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.
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.