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Entertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Entertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
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Good thing for the patient…..hope the complaint went straight into the circular file
Physicians, NPs and PAs in my experience have all done this.Youth and arrogance or if not young in the business just arrogance.That NP needed more supervision, and education by the head of that department,and if after a year or 2 of close supervision if not better,then fire them.
If too arrogant to learn, fire them,do a formal board complaint. Same standard for a PA or a physician. If you Mr MD /DO want to run Medicine then step up,supervise Run Medicine in all its aspects.. Including killer physicians, nurses,NP or PAs… Lots of arrogant medical people at all levels.. Lots of PAs and NPs need 3 to 5 years of supervised practice before you turn them lose on the world. Then just like physicians they need to keep up. So continuing education..Much happening. Course we may all PAs and NPs be replaced by ADVANCED COMPUTER /AI in the near future. Wonder if that means the medical profession will stop the burial of our mistakes..?? Time may tell. Pray for knowledge,skills and ability. Pray for Humility and a spirit to serve others, help if possible but First Do No Harm..
The discussion would come AFTER you found the NP, put him up against a wall, off his feet and warned him if he ever does that again, you will find him and you will break the bones in his face.
Ha! As a former paramedic, this resonates.
MD, NP, PA – Doesn’t matter. The good ones understand: Listen to the paramedic.
You may have memorized the Krebs Cycle once, but the Paramedic sees sick people all day, every day.
And if this happened with one of my NPs, I’d have made sure to have had a polite and civil, but definite, discussion about how we treat people, how we pay attention to them, and how we evaluate our patients and envision our differential diagnoses.
— Also, whenever that NP was working in the fast-track, s/he would find herself receiving the foulest dregs of humanity, day in and day out, from every unit in the locality, until s/he finally broke and left, or apologized.