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Increasing Access to Care with a Physician Led Team
It is not clear how laws expanding full practice authority lead to increased NPs in rural areas. Access to care is not a metric. It is an ideal
Why stopping scope creep is about protecting patients
PPP's Dr. Rebekah Bernard was featured on an episode of the AMA's COVID-19 Update during which she discussed the importance of physician-led care.
Will California’s Governor Veto a Bill that Allows Non-physicians to Perform Eye Surgery?
On Sept. 1, California lawmakers passed a bill—by one vote—that would allow optometrists, who are not physicians, to perform surgeries. Gov. Newsom now considers whether to approve or veto.
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Physician-led, Transparent, Team-Based Care
Our mission is to ensure physician-led care for all patients and to advocate for truth and transparency regarding healthcare practitioners.
For Patients
Medicine and Nursing are different. Education in one does not translate into expertise in the other. The explosion of online NP schools with near-100% acceptance rates should be contrasted against the rigorous, standardized education of a physician.
With the alphabet-soup of initials on many nametags, it’s hard to know who is treating you, and what those initials really mean regarding education type and level. We’re here to help clear the confusion.
Tests and referrals cost you more money, but make the hospitals a whole lot of money. Non-physician practitioners order more labs, imaging, and make more referrals than physicians. Seeing an actual physician could save you healthcare dollars.
Non-physician practitioners (NPPs: NPs and PAs) do not go to rural areas in any greater numbers than physicians do, yet NPPs use rural access as an argument for them to work independently of any physician. Rural citizens deserve the same level of healthcare as everyone else.
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If you’re concerned about your healthcare, confused about the credentials of your healthcare practitioner, or want to tell us about medical mismanagement you’ve experienced with an NPP, complete this form or email us at npmismanagement@gmail.com.
For Physicians
Physician Voices for Patients and for Our Profession
Physicians for Patient Protection is a grassroots organization of practicing and retired physicians, residents, medical students, and assistant physicians (a new designation for physicians who have finished medical school but haven’t yet matched in a residency).
Our mission is to ensure physician-led care for all patients and to advocate for truth and transparency regarding healthcare practitioners.
We advance our mission by educating our colleagues, by influencing policy and legislation, and by educating our patients and the public.
Connect with colleagues working together for the health and safety of our patients. You’ll find support, and you’ll be supporting our multi-pronged efforts to ensure physician-led care for everyone.
Only official supporters can access substantial portions of our website, where you’ll learn more about our efforts and how you can help, as well as find many helpful resources you can use right away.
Our Conferences provide quality education, networking, and CME credits. Enjoy official supporter-only reduced registration rates.
Become part of our strong advocacy program centered on assuring that public health voices are being heard. Our Advocacy Committee prepares legislative updates/alerts, and tracks relevant policy under consideration by the Federal and State Legislatures.
Stay current through our web site and email updates regarding emerging issues relevant to public health. Remain informed in a way that saves you time.
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“PPP is important because the public deserves truth and transparency in health care, and because I will be a patient too, one day.”
“Not every person who wears a white coat or calls themselves “doctor” has gone through the same rigorous training, schooling, or exams as a physician. Patients deserve to know the truth and have access to safe medical care.”
“Physicians for Patient Protection is about patients being first. Always.”