Friday Funny? Nope. And This is Not an April Fool’s Joke
Here is the link. Remember how Nero fiddled while Rome burned? This will happen EVERYWHERE in EVERY specialty because nondoctors are cheaper. It doesn’t help that no organization (AMA, AAFP, ACP, APA, et. al.) will use their money to produce the studies showing that TRAINING AND EDUCATION MATTER!
The best line from the article, btw, was:
Adam Dachman, MD, a surgeon at the hospital, speaking for himself, said he has no problem using nurse anesthetists.
“It’s a misconception that physicians are required to administer anesthesia,” he told Medscape Medical News.
I am sure Adam has a lot of doctor friends loving him right now. Hey, Adam, you’re job is next. See what is happening in England the NHS.
Idiot.
I think the surgeon doesn’t realize if the CRNA screws up, the surgeon’s butt is on the hook in a subsequent legal proceeding. Surgeon might not have been responsible but if an anesthetic anomaly occurred, they’d be held in cahoots with a CRNA running the gas and I.V.
I wonder how many surgeons in Wisconsin realize they are on the hook if the CRNA has an “issue” with the anesthesia. That is of course null and void if Wisconsin has laws that protect the surgeon against malpractice if the CRNA screws up. In my state, the surgeon is the “captain of the ship” except when a board certified anesthesiologist is involved. If there is an anesthesia issue alone, the surgeon is protected to some degree.
I tried to understand where Dachman was coming from. All I could find is that he is one of two general surgeons at the facility. My guess: he is employed and/or involved in the hospital corporation.
U are probably right.
A travesty of course. “Barefoot Doctors” have immigrated from Mao’s Red China to the United States of America! Nonetheless as Abrahm Lincoln famously stated “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you can not fool all the people all the time.” I still attract new patients although I’m 68 years old whose reason for leaving their previous “Doctor” was “I never get to see my Doctor anymore! Not even for my Annual Check-up! She’s just a name on my health insurance card.” Even Primary Care Physicians have overutilized Physician Extenders. The patients complaining about this are not just well educated persons. Even blue collar working people know the difference between a real Doctor and an imitation. That’s why the “wannabes” are so intent on inventing “Doctor of Nursing Practice” or “Doctor of Advanced Physician Assistantism” or whaever phony title they can persuade authorities to grant. Patient can still see through their pretensions. Makes real Medical Doctors more desirable to patients.