Counterpoint: You can go read the “Noctor” subreddit or ask any practicing physician why it’s bad for patient outcome.
Ultimately we need more doctors and less hospital administrators.
Ultimately we need more doctors and less hospital administrators.
It's just people (presumably a lot of physicians / med students?) griping about how NPs and PAs are acting too good for their titles. All the actual stories are, like, one-off anecdotes about how some NP made some medical mistake. As if MDs don't make a massive amount of mistakes, I guess?
Edit: lol, reading more, and I have seen multiple posters and commenters directly reference how much less "intelligent" NPs and PAs are. This whooooole sub is just a massive superiority complex
Edit2: There's a moderator bot that automatically responds with a list of rebuttals, which includes this beauty:
> You're just sexist. Ad hominem noted.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Noctor/comments/yf3ajr/updated_fpa_...
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> Doctors make mistakes too. Yes, they do. Why should someone with less training be allowed to practice independently? Discussions on quality of mistake comparisons will be allowed.
There's just no way I would take medical advice (like which provider to choose from) from a site that's basically anonymous creative writing.
And let's be frank: just browsing this subreddit, it reeks of sexism and racism (it's no coincidence that the demographics for nurses are different than doctors). There's also not a single verifiable claim or study that would prove their point. And a lot of comments about IQ that sounds eerily similar to the current discourse of "race realists"...
I guess I tend to agree but you can't just conjure them up. You can set policies to encourage physicians to emigrate to the US and make it easier for students to pay for med school, but in the end only so many people are going to want to become doctors.
Just like software engineers are best qualified to evaluate software quality, doctors know medicine better than anyone else. Just because they are incentivized to protect their job doesn't mean they are wrong.
It was rather trivial for Boeing engineers to show, without a doubt, that the cheap offshored programmers didn't write software as good as they did. The design simply spoke for itself and didn't perform to spec.
Why not simply have doctors do the same? If their fellow medical workers can't deliver the same quality of care at the same speed and cost, then it should be trivial to show.
Doctors are at a greater disadvantage as there is not likely to be a sentinel event that kills 189 people at once. Nothing about the US medical system is trivial.
Consider the private equity run emergency department in the article, I am sure that they could make more profit off of NPs and that doctors wouldn't save private equity costs. The article suggests that NPs are saving private equity money while costing patients and taxpayers more. Speaking of quality, why should private equity care about quality if it doesn't effect their bottom line?