Midlevel.WTF

TikTok

Will the real doctor please stand up?

When patients ask for a doctor, they sure as hell aren't referring to a PMHNP.

Social Media Consults

Elite NP performs an elite diagnostic workup

Can anyone help this elite midlevel with her patient's clinical conundrum?

Nurse Practitioner

Understanding roles on the health care team

Courtesy of the Indiana Physician Coalition.

Stories

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."

News

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 grassroots organization

Social Media Consults

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/

Social Media Consults

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.

Social Media Consults

Urine trouble: NPs demonstrate a piss-poor understanding of pee

Urine for a real golden treat with this post.

Social Media Consults

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 [https://www.reddit.com/r/Residency/comments/rk25gb/rant_about_pas/]. 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

Skits

[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!

News

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 [https://www.reddit.com/r/Noctor/comments/rcrofk/when_an_np_gets_mad_at_you_for_seeing_a_doctor/] . 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

Social Media Consults

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?

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse practitioner missed a fatal diagnosis

Nurse practitioner? More like death practitioner.

"I know what they use lidocaine for"

Originally posted on Reddit by u/alliebeth88 [https://www.reddit.com/r/Noctor/comments/r96qvp/np_doesnt_have_her_head_in_the_sand/hnafm7q/] . Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. Community pharmacist here. My partner at work told me that this happened on my day off and I'm still stunned.

Social Media Consults

The Elite NP's unethical misadventures in self-prescribing

Don't you just hate it when you accidentally overdose yourself?

Nurse Practitioner

NP forgets the names of ALL the antibiotics

Can you imagine a PGY-1 intern, even on day #1 of residency, not being able to remember the names of any antibiotics? It's a scenario about as probable as the chances of Walden University becoming a respectable educational institution. On the contrary, the average medical student could rattle off the

Nurse Practitioner

I'm a doctor, the badge says so!

Why waste years of your life in medical school when you can just get a badge that says "Doctor"?

Nurse Practitioner

Children's Medications are Dosed in Milliliters, not Milligrams

Those advanced pharmacology classes in NP school must be outstanding.

The Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine PA Program: Separate but Equal?

On November 22, 2021, MSUCOM Dean Andy Amalfitano, DO, PhD and PA John G. McGinnity put out a co-signed news release announcing the new SpartanPA Medicine Program, Michigan State University's new Physician Assistant school under the auspices of the existing (and very well-respected, at least until a certain gymnastics team

Reddit

A PA misdiagnosed my years-long battle with endometriosis as anxiety

See a midlevel, lose your ovary.

TikTok

PA makes video explaining why midlevels should continue to be called midlevels

Thou shalt continue to refer to physician assistants as midlevels.

Nurse Practitioner

Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners Fails to Increase Rural Healthcare

Courtesy of u/debunksdc and u/pshaffer on Reddit