Moderator EMEDPA Posted January 5, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 5, 2014 saw the 's. of interest TPA for stroke is a huge minefield. more people get sued for not using it than for using it and developing a bleed. the #s are about =. some folks have no change and an equal # improve(or was it a TIA?) vs have a big head bleed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator ventana Posted January 6, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 6, 2014 An Urgent Care center where they advertise you'll be seen "by a board certified emergency medicine doctor, NOT a nurse practitioner or a PA." Welcome to Stat HealthStat Health Urgent Care Centers are convenient Walk-in Medical Centers owned and operated by ALL BOARD CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIANS. You will never see a PA, Nurse Practioneer or resident in training. See "Our Physicians" to get to know our highly qualified staff. We offer routine Medical Care and URGENT CARE services for patients of all ages from infants to seniors. We have six convenient locations in Sayville, Smithtown, Port Jefferson Station, Cutchogue,Deer Park and Plainview to serve you. We will soon be open in Bayshore, Lake Ronkonkoma and Rocky Point. Additional sites throughout New York are also coming. Your pediatrician is great, and your family doctor genuinely cares about you, but sometimes their schedules are just too full, or their office isn't open when you need them. If you find yourself in need of Adult or Pediatric Urgent or Routine Medical Care, we will see you without an appointment or even a phone call wiithout the long waits and sometimes impersonal service found in ER's As Emergency Medicine Physicians we also offer a much larger scope of services typically not found in doctors offices such as X-Ray, Fracture Care, Stitches, IV fluids and Antibiotics, plus Rapid and Routine Lab tests. Even better, our walk in medical centers are open seven days a week for your health and convenience. then they go on to say they do routine care as well - steeps on the toes of the "board certified" FP or IM Doc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SO4683 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 CMDT 2013 pg 1627 "physician's assistant" and compares us to "nurse specialist" lmao. Same thing in the 2014 edition. Page 1573. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator ventana Posted January 20, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 20, 2014 Being told by Medicare that PA can no longer order any type of home oxygen, CPAP machine, and a list of other DME items without a physician signature, this is a step backwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marktheshark89 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Front page of the NY times...physician's assistant used multiple times. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/health/patients-costs-skyrocket-specialists-incomes-soar.html?hp&gwh=17503C4389355FC345075AB2284D78FE&gwt=pay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted January 20, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 20, 2014 will forward.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medic25 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Front page of the NY times...physician's assistant used multiple times. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/health/patients-costs-skyrocket-specialists-incomes-soar.html?hp&gwh=17503C4389355FC345075AB2284D78FE&gwt=pay Glad someone else saw this; they used both "physician's assistant" and "physicians' assistant", along with physician extender. Too bad; it was an excellent article otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aktlr Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 Looks like a strike by Anesthesia at nurse anesthetists in chronic pain mgt but throw's PA's under the bus on CS prescriptive authority. http://www.medpagetoday.com/PainManagement/PainManagement/44524?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-03-01&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=WC&eun=g-1d0r&userid=-1&email=aktlr2@mac.com&mu_id=-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PYRITE Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Here's a link to a "watchdog report" that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by the coauthor of the link in the story above. It seems to lay all the blame for painkiller abuse on midlevels. Here's a quote describing the PA role in medicine: "Over the last few decades, so-called "mid-levels" have been granted wider prescribing authority. The idea was that they could handle less complicated cases like colds and routine blood work, allowing doctors to spend more time with patients." Ouch! http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/millions-of-painkiller-prescriptions-written-by-non-doctors-b99210384z1-247700361.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paula Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 The Wisconsin Academy of PAs sent a letter to jsonline editors and set them straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PYRITE Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 The Wisconsin Academy of PAs sent a letter to jsonline editors and set them straight. Great to hear! