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NP students don’t know rudimentary medicine
"But holy shit, you’d think interpreting a CBC was worthy of a Nobel prize after working with these people. FPA is lethal to patients."
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Butthurt Physician Assistants can't handle the truth
On January 7, 2022, Medscape published an excellent op-ed piece entitled "PA Name Change Bad for Patients and the Profession" by Rebekah Bernard, MD, a Florida-based family medicine physician who co-authored the groundbreaking book Patients at Risk and serves as the president of Physicians for Patient Protection, a
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It's called "going to medical school"
Some skills are so basic and fundamental to the practice of medicine that it would be literally impossible for a medical student to graduate from medical school without possessing them. Needless to say, one of these skills is learning how to interpret basic labs such as a CBC and BMP/
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ER NP places a STAT Facebook consult for compartment syndrome
Clearly, asking the Facebook peanut gallery for help during a limb-threatening surgical emergency is the most appropriate course of action.
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Urine trouble: NPs demonstrate a piss-poor understanding of pee
Urine for a real golden treat with this post.
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New urgent care NP urgently needs some self-awareness
Who wants to take bets on how long this oblivious NP will last?
Physician Assistant
Neurosurgery PA bashes on physicians
Originally posted on Reddit. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. This morning I’m sitting on the Neurology floor minding my own business when I hear a Neurosurgery PA talking very loudly to a patient about how she does neurosurgery. She goes on to say that she does everything the
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[VIDEO] A visit to Dr. Karen, DNP: confusing credentials and a diagnosis of bronchitis
Nurse, doctor, or both? Anyway, it's just bronchitis. Nothing that a Z-Pak and steroids won't fix!
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Skits! Skits! Skits!
Midlevels aren't the only ones capable of making cringey internet videos!
Nurse Practitioner
Urgent care NP sends patient off to the ED to get a cardiac stent
We can feel our troponins rising after reading this tale of sheer midlevel stupidity.
Nurse Practitioner
When an NP gets mad at you for seeing a real doctor
Originally posted on Reddit by u/RandomFlamingoo. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. Earlier this year I switched my care in my primary care's office from an NP to an actual doctor in the practice, and ever since, whenever the NP or her assistant have seen me, they
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The NP approach to cancer: the chemotherapy cheat sheet
Why spend three years in a hematology-oncology fellowship when you can just become an NP and ask Facebook for a list of chemo meds?