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Happy National Doctor's Day (3/30) to all the APPs!
My hospital has decided to honor the physicians by making posters that have pictures of DO/MD and also NP/PAsβ¦ we literally can't even get a day lol. Nurses get a whole week and good for them honestly. But why are we celebrating βour medical staffβ on doctor's day. It literally is called DOCTOR'S day. Pls
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Why do nurse practitioners even exist? As far as I can tell they are basically nurses that get to act as doctors without all the schooling doctors had to go through, but there isn't like a way to go from NP to MD so I don't understand why we have a cope doctor role?
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Back in the 80s there were too many doctors. Schools stopped credentialing so many, but overshot the mark. So nurse practitioners have filled the gap.
Here's a brief article on it. (trigger warning: boring economics). https://archive.is/5Py4M
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To deal with poors and because primary medicine doctors are lazy and inefficient. They use 0 clinical judgement before pan consulting specialists so it's easy to replace them with nurses.
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it's because the US has, thanks to the AMA, strictly limited the supply of attendings available, thus leading to many fewer doctors available. That isn't a sustainable situation, so NPs exist to fill that gap.
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Because it doesn't take much intelligence or require much knowledge to act as a generic GP. The software beeps if you're doing something wrong, and there's another layer of defence with the pharmacist (and his software) picking up any medication clash. You're just filling out generic scripts for medication that people have already been taking for years 90% of the time.
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I don't understand all the different tiers of foidery in the healthcare system..
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