[NPInfo] Physician blogs maligning NP s and PAs

[margienp at aol.com]

Hope everyone is safe on this snowy day!
Karen, how true, you insights. 
Lets utilize our time wisely.
My concern is caring for the pts that need care. It can take 1-2 months to get an appt with a PCP , and 6 months with a specialist , where I live.
I work with a retail clinic and many of our pts have not have a medical home. 
The medical care in this state ( florida ) is substandard. 
Sorry to make a blanket statement, but many of the drs just work of money here.
I am unsure where Panda .. works I am very scared to have to go the hospital!
I hope that the rest of the country is not like this.
Margie
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-----Original Message-----
From: karenfnp at comcast.net
To: npinfo at nurse.net
Sent: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 1:32 am
Subject: [NPInfo] Physician blogs maligning NP s and PAs



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
 
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