Increasingly, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are being asked to step into the roles of physicians. While surgeons and procedural doctors have been fairly insulated from this phenomenon, the tide is beginning to turn. Today colorectal surgeon Amer Alame MD discusses flaws in the 2020 paper, “Experience of nurse practitioners performing colonoscopy after endoscopic training in more than 1,000 patients.”

Riegert M, Nandwani M, Thul B, Chiu AC, Mathews SC, Khashab MA, Kalloo AN. Experience of nurse practitioners performing colonoscopy after endoscopic training in more than 1,000 patients. Endosc Int Open. 2020 Oct;8(10):E1423-E1428. doi: 10.1055/a-1221-4546. Epub 2020 Sep 22. PMID: 33015346; PMCID: PMC7508647.

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