User-submitted stories about midlevel incompetence that personally affected themselves or their loved ones.
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Originally posted on Reddit. 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 work for my shift and open up my first case. Late-20s female presents to the ED
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Originally posted on Reddit Long before I ever was aware of the problems with mid-level education and practice, I had my own run-in with a poorly trained NP. This was back about 20 years ago before there were any online diploma mills and direct-entry NP programs. When I was 18
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Anonymous emergency physician submission I’ve made it a priority to see every NP/PA patient, even at the expense of picking up new patients of my own. In the past month I’ve caught the following errors: 1. Patient with known posterior compartment injury of the thigh, recently discharged
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Re-shared from Reddit This may be long, so I apologize. I just felt like I needed to tell this story and felt this page was the most appropriate. For about the past year and a half now, I have been having an issue of my hands getting very red, swollen,
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A story of a post-op wound check gone wrong, thanks to a PA's mismanagement.
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Anonymous patient submission I went to an urgent care clinic to get something cardiovascular checked out. I also had a big lump on my shin so I already had an appointment with an orthopod the next day for that issue. I was seen by a young PA. After the cardiovascular
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Anonymous Reddit submission I wanted to share my experience with a nurse practitioner at the ER last week. She came in with no badge visible and I called her “doctor”. She didn’t correct me. I went in to the ER because of a very rapid heartbeat that woke me
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Tell the bacteria to grow faster, or NP Karen will not be pleased!
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Originally posted on Reddit. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. A short background: I graduated as a biology major in 2015, worked as an outpatient surgical assistant through 2019, then went to get my BSN, RN. This BSN, RN program was accelerated, one year long, and designed for students with
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Anonymous submission (emergency physician) EM here. So the hospital was trying to hire a new midlevel one day. They found a family medicine NP who had a few orientation shifts. The NP staffed a patient with me as "patient came in with a headache. It's moderate. Also
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"Might be"? It's a fucking STEMI!
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Originally posted on Reddit I’ve been an NP for almost 5 years and was a nurse for 5 years before that. Nearly all of my experience has been in the outpatient setting, community health centers and urgent care clinics. I completed an FNP program at a very competitive school