Friday Funny: IV-Infusion Clinic
Nothing screams “helping out the rural communities” like an IV-Infusion clinic. Those areas of the country are in desperate need of expensive anti-aging medicine. And now NPs can learn it all online. It’s easy. The Trojan Horse of NP independence strikes again.
Did you see this article? The New Republic.
When Your Doctor Isn’t a Doctor
Thousands of urgent care clinics have popped up over the last decade. How safe are they?
https://newrepublic.com/article/165235/when-urgent-care-doctor-is-not-doctor
What you don’t get is that the people doing this were doing it before, except they were hired by physicians in Florida and many beach communities to set these clinics up. I know when I’ve been on vacation I’ve seen them. I thought they were hooey then, and kids were going to them for curing of their hangovers so they can drink more and party more later that night. That being said why shouldn’t NP be able to set up an IV and do the same thing she was being paid to do anyway on her own? Come on it’s capitalism at its best.
The point was the Trojan Horse comment. Re-read it. The same thing the PAs are trying to do.
While I completely agree with your current position on the dumbing down of our medical system by allowing stand alone operations of PA, NP, and NFP providers, it seems that we are only years or maybe even months away from being able to become an MD by taking online courses and using virtual clinical training. For decades, one has been able to become an RN by taking home study courses which only require a week of clinical rotations at the school’s main campus. Obviously, everyone in the medical universe can get CEUs online. Now retired after 20 yeas as a Nationally Registered Paramedic,, I’ve watched EMS courses dumb down and shorten the education for EMTs and EMTPs while at the same time teaching higher levels of invasive procedures for lower levels of EMS providers to use in the field. Many of us are waving the RED flag over our concerns, but no one seems to care anymore. I’m waiting for an online first aid course that advocates putting butter on burns and bleach on skin cancer because “old wives tales” are just as good as seeing a real MD. Am I right ?