PIP PIP CHEERIO TO UK PAs
Scope creep has slithered its way across the pond. This is what scope creep bulls**t looks like in the UK health care system where PAs, despite being around twenty years, have no standardized education, no PA schools that are accredited by a unique PA body, are not licensed or regulated and yet are permitted to practice on patients as if they are physicians. The screenshot above demonstrates lip service from one individual explaining that PAs go to medical school to practice medicine, embellishing their education so as to appear important-but brings no receipts for further clarification. Contrary to popular belief, PA school is not medical school on steroids. Allow me to interpret this BS. If one is REQUIRED to apply to a medical school, there is no “if it is available”. “If” implies the individual either does not know what the f**k they are talking about or they are straight up lying through their f**king teeth. In the scope creep issue, it is both, even in Britain. “Regardless” is equivalent to “Anyway”…with an attitude and no evidence. Allow me to demonstrate an example of receipts. Can’t use PA programs in the UK because they are raggedy and inconsistent. Below is an overall example of their education compared to General Practitioners(GPs) or Generalists. The more accurate example has been crossed off and “corrected” by the Twitter page moderator of the United Medical Associate Professionals(UMAP), the UK equivalent of the American Academy of Physician Assistants(AAPA).
Just for laughs…The PA requirements at one school, the University of Reading is shown below in a Twitter screenshot. Mind you, there are quite a few UK physicians on Twitter who repeatedly spout that PAs are “highly trained and qualified”. Same virtue-signaling s**t we see in the U.S. None of the examples of PA education that I have shown embody exceptional education or training.
https://www.reading.ac.uk/progspecs/pdf20/UFMPAS20.pdf
Now onto a more sophisticated comparison…There are 306 PA programs in the U.S. All are accredited(unless they are on probation). Below are the didactic/clinical curriculums of Duke University’s 2 yr PA program. Duke has one of the best PA programs in the U.S., in addition to its medical school and Family Medicine residency.
Below, the curriculums of Duke medical school and Family Medicine residency(the closest to GPs in the UK). In scope creep, NPP charlatans like to skip over medical school to minimize its importance. But we cannot become docs without it. It’s our foundation. Residency enables us to apply that knowledge. Takes 10 years minimum to become a GP in Britain.
Both U.S. PA and MD/DO schools exemplify what a structured education looks like. Just different disciplines. PA school is PA school – not medical school. If it were, the curriculums for the programs would be exactly the same. What sense would that make? To have two med schools within a med school? If it doesn’t make sense it’s because someone is pissing on your leg and telling you it’s raining. In the scope creep fiasco, ethics are not a distraction since they are non-existent. People just make s**t up. Proponents of scope creep refer to physicians as egotistical for pointing out the lies and educating the public on the differences in education. Yet, they embellish their own credentials when they tell anyone who will listen that they attend medical school and can do what doctors do. If they find us so arrogant, why the f**k do they want to emulate us? They get assistance in their deception from traitor trash docs who left their morals in the toilet after they took a s**t, as they didn’t have much to begin with. The lying that is so rampant amongst the scope creep crowd is repugnant, because it is normalized. Advocates of scope creep, if you are going to talk s**t, bring the receipts to back up your claims or STFU. Not interested in deflections such as name calling. Ad hominems–the last resort of the intellectually bereft. Yeah.
“There is something worse than obvious immorality and that is false morality.”― C.A.A. Savastano
Like I’ve said time and time again, once they get hit with a pile of medical malpractice suits, it will be impossible for these “imposters” to practice independently, PERIOD! Unfortunately, patients will get hurt by this.
My God, Natalie, I love it when you go on a rant. Truth.
Why, when I read your remarks, am I reminded of Alanis Morrissette?
Remember, the model to attend to isn’t the medical or nursing model, but the catastrophic bureaucraticization of the medical infrastructure and the financial profitability model of healthcare. Britain suffers from the first; but also the second as well. Although a government based system, the pound drives decision making as well. The cash that swirls around the healthcare industry is massive, and nobody wants to die, or pay. Elizabeth Warren made her name studying medical bankruptcy; thirty years later, the problem has made little progress. Provoking practice wars at the front line is puppeteering-the bigger the squabble, the more cash can be maneuvered out of the system. We have done little to change course.