News According to GW Hospital, residents are not physicians When physicians aren't allowed into the Physician Lounge.
News Washington State wants to reimburse midlevel NPs at the same rate as physicians?! Medicine is not a participation trophy.
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News Biased Medscape article attempts to paint false equivalency between physicians and nurse practitioners using cherry-picked studies Independent NPs: What’s the Evidence?As more states change scope-of-practice laws to allow nurse practitioners to practice independently, what does the evidence on health outcomes show?MedscapeChristina Bennett "...the quality of care is largely equivalent [between patients seen by NPs and physicians]!" the article exhorts. Let's take a closer
News Ask Arizona Legislators to support unmatched physicians with SB 1271! Ask AZ Legislators to SUPPORT SB 1271!Help speak out to increase access to primary care in Arizona. YES to SB 1271.Association of American Physicians and Surgeons With 1,831 new graduates of US MD and DO medical schools going unmatched (and thousands more from international medical schools) in
News AAEM/RSA Releases Statement of Concern about the imploding EM physician job market due to proliferation of midlevel NPs and PAs AAEM/RSA Statement of Concern for Graduating EM Residents and the Current Job Market | AAEM Resident and Student AssociationThe American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association (AAEM/RSA) is a non-profit professional association for emergency medicine residents and medical students.AAEM/RSA - AAEM Resident and Student Association
News Featured The casualties of cost-cutting: rookie CRNA midlevel in charge of colonoscopy case that went horribly wrong Beaumont Health and NorthStar (DeathStar?) Anesthesia clearly have their priorities straight.
News AAFP objects to VA's interim rule permitting midlevels to practice unsupervised AAFP Sees Harms to Team-based Care in VA Interim Final RuleThe AAFP and other medical societies this month urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to rescind an interim final rule that would decrease the standard of care for U.S. veterans. https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/workforce/