What a ridiculous headline right? It’s not real. Thank goodness. But what is different than this: Facing doctor shortage, will California give nurse practitioners more authority to treat patients? NPs and PAs are not equal to MDs/DOs. The difference is a MASSIVE amount of education and training in the latter. As California faces a growing shortage…
Here is a sad situation as well as a weird event. Dr. Van Koinis, an Illinois pediatrician, committed suicide and left behind a suicide note saying he falsified medical records about vaccinating kids. Were the parents upset? No. He didn’t shoot them with saline. He just lied and that is what they wanted him to…
At first, we thought this had to be a parody. Surely Gomerblog was behind this. This couldn’t be real. But it is. Granted this article is from Canada but look at the absolute hypocrisy in these statements: One recommendation is to reduce the number of registered nurses (RNs) in favour of licensed practical nurses (LPNs)…
This is from a Facebook post. Our question is how is this not professional appropriation? We, as doctors, see these things and allow them to perpetuate. This NP is devaluing us and our education and our training. Why are we the bad guys for pointing it out. Your thoughts? Get our awesome newsletter by signing…
Yes, it seems the healthcare systems needs more administrators. Are you f$cking kidding? Here is the article in the WSJ: Starting in the fall of 2020, the university’s traditional two-year master’s of business administration degree will take a hard turn toward health, with a particularly heavy focus on quant skills, from exposure to coding to data…
This is a reprint from a review done and published at the Physicians for Patient Protection website. The picture above is a Wayne’s World reference to a famous commercial in the 1970s. You may or may not get it. No author here at Authentic Medicine is a member of PPP. The doctor there who wrote…
Not sure who created this but….. What I am sure of is that the AANP is going to be pissed about it but is this not what they are trying to do? Your thoughts? Tweet
Ok, so not really an inspirational quote but it is so important: “the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.”[1] In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It…
To all our readers who celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah: ENJOY! BE HAPPY! BE GRATEFUL! LIFE IS GOOD! Yeah, we do a look of blogs that seem harsh at times but we do it for a reason. We want to be a force for change. It doesn’t mean we aren’t human beings with good hearts. So…have…
The above image was recently seen on FB. It was from a magazine in Oregon. It says: (My doctor) is a Nurse Practitioner This is confusing for patients but that was the point, right? NPO, who sponsors and put out this ad, is the Nurse Practitioners of Oregon. This is deliberate. This has to stop.…