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Is there a profession with educational and training standards as poor as #nurse practitioners? Why does the #AANP continue to protect online diploma mills that will harm innocent patients?
#MedTwitter #StopScopeCreep
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Patients First
@HalstedMD
Putting patients first. Fighting for physician led care. You have a right to demand an MD/DO
United States
Joined September 2020
- Hospital administration forces surgery residents to cover scrub tech call, denies their request for compensation #MedTwitter
- NP is angry IM physician told her its inappropriate to introduce herself as "doctor" in the ICU, claims no one respects IM physicians and they’re the lowest on the totem pole #MedTwitter #StopScopeCreep #NPsLead?
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- 'Physician associate', 'nurse anesthesiologist', 'doctor nurse practitioner', 'doctor of medical sciences' These terms are meant to deceive and obfuscate roles in an effort to elevate less rigorous training to the level of a stringently trained physician. Shameful. #MedTwitter
- Residents and fellows are physicians. They are doctors. Stop treating them as if they aren't. #MedTwitter #StopScopeCreep
- NPs and PAs are NOT hospitalists any more than they're surgeons or endocrinologists. Hospitalists are physicians. #MedTwitter #StopScopeCreep
- "some may consider PA school to be even more challenging than medical school" #MedTwitter #StopScopeCreep
- “Ortho NP looked at X-ray remotely and suggested outpatient appointment on Monday” #orthotwitter #MedTwitter #StopScopeCreep #NPsLead?
- Physician assistant passes herself off as a surgeon, tells patient's family, "I did the surgery." #MedTwitter #StopScopeCreep
- "Dermatology PA" completes her "fellowship" completely online, will be doing Mohs surgery #MedTwitter #StopScopeCreep #dermatology
