Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD|9/19/2021 Seven-year-old Betty died just 15 hours after she was evaluated by a pediatric nurse practitioner [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD|9/12/2021 Many of our critics accuse us of exaggerating the risks that patients face when physicians [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD|9/5/2021 In part 2 of our discussion about healthcare politics,  Dr. Kermit Jones, a California internal [...]

Rebekah Bernard MD and Niran Al-Agba MD|8/29/2021 More than ever, healthcare and politics are intertwined. Decisions made by politicians and have a [...]

In part 2 of this discussion with Dr. Marion Mass, a pediatrician and the co-founder of Practicing Physicians of America, we learn [...]

We all know that the health care system in the United States is expensive, with the U.S. spending more than any other [...]

On our last podcast, advocacy experts Dr. Purvi Parikh and Linda Lambert discussed steps that physicians can take to advocate for their [...]

Physicians are usually so busy taking care of patients that we sometimes ignore the political aspects of healthcare, leaving the decisions to [...]

When it comes to discussing the differences between physician assistants (PAs) and physicians, there is no one better to address the issues [...]

One of the biggest issues in medicine today is physician burnout, with almost 50% of all physicians reporting making active plans to [...]

We are joined by Eric Starkman, an investigative journalist who works to shed light on dangerous corporate practices in healthcare. Mr. Starkman is [...]

About 42% of physicians report feeling burned out, and about half of all doctors are making active plans to leave the practice [...]

On May 24, 2021, JAMA, or the Journal of the American Medical Association, published a viewpoint entitled: “Advanced Practice Clinicians—Neurology’s Underused Resource.” [...]

One of the ways that corporations have been successful in replacing physicians with lesser-trained medical practitioners is by creating a sense of [...]

One of the differences between physicians and nurse practitioners is that physicians are regulated by a state Board of Medicine, while in [...]

In our book, we dedicate several chapters to discussing the differences in training between physicians and non-physician practitioners. One of the most [...]

In part 2 of this discussion with emergency physicians Dr. Robert McNamara and Dr. Mitch Li, we learn about the dangers that [...]

When you are taken by ambulance to the nearest emergency department, you are completely vulnerable. This is not the time when you [...]

In recent years, there has been a massive increase in medical practitioners offering hormone therapy to patients. Since insurance doesn’t cover these [...]

Hospital organizations are increasingly replacing physicians with nurse practitioners and physician assistants who act as "hospitalists." John Chamberlain, the board chairman of [...]

In December, Patients at Risk aired two podcasts in which we discussed the case of Gerald “Jay” Baltz, a psychiatric nurse practitioner [...]

In our book, we discuss the case of Alexus Ochoa, a healthy 19 yr old woman who died when a nurse practitioner failed to [...]

Nearly half the states in the Union have legislated the unsupervised practice of medicine by nurse practitioners and currently, one state allows [...]

In our previous podcasts, we have focused on the differences in scope of practice between physicians and nurse practitioners. But other medical [...]

After the brain, the human eye is the most complicated organ in the body.  It is for this reason that a graduating [...]