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1. MD, DO, NP, DC, OD -- Who deserves the title PCP?

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   PS. that definition at the end of my last post was not meant to be a signatory ie Primary Care Physician -- it just looks that way because of the placement in the text below my name. I won't consider myself a Primary Care Physician until the governme...

2. MD, DO, NP, DC, OD -- Who deserves the title PCP?

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   Tenesma, Thanks for your post. Each of us can probably recall a personal experience where we knew more (or less) than another provider. For example I can recall asking a veteran internist how he teaches his patients to do Kegel exercises. He said tha...

3. MD, DO, NP, DC, OD -- Who deserves the title PCP?

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   It's nice to see a spirited debate around this subject. I need to ask PA-C, when you said, "we need to know when to refer" to whom did you mean? For example, when you worked in a Primary Care Practice, and worked up a patient who had Cholelithiasis ...

4. MD, DO, NP, DC, OD -- Who deserves to carry the title Physician?

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   our professional scope of practice asserts that our role is to assess, diagnose, and treat in health and illness. from assessing, diagnosing, treating - diabetes, thrombosis, heart disease, infection, emphysema, hep c, hiv, etc, to rendering prenatal...

5. MD, DO, NP, DC, OD -- Who deserves the title Physician?

   RMARTINNC posted a topic in NP

   our professional scope of practice asserts that our role is to assess, diagnose, and treat in health and illness. from assessing, diagnosing, treating - diabetes, thrombosis, heart disease, infection, emphysema, hep c, hiv, etc, to rendering prenatal...

6. MD, DO, NP, DC, OD -- Who deserves the title PCP?

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   our professional scope of practice asserts that our role is to assess, diagnose, and treat in health and illness - head to toe, physical and behavioral. from assessing, diagnosing, treating - diabetes, thrombosis, heart disease, infection, emphysema...