[NPInfo] My Thoughts........

[David Mittman]

Meg: Agree except for one thing. IN OUR SOCIETY PHYSICIANS ARE LOOKED AT AS
THE DEFINATIVE EXPERT ON HEALTH RELATED MATTERS. The public does not know
that this is all politics and money. Some of the way things are said sound
like they make sense. That is where our leaders have to chime in, letting
people know this is not about quality of care. Even just pointing out that
these clinics all have physician involvement can turn around the AMA spin
and rest assured, this is scripted. What I have been doing is trying to
cleanly, clearly let people know we are treating more complex illnesses
routinely and we are high quality clinicians . Not trying to argue-just
saying there is more to this than what the AMA spin is.
Dave
On 9/3/07 2:05 PM, "mmhelgert46 at comcast.net" <mmhelgert46 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> I've been watching the listserv and feel compelled to jump in .....I feel...in
> order to get above this fray...we need to stop focusing on physicians,what
> they think, do and write and say......we have our own voices...we need to meet
> with legislators, reporters, write articles and get our voices out
> there...anyone can have an opinion including the AMA etc. and mostly that's
> all it is..opinion. We have data to support NPs and PAs, we have a track
> record...we have 30+ years in the business...plenty of time to focus on where
> we need to be going...and it isn't down this road of rehashing the AMA and
> Retail Health Clinic AMA opinions....we can set our own record straight here.
> 
> Meg FNP
> Portland Oregon
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