Once again CRNAs education downplayed

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:rolleyes:Another ignorant article...midway through it, it compares crnas salary to a family practice physicians and claims, on average family practice physicians make 16,000 dollars less than an CRNA...aas if they're even comparable. Lets not forget it downplays a CRNAs education as well. Plz someone that is better at correcting stupidity...write a letter or something.

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Am I missing something? For some reason I can't see/find a link to the article you mentioned...

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Specializes in Cardiac, Pulmonary, Anesthesia.

Specialist nurses paid higher salaries than family doctors - Mar. 11, 2010

It's a balanced article that also gives the AANA perspective. It also says that MDs have 4 to 5 years more medical training, which is slightly exaggerated.

I agree that FP needs to be paid more, but not because CRNAs make more money than they do.

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

An example of the reason why there is an income difference.

FP's treat a sore throat

CRNAs secure an airway on a child with acute epiglottis.

They are not even close in difficulty. In order words, the value of providing anesthesia services is higher than providing FP services.

If the FPs want to make as much money as CRNAs, they should reconsider their career choices.

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Specializes in Cardiac, Pulmonary, Anesthesia.
An example of the reason why there is an income difference.

FP's treat a sore throat

CRNAs secure an airway on a child with acute epiglottis.

They are not even close in difficulty. In order words, the value of providing anesthesia services is higher than providing FP services.

If the FPs want to make as much money as CRNAs, they should reconsider their career choices.

I disagree. We are reimbursed better because we are high procedure and low overhead. FP, in my opinion, carries it's own stresses. Often running a clinic, dealing with crap patients that get mad because you didn't answer your phone at 3 am when they had a cough. Not to mention that you see a dozen throats in a day, any one of which could be throat cancer so you can be sued any moment. In a small town you may be the only guy around to do ortho, obgyn, peds, radiology, etc. I know an FP doc who has to spend extra time learning about transplant and immunosuppressants because one of his patients is a cardiac transplant and is 3 hours from any center that knows jack about transplant.

Rural FP can be hard life and deserve way more than they make.

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We DESERVE what society says we do. Quite honestly a teacher or FP doc is far more valuable then the BEST athlete in the world, which one pays more hmmmm? Society determines what is fair, no one else.

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Salaries are all about supply, demand, and an heavy dose of politics. There's no justifying salaries based on skill, merit, education, difficulty, ...

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: $220,000 per yr

Judge Judy: $25,000,000 per yr

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