[NPInfo] WSJ Health Blog: "Dr. Nurse"

[David Mittman]

When you are a physician you feel that you are captain of the ship  
(and in many ways you are).
Others come along that SAY that they can do what you do........
They say that you do not need to go to medical school to be a good  
clinician...............
And now some of these people want to be referred to as "Doctor".
I fully understand how physicians would at a minimum feel that  
patients will be confused (and they will be) and at a maximum, how  
there will soon be no difference between others who did not do it  
"the right way" as they did which to them is the ONLY way one can do it.
I can nfullkyfullky see how threatening this is to docs generally.
That being said if you have a doctorate in a clinical area, you  
earned it and should use it.
Dave

On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:09 AM, SGrtWhite at aol.com wrote:

> _http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/02/say-hello-to-dr-nurse/? 
> mod=WSJBlog_
> (http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/02/say-hello-to-dr-nurse/? 
> mod=WSJBlog)
>
> An article in today's WSJ Health Blog about doctorate degrees and  
> nurse
> practitioners. Gotta love the physician comment:
>
> "Also, since these nurses with a doctorate can use “Dr.” some  
> physicians
> worry that patients could become confused. “Nurses with an advanced  
> degree are
> not the same as doctors who have been to medical school,” says  
> Roger Moore,
> incoming president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists."
>
> See? Our goal is to try and "confuse" patients into thinking that   
> we are
> physicians. Please!
>
> Stephen
>
>
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