Lead author Andrew W. Phillips, MD, MEd, joins me to discuss the brand new study 'Effects of Non-physician Practitioners on Emergency Medicine Physician Resident [...]

Efforts to replace physicians are occurring not only in corporations but in academia. The University of Pennsylvania's radiology department seems to have a particular [...]

How does a healthy patient go into an urgent care for a routine physical---and end up in the emergency department? Emergency physician Andrew Wilson [...]

Nurse practitioner and physician assistant advocates often assure physicians that they face little liability or risk when performing supervision, insisting that NPs and PAs [...]

Stephanie Markle DO MPH explains the importance of physician training, and why there are no shortcuts in medicine.

When Karen Saintsing, DVM, a farming community veterinarian, developed sudden severe pain in her arm, she visited her local urgent care, where an NP [...]

HIGHLIGHTS: Colorectal surgeon Amer Alame MD shares his concerns about studies claiming that NPs can perform safe and effective colonoscopies.

Increasingly, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are being asked to step into the roles of physicians. While surgeons and procedural doctors have been fairly [...]