Good Lord!! Is this how we have evolved as Humans in the year 2020? With all the technology, we’re just now learning how to wash our hands and some are buying fish tank additives to consume to prevent the COVID-19. According to the The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), individuals are ingesting non-pharmaceutical chloroquine phosphate,…
Ok, so Tom Brady isn’t staying with the New England Patriots. I’m disappointed as much as the next guy/gal, but there is bigger news out there these days. Not to make light of the COVID-19 situation, it is very serious, but this is a shout out to those of us that have been sidelined by this…
Who remembers the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl? They were discussing the fate of one of the other characters; how he died, and what was needed to lift the curse. It was a bit of comic relief and irony in the film. Similarly, this referenced article seems a bit ironic in…
And it’s the Georgia State legislature and those pesky self-serving lobbyists. This is not a blog bashing mid-level providers. I’m all for mid-level providers on physician lead healthcare teams. I know this is a heated topic and too much emotion often clouds honest debate. I’m sure the militant members of my former profession will have…
I borrowed this article I found floating around social media and adapted it to not just therapists, but all in the helping professions. Not talking about virus-induced funk, but that dreaded “blah,” “feel like $H%T,” or burn out feeling. Call it the funk or whatever you want, the article says: “We have the same problems…
If the USA is a village, then the village idiot lives in the Florida legislature. Never mind increasing scope of practice via increased education, more standardized education, and more stringent licensing exams, nope. Let’s just con a few village idiots, I mean legislators, and legislate the increased scope of practice. This bill is not a…
This topic is interesting as I use to be a Psychiatric NP before becoming an MD. The study objective is: To describe psychotropic medication prescribing practices of nurse practitioners (NP) and physicians for Medicaid-insured youths in 2012–2014 in a mid-Atlantic state where NP independent prescribing is authorized. The study references that psychiatrists play a major role in prescribing medications…
I don’t like lying about, misrepresenting, nor misinterpreting data. The referenced article reports: “A review of comparative research reveals that NPs provide exceptional quality of care that is equal to or better than that of physicians.” However what it doesn’t say is that when you look at the study, two parameters cite very low level…
Capgras delusion is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member (or pet) has been replaced by an identical impostor (2). The same could sarcastically be said about nurse practitioners replacing physicians. The referenced article is by one of my favorite authors, but this blog is not about this article per se,…
The article title wasn’t clear at first. I mean, it almost eludes to something that was going to be about bashing nurses. So I’ll further blur the lines with a picture with no meaning to the subject of the article. However, it does report on an interesting hospital/patient survey titled Patients as Consumers in the Market…