Friday Funny: The NP Genetic Side Hustle
It’s really important to remember that NPs always say that are going to expand into rural areas where primary care is needed. The above course is from The Elite Nurse Practitioner website. It’s run by this guy:
The following is from Reddit where someone found an NP talking about the genetics course:
Isn’t the above a great rural medicine idea?
Do any of you doctors want to grift a young couple trying to have a baby? I didn’t think so. Well, then maybe you can take one of these courses:
Why do I find all this funny? I am not sure. Maybe because the NP ruse is finally being exposed. Maybe because this is what the AANP means when they say they practice “healthcare”.
Please share this so the world sees this garbage for what it is.
Lawsuits will kill this independent N.P. bullcrap. Malpractice insurance will be priced to insanely high levels for these
“ickheads”. I was in a group practice that eventually took in N.P.’s but each one was associated with a physician in the same office area. No hospital practice, no call for them. My assigned N.P. Debbie, was really smart. She was an oncology nurse for 8 years before she got her FNP/MSN degree. She insisted that patients not call her “doctor”. Our exam rooms were in the same area and we shared a common area with the nurses so were able to interact closely. They were suppose to be “assigned” the simpler cases but that didn’t always occur. 100% of the time Deb would grab me and present a patient like a smart senior resident would and most of the time, it would be a direct admission to the hospital. Sometimes I’d just make a mild medication adjustment on a patient she presented to me but she never failed to grab my ear for questions. When she came up to me with a “Doc I have a question.” I knew I had to put my thinking cap on. I still have a friendship with her and her very nice husband. She retired before me as I was younger. The biggest complaint in the group practice I was in was the N.P.’s got all the “easy cases” and the docs got all the “hard ones”. There was no way to keep the production up if one had to take time “thinking” about a complex situation. Glad I was able to retire 3 years ago. Kurt
My area, we had a couple Nurse Practitioners prescribing Methadone 100 mg QID for pain. As 10-mg pills, that’s 40 a day, 30 may month = 1,200 pills monthly. No pharmacy carries that quantity, so patients went to specialty pharmacy. And most of the chains had directives not to fill ANY prescription from these particular Nurse Practitioners. Similar quantities for OxyContin and similar as well. There’s no upper limit to opiates, remember that from the 1990’s? I kept a copy of the news article and a picture of a prescription bottle, because no one believes this story.
Complaints from Emergency Departments all over the State, as they often had to clean up the mess caused by these nurses. Nursing Board did not care. It was doctors complaining, after all.
But to your point, when the Nursing Board eventually got hold of the case.
“They cared about their patients”. I shit you not.
Say what you want about lawyers, but the Nursing Board did not shut them down, it was a tsunami of lawsuits that did the trick.
Nothing screams “compassionate competence” like a pic in an off-the-rack suit, holding a well-brand rum & coke, and promising “ZERO experience” required.
This guy is the health care equivalent of a time-shares salesman.
Just plain awesome.
The bioidentical hormone racket is a cash cow. I get ‘em in with a testosterone of 3000 and on an estrogen blocker, because body fat has aromatase and their estrogen spikes. Rubes with boobs being fleeced by the cunning. I say delabel all noncontrolled drugs and goin to the man-bra business.
In Iowa there now is an NP doing LIPOSUCTION. No surgical residency of course. No accredited facility of course.
And he is under the jurisdiction of the Board of Nursing, who feels this is just fine.