L.K. Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Ok, so I am having my lovely cup of coffee and reading Medscape news and one article is about the effects of feeding infants food too early. There were lots of reader comments but this one made me furious and I can't believe there is still so much of this crap out there! I've never even heard the term "physician pretender." This response written by a DO about PA/NPs: "It doesn't affect sleeping habits regardless of anecdotal evidence and this epidemic of obesity is the evidence. Formula and infant cereal is the driver for infant obesity, and infant obesity drives childhood obesity, ad infinitum." This is EXACTLY why we shouldn't have physician pretenders. They are not trained in science. They don't understand science or medicine. They are merely trained what to prescribe for extremely simple stuff that a trained monkey could diagnose. Medicine and science don't work by the loudest opinion, contrary to what pretenders believe. The evidence of feeding schedules affecting sleeping habits goes FAR beyond anecdotal. It is well founded, well established science. It is no longer questionable. On the other hand, claims that formula and cereal cause obesity are TOTALLY anecdotal. We know from science that they are totally incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timon Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 There are idiots in every profession. It doesn't discriminate from the average joe on the street to the physician commenting on the interwebs... His whole comment was "anecdotal" since he backed up his claims with science... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Steve Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 World used to be flat, flight would never be achieved by man, space was out of reach. A person's belief doesn't make them right. Who knows..maybe this DO didn't have the grades for med school, tried PA school, got rejected due to a poor attitude, then finally persuaded a DO school to let them in. Luckily his opinion is expressed inside a medical journal that won't be read and believed by the general public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterallsummer Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 What's BS stand for? Bull shi.. MS? More shi... PhD? Piled heavy and deep. MD? Major Dump. What's DO stand for? Yeah, I dunno either. :D. Just kidding. Don't let one idiot DO sour the whole profession. Anyone who is this ignorant to PAs/NPs should just be ignored, to even acknowledge them is sometimes just fueling the fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.K. Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 I have been on this forum for years and have loved it as a pre-PA, student, and now as a practicing ED/UC PA of 4 years. The point I am making by posting this is that this is not just one stupid person's opinion, nor is it fanning any flame, I run across this attitude every week with patients, colleagues, specialists, and in the media. I choose not to post very often and reserve my comments for things that feel important to me. This does. Working hard as dedicated PAs as we all do, it is continually frustrating to give excellent care on par with our MD/DO colleagues and not have the perception that we are competent providers. One can always argue that this perception is just a few a-holes out there, but I am finding that it is more common than I would like and over time it can take a toll. Glad that we have PAs for Tomorrow starting to represent us and this perception issue, but on occasion this issue still irritates me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joelseff Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 That Doc needs a serious bug-up-the-@$$-ectomy.... Sent from my myTouch_4G_Slide using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted April 6, 2013 Administrator Share Posted April 6, 2013 You know, maybe it has to do with MEDEX's profession-leading HCE requirements, but NO ONE in six months has asked to see "a doctor" instead of me. Zero times, not even from the insane or addicted patients when I tell them I will not be giving them what they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterallsummer Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Realistically, what can we do that we are not doing already about these people, though? I didn't mean my comment in a rude way, I understand the need to address such ignorance. Sometimes the best thing to do is simply rise above. I'm just a meager PA-S who attends a school with a med program and sadly see this attitude sometimes, too. IMHO, the best thing I can do our profession is to show the maturity and intellect these people so obviously lack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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