I’m all for being a team player and support all the different healthcare roles in today’s healthcare environment, but I don’t like lies or manipulation such as being put forth by the above referenced article (1): “In study(2) after rigorous study (3), evidence demonstrates that NPs offer significant cost savings (4) with no sacrifice of quality of care (5). Indeed, they show that…
According to this Forbe’s article, medical practice revolves around two important concepts: reducing the likelihood of errors and achieving the highest probable benefit. I suspect this would be translated to mean improved practice of evidence-based medicine and profits. We know that healthcare has become more of a business and less of a healing environment. Almost a…
I see two sides to this metaphoric coin. I have mixed thoughts and feelings on the issue. On one side, for better accountability as the article professes. This is the good side of the coin: “…will allow service members who have been victims of negligent medical care to finally be allowed to hold the government…
Well how about that, “the U.S. government is barring federal dollars meant for opioid addiction treatment to be used on medical marijuana.” This seems to make sense. I mean why would you use marijuana to treat opioid addiction. However, some states allow marijuana for medical uses including opioid addiction. Federal agencies dole out money for addiction treatment to states…
It depends on what the definition of the word “is” is (2). This not a political post! The picture/quote is added as an attention getter. It really has nothing to do with the article. See, this article has been floating around social media for a short period of time lately. When I first glanced or…
Interesting article as Samoa is my medical school home country. It brings up many points about vaccines in general. There is such a pronounced anti-vaxxer push especially here in the USA, and what is happening in Samoa is a prime example of the consequences of not having a vaccinated population. Unnecessary deaths. How’s that anti-vaxxer…
So when my kids were very young, they learned from an early age the following question: What is it called when you cry when you don’t get your way? Answer – manipulation of course. Same goes when being told “no.” Somehow, a subset of the population never learns this and they become afflicted with what…
I knew very little about Auto-brewery syndrome (ABS) prior to taking on this subject for this blog. My initial thoughts prior to researching it for the article (“No one believed him when he said he hadn’t been drinking. Then researchers found his body was producing alcohol(1)”) was that I had missed out. By that I…
This is not a blog about bashing the hubris of Mr. Cody Yochum. He’s probably a great guy just taking advantage of opportunities that avail themselves to him. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. I can’t write about his experience in nursing. I can only write about mine as a former RN for 15…
As I sit here on a weekend day amidst multiple MCQ banks of USMLE Step 3 prep, I take a break and read with interest a new research article on a head to head comparison of physicians to nurse practitioners (NP)/physician assistants (PA) (1). I’m interested as I use to be an NP prior to…