I kept getting the warning emails like these from the American Academy of Family Practice: Don’t let your membership be canceled. Pay your dues. For only $685 a year (a price that has climbed since I started), I could be in their good graces. My best friend and former medical partner always thought of it…
This probably should have been the first tip in this series but there really is no cohesive order to this. I am sure, once again, that I will be attacked by the militant LELTs (overwhelming minority) for saying this but it doesn’t matter. They can be an authentic PAs or an authentic NPs. There is…
The AAFP Assembly is almost upon us again. It will be in Washington, DC in October. I have been to a couple of them. One was to launch the Placebo Journal in 2001 (where I was vendor and forcefully thrown out) and the other was few years back when I and a few others dressed…
I am kidding. Only two doctors in the whole state are doing it. Why? I think I know. I was in Maine for 18 years. There was a lot to like there (and a lot not to like). It’s a place where medical monopolies run amuck and hospital administrators get paid ridiculous salaries. I…
The exodus is almost complete. More and more doctors are jumping on the bandwagon of hospital employment. Here is some info from a recent New York Times article: Last year, 64 percent of job offers filled through Merritt Hawkins, one of the nation’s leading physician placement firms, involved hospital employment, compared with only 11 percent…
It would absolutely wrong to laugh at this story. There is nothing at all funny about flatulence, especially when associated with public singing and an obvious attempt to smear a hard-working, highly trained mid-level working in a military facility. The suit alleges that the Certified Nurse Midwife performed an episiotomy without consent or risk/benefit explanation,…
According to a recent WSJ article: A shortage of qualified pilots has hit U.S. airlines sooner and more severely than expected, leading the airlines to accelerate hiring and cut some service. The shortage flows from both a long-anticipated wave of pilot retirements and recently enacted rules that require an increase in training for new pilots and…
Here is an article from the Washington Post expelling the push behind the idea of decreasing the duration of medical school by a year. In other words, we are trying to make medical students “less educated” in a time when we know that information is exponentially increasing. Think about it. When I was in medical…
This was what was written in a side section of the Oct Family Practice News: Medical schools with the subject of three strong resolutions from New Hampshire delegates tired of hearing about professors who shoot down primary care as a career option. Delegates didn’t like that either and voted for the AAFP to poll new…
I turns out that I am NOT the only one complaining about the role of NPs. Just to reiterate, I do believe there is a collaborative role for them just NOT a competitive one. They are less educated and less trained (LELT) and they cannot replace doctors. In the May 16 issue of the New England…