[NPInfo] Physician blogs maligning NP s and PAs

[karenfnp at comcast.net]

Stephen and David,

Thanks for your comments and the sample blog.  As a champion, especially for NPs, I like to hear what others say about us in order to facilitate bridgebuilding.  One aspect of health care provider training I like to stress with docs and advanced practice clinician students  is that so much of what we learn in the medical aspect of what we do is apprentice based.  We all have to learn the same new info when new diagnoses, treatments and meds emerge on the health care scene via CME and OJT to maintain quality evidence based practices.    ( To have more residency programs for PAs and NPs in speciality areas would give us more credibility  in specific content areas.)  I like to maintain a posture of humility in terms of all that we need to know these days and respect docs who do the same.  It looks like this "panda bear physician", per the content in this blog blurb, chooses to spend  energy putting  NPs PAs down and reminds me how we have to choose where to spend our energy in buildin
g our allies in the physician community and not waste it  a la "casting pearls to swine" as Jesus said once.

Karen Riesinger FNP
Portland, OR