Friday Funny: Radiology Specialist
This is so outrageous that it is actually funny.
We all know the joke or travesty about midlevels somehow being allowed to switch specialties on a dime. This one may take the cake. Megan, the radiology specialist, received her FNP at Walden University which is an online program. FNP = family nurse practitioner. And yet, somehow, Sanford Health in North Dakota is allowing her to claim the above.
How is this legal?
How is this ethical?
How is she, and Sanford Health, getting away with this?
Why are we NOT protecting patients?
Where is the national organization for radiologists on this?
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Say what?
It’s not her, it’s the social media company that displays erroneous information about her. I have seen all sorts of erroneous info on myself…that I speak Spanish, that I am fluent in American Sign Language, my age and years of experience.
For years we left our positions to the AMA. It’s our own damn fault.
What we need to be advocating is to the trial attorneys that they need to hold these nurse practitioners to the same standard as physicians since they are essentially claiming to be equal. It is time for them to be sued for the big bucks including any hospital that gave them privileges for such activity. A few 10 million verdicts in this irresponsibility may be defeated
Get with the program! The big money is to be made from shifting liability to the suckers , sorry, patients. Read your own Mammo on WebNP!
Hey! Loonies in the Boonies – what’s not to like??? This is another and inevitable manifestation of the seemingly inexorable downgrading of medicine as a learned profession, resulting in a lack of fully qualified MDs to fulfill the needs of “peripheral markets.” Gresham’s Law in action. Stay tuned for further turns of the downward spiral: “…never send to know for whom the bell tolls …”
My wife is a Rad with 4 years of med school, 4 years of residency and a year of fellowship. She would tell you it’s difficult to be adept at all the different imaging modalities even for well-trained, experienced radiologists. This is a jooke.
Usually your Friday Funny is …well….Funny.
This situation is FAR from funny. It’s pathetic !! What’s next ? CNAs in mobile vans offering MRIs at discount rates ? Free hot chocolate and candy canes offered at the holidays ? I know. Next Walmart will offer one stop medical care performed by Santa’s helpers who are paid $10/hr and graduated from Cosmetology school. I know I was only a Paramedic, but this is disgusting and scary. Does Ms Flath also stock a line of custom vitamins and hair care products for sale in her waiting room ? Personally, at 65 years of age, with a few medical issues, I’m finding it impossible to get a timely appointment with an MD, but I can go to a Doc in the Box and see a Pa or NFP who hasn’t a clue and probably got their “diploma” online and will misdiagnose me any day of the week. My daughter had to see a Pa last week after being bitten in the hand by an unvaccinated pit bull. The Pa never mentioned that she needed to go to the ED and start prophylaxis for rabies which is um….fatal if not tx’d. I had to take her myself. VIVA mid level health care.
A couple of good lawsuits over missed lung nodules ought to do the trick…
This is getting out of hand!!!!
Physicians need to take back the practice of medicine from these charlatans!!!!
So all that fancy residency stuff isn’t needed to be a radiologist? And to think I blew three years of residency just to be a FP, when I could’ve bypassed all that and become a Nurse Specialist.
What a load…