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.
I appreciate you ceding at least some middle ground.
Of course my analogies contain some hyperbole in the aims of being derogatory.
My point is that the its a complete lie that they are selling us that you can create competent "doctor-lite" equivalents out of your average nurse simply by taking a few online courses or following a doctor around for a few months.
Your average nurse, will all due respect, is a moron. The barrier to entry to nursing training is very low. They are trained to follow orders and to conform to the weird feminized social structures created by the culture.
I would also refute the claim that your average NP "can handle" almost any GP or urgent care patient that walks through the door.
The fact that they ARE serving in these roles doesn't mean that they SHOULD be or do it competently.
Primary care in the US and Canada is poorly compensated and shat on constantly. But when you have underqualified and inexperienced people like NPs, putting in settings where undifferentiated patients with the entire breadth of medical possibilities may darken their doors is a bad idea.
There's actually a better argument to make NPs into physician extenders for specialists, where patients are already triaged, you get referred the same limited scope of conditions over and over and much of the care is akin to making widgets.
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.
I appreciate you ceding at least some middle ground.
Of course my analogies contain some hyperbole in the aims of being derogatory.
My point is that the its a complete lie that they are selling us that you can create competent "doctor-lite" equivalents out of your average nurse simply by taking a few online courses or following a doctor around for a few months.
Your average nurse, will all due respect, is a moron. The barrier to entry to nursing training is very low. They are trained to follow orders and to conform to the weird feminized social structures created by the culture.
I would also refute the claim that your average NP "can handle" almost any GP or urgent care patient that walks through the door.
The fact that they ARE serving in these roles doesn't mean that they SHOULD be or do it competently.
Primary care in the US and Canada is poorly compensated and shat on constantly. But when you have underqualified and inexperienced people like NPs, putting in settings where undifferentiated patients with the entire breadth of medical possibilities may darken their doors is a bad idea.
There's actually a better argument to make NPs into physician extenders for specialists, where patients are already triaged, you get referred the same limited scope of conditions over and over and much of the care is akin to making widgets.