JohnnyLAX9 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/999776 Articles like this are just so frustrating. Why is there so much infighting within the medical field especially when we do not have enough medical providers to take care of the people that we have? I didn't realize that MDs/DOs had a monopoly on medical learning. It is just so disheartening to see things like this even coming from family medicine where arguably they need the most help to see patients. Mainly just venting after reading the article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted February 15 Administrator Share Posted February 15 He's kicking against the economic goads. Family medicine doesn't need 11 years post-high-school training (4 undergrad, 4 med school, 3 residency) unless there aren't any specialists to refer patients to. The era of a lone ranger family med MD is gone, and good riddance. Now, PAs and experienced NPs can serve as PCPs and free up the MDs and DOs for tasks that actually require their level of education--let them work at the top of their license, if you will. Sure, it will mean that MD/DOs no longer see URIs or UTIs, but that was a waste of their education anyways. We need a medical workforce where relationship is key in primary care, where clinicians are selected for patient communication and empathy, again so that the people who aced calculus-based physics can go off and do medicine that actually needs that background. 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sas5814 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Medscape is just a shill for organized med. I stopped using them as a reference because so much of their information and publishing is funded by drug companies and is suspect. I have heard sooooooo many speeches and read so many articles by angry physicians it is just white noise anymore. I listened to them yell "people are gonna die" in front of legislators and regulators for years. When 1) they couldn't prove it because there was no data to support it and 2) it never happened they moved on to "they don't know what they don't know." I referred to that as a sophistic trope that sells a lot of bumper stickers at the AMA convention but it belies the greatest truth in health care...you'd better know what you don't know. I really don't miss being in the middle of that unending fight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted February 15 Administrator Share Posted February 15 4 hours ago, sas5814 said: Medscape is just a shill for organized med. I stopped using them as a reference because so much of their information and publishing is funded by drug companies and is suspect. Yeah, no kidding. Q: How to tell if a medical publication is shilling for big pharma? A: Their lead stories are about long covid and Alzheimer's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted February 15 Moderator Share Posted February 15 Agree- Mittman pointed out recently how anti-PA/NP medscape is and asked that we call them to task over this. I think he is right. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LKPAC Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 When I read articles like this, I always assume the writer is over-compensating for their own inadequacies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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