Emergency physician Andrew Wilson, MD, discusses a case in which a routine work physical at an Urgent Care resulted in an unnecessary ER visit for a patient.

Last week was Match week, and while thousands will celebrate matching into residency, 2,500 medical school grads will face an uncertain future due to a shortage of residency positions.

Nurse practitioner and physician assistant use are often justified because of a shortage of physicians, especially in underserved areas.

The COVID19 pandemic created both challenges and opportunities in the healthcare sector. One major winner: telehealth startup companies offering ‘virtual’ medical care, including psychiatric care.

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.

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.

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. 

Today we are going to explore the phenomenon of NPs and PAs performing colonoscopies

Increasingly, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are being asked to step into the role of physicians.

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In Jan 2022, the Journal of Nursing Regulation published an article entitled: Analysis of Nurse Practitioners’ Educational Preparation, Credentialing, and Scope of [...]

Attorney and emergency medicine physician William P. Sullivan believes that nonphysician practitioners should practice independently, but be held to the same medical [...]

In several previous podcasts, you have heard us refer to research studies that claim to show that nurse practitioner care is just [...]

Douglas Farrago MD discusses why '9 out of 10 administrators' absolutely hate his new book, The Hospital Guide to Physician Retention: Why Creating [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 5/9/2022 Sonal Patel MD and Jou Jou Hanna MD discuss the difficult choices that [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 4/25/2022 One topic that gets women physicians fired up like no other is a [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 4/11/2022 Part 2 of our discussion with John Lafferty MD regarding the need for [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 4/4/2022 Many of our podcasts have focused on concerns about the deterioration of nurse [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 3/28/2022 One of the strategic goals of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners listed [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 3/14/2022 As nonphysician practitioners increasingly provide more patient care, experts note a commensurate increase [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 2/28/2022 As our listeners already know by now, to be licensed to practice medicine, [...]

Almost every field of medicine today involves some type of nonphysician practitioner, whose role was originally created to help physicians see patients [...]

A few months ago, EM:RAP, a well-known and respected EM CME provider hosted a discussion about nonphysician practitioners in the emergency room.  [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD|1/3/2022 In part 2 of our discussion, Dr. Alyson Maloy and Dr. Phil Shaffer break down [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 12/20/2021 On September 29, 2021, the journal Medical Economics published an interview with Dr. [...]