But people have to understand that the rapid explosion of nurse practitioners is a dilution of training and credentials designed to reduce the quality and critical thinking in medical care to the general pop.
Another analogy would be deciding to make flight attendants full service pilots because they got to sit in the cockpit a few times.
The future involves you and I receiving substandard, paint-by-number medical care from imposters while the elites who can afford it get concierge treatment from real doctors.
Nurse practitioners can handle almost any patient who walks into an urgent care or family doctors office. They aren't as qualified as doctors, but describing their knowledge base as paint by numbers medical care, or getting an online degree from University of Phoenix is just not based in reality.
But your larger point is likely correct. If the medical establishment is pushing for something, it's probably not a good thing for us plebs.
He's a nurse practitioner. He's not an academic that just sits in the ivory tower and laughs at the plebs. He's treated many patients before.
Being a nurse practitioner isn't a point in his favour.
Getting your NP certification is the medical equivalent of becoming a doctor through correspondence from the University of Phoenix.
That's not true at all lol
I personally have nothing against John Campbell.
But people have to understand that the rapid explosion of nurse practitioners is a dilution of training and credentials designed to reduce the quality and critical thinking in medical care to the general pop.
Another analogy would be deciding to make flight attendants full service pilots because they got to sit in the cockpit a few times.
The future involves you and I receiving substandard, paint-by-number medical care from imposters while the elites who can afford it get concierge treatment from real doctors.
Nurse practitioners can handle almost any patient who walks into an urgent care or family doctors office. They aren't as qualified as doctors, but describing their knowledge base as paint by numbers medical care, or getting an online degree from University of Phoenix is just not based in reality.
But your larger point is likely correct. If the medical establishment is pushing for something, it's probably not a good thing for us plebs.