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Anonymous emergency physician submission I’ve made it a priority to see every NP/PA patient, even at the expense of picking up new patients of my own. In the past month I’ve caught the following errors: 1. Patient with known posterior compartment

Anonymous Reddit submission I wanted to share my experience with a nurse practitioner at the ER last week. She came in with no badge visible and I called her “doctor”. She didn’t correct me. I went in to the ER because of a

Originally posted on Reddit. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. A short background: I graduated as a biology major in 2015, worked as an outpatient surgical assistant through 2019, then went to get my BSN, RN. This BSN, RN program was accelerated, one year

Anonymous submission (emergency physician) EM here. So the hospital was trying to hire a new midlevel one day. They found a family medicine NP who had a few orientation shifts. The NP staffed a patient with me as "patient came in with a headache.

"Might be"? It's a fucking STEMI!

It doesn't take long for a second-year medical student to figure out what an FNP can't.

These nurse practitioners have absolutely no sense of shame, just like they have absolutely no regard for their own patients.

It's not like they could be actively bleeding out or anything!

This patient would have died if there wasn't an ER physician around to clean up this "ICU" NP's mess.