Nurse Practitioner
The NP papers: piling on the bullshit
Who would have known that medicine can't be learned by writing useless papers?
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Social Media Consults
The happy dance of ignorance
When lying in the ICU with a big, fat, pulmonary embolism (or any other life-threatening and potentially hemodynamically unstable medical condition), presumably you would want the individual with the highest level of medical knowledge and training caring for you, e.g. a board-certified physician with additional subspecialty fellowship training in
Social Media Consults
Asymptomatic UTI, Symptomatic Stupidity
Every time we come across a midlevel social media consult, we sacrifice several brain cells, and this post in the "Nurse Practitioner Newbies" Facebook group is no exception. "What is prescribed for 20 y.o. pregnant woman asymptomatic UTI?" The complete lack of proper English grammar
Nurse Practitioner
Noctor to Doctor: Nurse practitioner wants to go to medical school because she's "tired of needing a collaborative agreement"
"Completely out of touch with reality" is a phrase that could be accurately applied to many midlevels, but Indiana nurse practitioner Alexis Yoo takes it to a whole new level not only with her questionable motives for wanting to obtain an MD, but with her obtuse questions about
Nurse Practitioner
Florida Woman: Nurse practitioner moonlights as COVID conspiracy theorist
Florida Man, meet Florida NP.
Pharmacist laments midlevel mistakes
Who would have thought that physicians make fewer mistakes than midlevels?
Nurse Practitioner
You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
There's nothing elite about this nurse practitioner's procedural credentials.
Physician Assistant
PA makes video showing her "compassion" for underserved patients, gets fired
The amount of compassion this PA has for underserved patients is now equal to the value of her professional reputation: zero.
Stories
Genius FNP takes a novel approach to cancer diagnosis and management
Clearly, the first-line treatment for vulvar cancer is antibiotics.
News
Obnoxious family NP tells EMS that she has a "medical degree" in emergency medicine, interferes with scene
Narrator: She didn't have a medical degree.
The chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine is a midlevel simp
Gee, I wonder, could there possibly be a difference between a physician versus someone who's not a physician?
Social Media Consults
Brilliant NP shares her scientific hypothesis on COVID-19 bioweapon research
Gain of function? More like loss of brain function.