Friday Funny: Helping to Work in the Rural Areas, One Medical Aesthetics Facility at a Time!
We are so glad that NPs got full practice authority in many states. How else would the rural and poor people get their Botox and CoolScupting?
#NPtrojanhorse
They neither do primary Care nor do they go to rural and take care of poor people. They are setting up clinics left and right in every major city. Of course with a mere fraction of the training of a board certified plastic surgeon they can undercut prices. Meanwhile the emergency rooms on plastic surgeons to provide laceration care with no call pay, on demand and for HMO reimbursement. That does great to your practice when you run out on your patients and they feel well I can go to The NPS and never have to wait. Then they wonder why plastic surgeons say well we can’t take call anymore when we have to provide the call and everyone else can do our paying and reimbursed work. The second problem is every nurse now is going to end peace School leading to a nursing shortage. Full practice authority was only to keep from having an oversupply of nurse practitioners. This way they cannibalize the entire medical community of all its easy and lucrative portions but leave all the difficult and poorly reimbursed for the physicians.
The way I see the neurosurgeons handling this, is they go on staff at the smallest hospital in the area. Elective neurosurgery follows them to the small hospital, and administration is more than happy to accomodate. Surely the surgeon enjoys being a big fish in a small pond, I’m sure I’d feel the same way. Head trauma and other emergency neurosurgery goes to larger centers where neurosurgeon has either gone to some consulting or courtesy staff status, where call is not required.
I don’t blame the neurosurgeons one bit for doing that.
I see the bottom of the Medical Aesthetics advert, is the name of a plastic surgeon medical director. Maybe you need a gig like that.