Starting National Physicians’ Week Off Right

This Thursday is Doctors’ Day. As you may know from reading this blog, over 50%. of hospitals don’t even recognize it even though it has a deep meaning. It was been expanded to National Physicians Week in 2016 when the advocacy group Physicians Working Together (PWT) sought to celebrate and acknowledge physicians everywhere. 

With that in mind, I would like to get the week off with a bang. Here is St. Joseph Healthcare proving how grateful they are to their doctors by celebrating a……….Nurse Practitioner. Forget the fact that NPs have ZERO training or certification in rheumatology. How about the fact they are NOT doctors?

Great job, St. Joseph Healthcare! That’s the way to devalue your real doctors.