Compartment syndrome: Physician training saves Veterinarian’s arm
When Karen Saintsing, DVM, a farming community veterinarian, developed sudden [...]
Vicarious liability: Family physicians discuss getting sued due to association with NPs
Nurse practitioner and physician assistant advocates often assure physicians that they face little liability or risk when performing supervision, insisting that NPs and PAs are liable for their own errors.
Who will provide primary care?
PPP member, Christopher Garofalo, M.D is interviewed in a story on Medical Economics asking: “Who will provide primary care?”
Lack of informed consent: Patient nearly dies after CRNA mishap
Imagine this scenario: You are rolled into an operating room in a surgical center for an outpatient elective procedure. But when you wake up; you’re in an emergency department, and you learn that you nearly died from anesthesia complications.
Telehealth Giant Drew People With Addiction. Deaths, Overdoses Followed
PPP board member, Dr. Alyson Maloy, is featured in a Bloomberg story discussing telehealth startup, Cerebral.
NPs, PAs or physicians: A question of quality
PPP member, Dr. Christopher Garofalo, provides in-depth expertise in a story on PhysiciansPractice.com discussing how quality of care can differ between NPs, PAs, and physicians.
The training debate
Dr. Christopher Garofalo is included in an article on Medical Economics that addresses the debate on whether or not NPs have received qualified training to practice independently.
Nurses in N.C. can now be held liable for patient harm
North Carolina Supreme Court overturns a 93-year-old precedent that prevented nurses from being held liable for medical harm.
Training matters: small town ER doc makes limb-saving diagnosis missed by urgent care NP
Physicians train for at least 15,000 hours before we are permitted to practice independently, and one of the reasons is that it takes a long time and a lot of patient volume to be exposed to the many different presentations of disease processes to learn how to recognize true emergencies that need immediate interventions.
North Carolina PPP Member says legislators have been misled about the effectiveness of APRNs
North Carolina PPP member and founder of Take Medicine Back, Dr. Mitchell Li, is quoted in a story on how state legislators have been misled about the effectiveness of advanced practice nurses.