Stories PA insisted on seeing my daughter despite my repeated requests for a physician As a patient, remember that you always have the right to ask to be seen by a physician. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Even on Thanksgiving.
Stories Epilepsy patient and former phlebotomist recounts her mismanagement by a neurology NP An unsupervised nurse practitioner's negligence results in disastrous consequences for an epilepsy patient, including loss of her job and a trip to the ER for status epilepticus.
Stories Urgent care NP missed the diagnosis on myself, a pharmacist A midlevel nurse practitioner's failure to recognize a classic textbook diagnosis results in unnecessary suffering for a patient.
Stories Featured Dumb and Dumber: PMHNP student edition NP programs should require their students to take an IQ test before admission so that they don't become the laughingstock of healthcare.
Stories Liar, liar, pants on fire: PMHNP student edition This story from an NP group on Facebook provides a valuable glimpse into the types of bottom-feeding scum being accepted into NP schools these days.
Stories By all means, try intubating a preemie 11 times Sadly, the proliferation of incompetent midlevels in neonatal ICUs, particularly neonatal nurse practitioners, is all too common these days.
Stories NP sends homicidal and suicidal patient home because she didn’t want to force family to take them to the hospital Actively psychotic, suicidal, and homicidal. What could possibly go wrong when an NP is involved?
Stories Midlevels: A Pathologist’s Perspective A pathologist shares some memorable interactions with midlevel providers - memorable in all the wrong ways.
Nurse Practitioner NPs get stuck in an infinite loop Do you hear that noise? It's the AANP clamoring to trick the general public into thinking that patients seen by midlevel nurse practitioners have higher satisfaction and fewer unnecessary emergency room visits. Well, guess what? I'd be pretty goddamn unsatisfied if I went to the emergency department, only saw a
Stories My first Noctor experience We've cured your child of cancer, now get the hell out of the hospital.
Stories ER NP checks labs, finds "no acute abnormality" It's not like hypokalemia can be dangerous or anything.
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."
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
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
Nurse Practitioner Nurse practitioner missed a fatal diagnosis Nurse practitioner? More like death practitioner.
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 Children's Medications are Dosed in Milliliters, not Milligrams Those advanced pharmacology classes in NP school must be outstanding.
Reddit A PA misdiagnosed my years-long battle with endometriosis as anxiety See a midlevel, lose your ovary.
Stories Genius FNP takes a novel approach to cancer diagnosis and management Clearly, the first-line treatment for vulvar cancer is antibiotics.
Stories Featured Nurse practitioner's stroke of genius: it's just vertigo! Why give TPA when you can give Antivert instead?
Stories Brilliant nurse practitioner writes the most useless consult note ever The "cardiology" FNP who wrote this note is an utter waste of hospital oxygen who needs to be fired.
Stories Misguided midlevel malice: genius CNM diagnoses diverticulitis on CT Certified nurse idiot tries to take on another midlevel, fails epically.
Stories Comedy of errors: a medical student's list of midlevel blunders 28 short stories of midlevels messing up, badly.
Stories Radiologist saves a patient from midlevel mismanagement Originally posted on Reddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/Noctor/comments/nrt73s/example_of_why_midlevels_are_dangerous_to_patient/] . Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. Radiologist here with a little anecdote of an interaction I had a while ago with a midlevel in the emergency department. I come into
