Innocent EKG findings lead to unnecessary ER visit: Why physician training matters
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.
Healing the healers: The Physician Support Line
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.
Utah physician on hiring unmatched medical graduates (associate physicians)
Nurse practitioner and physician assistant use are often justified because of a shortage of physicians, especially in underserved areas.
Psychiatrist explains dangers of NP-staffed mental telehealth platforms
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.
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.
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.
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.
Will an NP/PA perform your next colonoscopy? Part 2
Today we are going to explore the phenomenon of NPs and PAs performing colonoscopies
Will an NP or PA perform your next colonoscopy? Part 1
Increasingly, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are being asked to step into the role of physicians.
Physician, Own Thyself: Taking Back Professional Control
Tired of being owned by corporations, but don't want to open your own practice?
Nursing research leaders: NPs should not work alone in the ER
In Jan 2022, the Journal of Nursing Regulation published an article entitled: Analysis of Nurse Practitioners’ Educational Preparation, Credentialing, and Scope of [...]
Point of view: Let NPs and PAs practice independently – but hold them to the same standard as physicians
Attorney and emergency medicine physician William P. Sullivan believes that nonphysician practitioners should practice independently, but be held to the same medical [...]
The headlines don’t always match the data: An example of egregious methodology in NP literature
In several previous podcasts, you have heard us refer to research studies that claim to show that nurse practitioner care is just [...]
The secret to hiring and retaining good doctors and why hospital administrators don’t want to hear it
Douglas Farrago MD discusses why '9 out of 10 administrators' absolutely hate his new book, The Hospital Guide to Physician Retention: Why Creating [...]
Women physicians on scope of practice – Part 2
Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 5/9/2022 Sonal Patel MD and Jou Jou Hanna MD discuss the difficult choices that [...]
No shortcuts in medicine: why women physicians are fired up about scope of practice – Part 1
Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 4/25/2022 One topic that gets women physicians fired up like no other is a [...]
Is it time for an NP/PA ‘Flexner Report?’ Part 2
Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 4/11/2022 Part 2 of our discussion with John Lafferty MD regarding the need for [...]
Is it time for an NP/PA ‘Flexner Report?’ Part 1
Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 4/4/2022 Many of our podcasts have focused on concerns about the deterioration of nurse [...]
Equal pay for ‘equal’ work: Inside the NP fight to be paid the same as physicians
Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 3/28/2022 One of the strategic goals of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners listed [...]
Former PA and author of ‘Hospital Confidential’ discusses midlevel malpractice risk
Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 3/14/2022 As nonphysician practitioners increasingly provide more patient care, experts note a commensurate increase [...]
Is this the end of the full-spectrum Family Physician?
Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 2/28/2022 As our listeners already know by now, to be licensed to practice medicine, [...]
Who will be reading your next x-ray?
Almost every field of medicine today involves some type of nonphysician practitioner, whose role was originally created to help physicians see patients [...]
Responding to EM:RAP and the use of NPPs in the ER
A few months ago, EM:RAP, a well-known and respected EM CME provider hosted a discussion about nonphysician practitioners in the emergency room. [...]
Exposing mistruths in the AANP’s rebuttal to PPP – Part 2
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 [...]
Is PPP a ‘fringe’ group? Responding to the AANP’s accusations in Medical Economics
Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD | 12/20/2021 On September 29, 2021, the journal Medical Economics published an interview with Dr. [...]