Midlevel.WTF

Noctor

"Dr." Carly Willeford, DNP, MS, FNP, BSN-BSW, RN

Who needs evidence-based medicine when you have the power of biblical principles and creation science?

Nurse Practitioner

Newbie NP wants to help start a neurology fellowship

We just about had a stroke after seeing this one.

Social Media Consults

When to start or stop the medications?

Is this the kind of person you would want taking care of an elderly family member?

Stories

Hemoglobin of 5.2, no big deal

It's not like they could be actively bleeding out or anything!

Social Media Consults

Tests, tests, and more tests

Shotgunning labs is not an acceptable substitute for clinical acumen and an understanding of pathophysiology.

Nurse Practitioner

Endocrinology is now at your service

Perfect for the hospitalist NP who doesn't know what they're doing!

News

Remembering the unmatched: A look at the 2021 NRMP Residency Match

On March 19, 2021, the NRMP released the results of the 2021 NRMP Residency Match, the process by which senior/fourth-year medical students learn where they will be going for their residency training following a months-long application and interview season. Love it or hate it, the Match is intended to

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PMHNP struggles with fundamentals

I might not be a psychiatrist, but I remember being extensively tested on bipolar disorder, depression, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, etc. not only during my medical school psychiatry rotation, but also on the USMLE. What does it say about the state of their education when a PMHNP needs "good tables or

Nurse Practitioner

Why hire an ICU physician when you can hire a midlevel instead?

Is the kind of ICU you would want yourself or your loved one to be a patient in?

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Death by a thousand cuts

Depression? Self-harm? Suicidal ideation? No big deal, let's just switch up the meds!

Social Media Consults

ST elevation, what could it mean?

Unfortunately, the patient died of a massive heart attack before someone on Facebook could respond.

Noctor

$200 for Sexual Bliss: "Doctor" Penny Lane / Eden Family Practice

It seems like with every new noctor we write about, the bar gets lower and lower. Today's feature, which comes from an anonymous tipster, is "Doctor" Penny Lane, of "Eden Family Practice" in Thorntown, Indiana. She offers "primary care to the entire family, from birth through end of life." Is

Noctor

"Dr." CeCe Brooks, DNP - "The Discovery Doc"

Whenever I'm feeling sad, I take out my medical school diploma and start caressing it.

Nurse Practitioner

I'm a human, not a dog

It's time to see the dogtor.

News

Betty's Law - Texas

No more children need to die needlessly at the hands of incompetent nurse practitioners.

Nurse Practitioner

The PMHNPs' dirty laundry

The PMHNPs' day of reckoning is coming.

Nurse Practitioner

Thyroid storm

So much fail, indeed. How do you jump from palpitations in what sounds like an otherwise healthy patient with normal vital signs to thyroid storm? Does this NP even know what thyroid storm is? Clearly, the answer is no. I'm no endocrinologist, but I paid enough attention in medical school

Noctor

Boosting the Botox business with review fraud: Amanda Barrett-Azzano, DNAP, CRNA

This noctor is "board-certified in anesthesiology"!

Nurse Practitioner

Have your cake and eat it too

So you want a challenge, eh? You want that "extra push"? Not sure how challenging it'll be to buy an NP degree from a 100% online, for-profit diploma mill program. May we suggest the challenge of four years of medical school, followed by a 5 (or more)-year general surgery

News

Anti-physician propaganda from Texas

Based on multiple reports circulating on social media, it seems that the nurse practitioner lobby in Texas is actively attempting to discredit physicians and the group Physicians for Patient Protection (PPP) as part of their effort their to push for full practice authority via House Bill 2029 and Senate Bill

Noctor

"Dr." Cheryl Winter, DCN, FNP-BC/APRN, RDN

Our next noctor by the name of Cheryl Winter certainly has no qualms about presenting herself as a doctor to potential patients. "Dr." is not only in her website's domain name, but also festooned across the website from the header to the footer. It's not until one digs into the

Nurse Practitioner

Who needs rural primary care when you can get a Botox injection instead?

One of the AANP's favorite talking points to expand the number of nurse practitioners and support their push for full practice authority is that, supposedly, an increase in the size of the NP workforce will lead to an increase in access to primary care in rural areas. However, multiple studies

Social Media Consults

Let me Google that for you

NP Lesia, it would have been much, much faster to enter your query into your search engine of choice rather than to post this in a Facebook group. Here, let us show you: https://lmgtfy.app/?q=johnson+and+johnson+vaccine+side+effects&iie=1 Makes you wonder - does

News

Finding NP student preceptors is becoming a big business

Once again, the free market provides.

News

Words matter: Victory for anesthesiologists in New Hampshire

ASA Applauds New Hampshire Supreme Court’s Decision to Ban Nurses’ Use of Physician Term, AnesthesiologistThe American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) today applauds the New Hampshire Supreme Court for upholding the New Hampshire Medical Board’s decision that health care professionals using the term “anesthesiologist” must be licensed physicians and