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HM2PA Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Sorry if this is already circulating.... But Bill O'Reilly totally degraded both PAs and NPs yesterday on air. Here is the link to the clip: http://bit.ly/1fGNPSC Get 'em boys (and girls)!! Thanks to Pattrick Dunne over at PAsConnect.org here are some email addresses if you want to file a complaint: bill.oreilly@foxnews.com and CC amy.sohnen@foxnews.com, kate.ahlborn@foxnews.com and oreilly@foxnews.com You can also chime in on O'Reilly's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/billoreillyfnc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted March 7, 2014 Moderator Share Posted March 7, 2014 there are separate threads already here and on clinician1.com about this but thanks for mentioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taotaox1 Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 "Non-Physician" hit piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Apparently front page. http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/millions-of-painkiller-prescriptions-written-by-non-doctors-b99210384z1-247700361.html?ipad=y Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paula Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 "Non-Physician" hit piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Apparently front page. http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/millions-of-painkiller-prescriptions-written-by-non-doctors-b99210384z1-247700361.html?ipad=y This has been addressed by the Wisconsin Academy of PAs President who wrote a rebuttal and it was printed. The rebuttal can be found on AAPA morning news blast this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delco714 Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 http://networker.paeaonline.org/2014/05/14/paea-responds-to-major-pa-putdown/ Some beef regarding the VFW and advertising within it.. Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
physasst Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 http://networker.paeaonline.org/2014/05/14/paea-responds-to-major-pa-putdown/ Some beef regarding the VFW and advertising within it.. Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk THIS^^^^ Glad to see PAEA responded... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delco714 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Apparently they retracted the statement by apologizing to "Physicians Assistants" Steve PA-C, Maine, urologic surgery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdahoSU16PAS Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 I went through those too. Some were going so far as to say that PA's are 'flunkies' that couldn't hack pre-med, and 'glorified nurses.' One must have some kind of ego on them to call someone with Masters degree a 'flunkie' DAH! This makes me mad! I was told by a PA admissions committee member that it's easier to get into the medical school than the PA school (percent applied/percent accepted). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scparker2015 Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 "Nonetheless, Fontaine joined a third in 2010. This one was open for less than a month. Fontaine said she wasn’t hired to see patients, but rather to oversee the work of a physician assistant, who could prescribe under her name. But she said she never met the assistant and later discovered prescriptions were being attributed to her before she even learned the clinic’s address." Found this article co-produced by NPR linked from the NPR website... http://www.propublica.org/article/how-fraud-flourishes-in-medicares-drug-plan#butcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paula Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 It is interesting that Dr. Fontaine failed in her holistic anesthesiology practice and then worked at three, yes, 3 suspicious clinics that closed suddenly. Talk about no common sense and gullibility. She never met the assistant and never verified apparently that the "assistant" even existed. What legitimate dr. would take on such a practice and allow another to prescribe under their name? SCAM for sure and our profession is thrown under the bus. She is guilty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scparker2015 Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/08/18/341352255/medicare-patients-often-see-nurses-instead-of-doctors-for-skin-problems Medicare Patients Often See Nurses Instead Of Doctors For Skin ProblemsThe first sentence: "Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are taking on more and more responsibility for primary care these days." And if it isn't bad enough that we're lumped under a general category of "nurses," the entire article is about how incompetent and untrained we are, and how we probably shouldn't be performing derm procedures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsfelder0417 Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 The first few comments I read below that NPR article were very positive to PAs and NPs. It was refreshing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delco714 Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 He said those midlevel providers — PAs and NPs — "are doing invasive procedures and surgery. I'm not sure they were trained to do that." Hmm.. first, mid level, ackkkK Next, maybe nurses aren't taught how to cut and tie, but we sure as hell are!! Though I do get the more specific derm things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SocialMedicine Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28896625 The BBC expresses concern about these new doctor assistant and do not seem aware of the level of care we provide in the states. Lets show the that we are not only doing simple junior level work in the states and are prescribing medications and performing procedures autonomously as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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