.
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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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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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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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This ridiculously arrogant NP is full of so much hot air that she needs an endotracheal tube hooked up to continuous suction, stat!