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I’d like to see your articles showing NP/PA “flat out wrong” half the time. Not my experience.
Articles?
I said this is my experience. I live it every day.
How on earth would you know whether a diagnosis and treatment plan was correct or not?
Again, it is probably OVER 50% incorrect diagnosis. Why doesn't the public see this? Because there are knuckleheads like me who identify the problem and correct the error before implementation.
NPs are not trained in differential diagnosis- they are trained in care plans. They do not think like we do as physicians. Currently, there are enough physicians to "cover" and correct mid level errors before implementation. However, as more and more mid levels become the source of primary care, the quality will decline.
Most NPs are incapable of reading an MRI. Why? They aren't trained in it. When I show my NPs imaging, they have no clue as to what they are looking at until it is explained to them.
They are building more med schools. However, they have not expanded the residency slots appreciably, so that there are now medical school grads that can't get a residency.
When you spend so much dough on illegals, you can't spend on the things US citizens need.
So congress should be regulating residencies (a.k.a. future doctors), schools and hospitals?
We let in 10 million unskilled farm workers lets just let in 10 million health care workers.
Everyone at my clinic, doctors, nurses, staff are all foreigners and they are wonderful.
The doctors at your clinic have passed the US medical licensing exams, and have gone through American residency programs. There are still a lot of countries where you can basically just buy a medical degree. Even countries like India, where they have many reputable medical schools, they also have many sham medical schools. So it’s not like you can just let anyone with an MD after their name, just come here and start a practice. They have to be up to our standards. And as long as residency programs are limited by Medicare spending, the shortage will still persist.
Ask me if I care, when I'm just 65 miles to Nogales, Mexico where they have some very fine doctors, who could be practicing here, but can't pass the stringent medical tests.
Been enjoying medical tourism now for over 10 years.
What’s “part time” for a physician, 40-50 hours a week?
If the big bloated fed government would lift caps on.the number of residency slots, there'd be many more doctors practicing, and they'd all be a lot less sleep deprived.
Would anyone here want a drunk doctor performing surgery on them? Being sleep deprived impairs cognition just as much, and doctors routinely work 36 hour shifts. No wonder medical error is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. Scary stuff.
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