dgenthusiast

Correct me if I am wrong, but you seem to run a primarily cash only practice. Most physicians don't do that. Obviously, you're not facing the same hassles and problems that physicians face since you only deal with a couple of insurance companies. And...

I respectfully point out that the 3-7 years of residency after medical school is still training. Medical school is considered as undergraduate medical education while residency is considered graduate medical education.

What you're still referring to is a cultural problem, not one that is inherent with the medical/nursing training system. Even if our health care workers switched to treating psychiatric patients the way they're treated in third world countries, once ...

Forgive me, but I don't see how that suggests there's a problem with medical or nursing training in the US. What you're referring to is a cultural issue. People with psychological issues tend to do better in third world countries because their cultur...

Unfortunately, that's a very bad stance to take in the realm of healthcare. Policies and protocols need to be driven by substantial evidence resulting from extensive studies. I would think that practically everyone involved in healthcare, and even th...

Unfortunately, it's not up to me to prove anything. The hallmark of statistics and experimental design is that it's up to the person making the claim (here, it's you) to provide evidence supporting their claim. So far, there's not a single study that...

And I'm sure physicians feel the same way when midlevels suggest that they're equivalent or have equal training as physicians. As a side note, did you really have to resurrect a thread that's been dead for over a month just to make a comment about in...

Thanks for the info. I appreciate it.

Unfortunately, there aren't any (yes I mean absolutely none) well-done studies that suggest that outcomes are equivalent beyond providing care for minor things that really don't require any training at all. There are many studies performed with flawe...

i'm confused. where did i ever say it was okay for another study (led by physicians) to use the same data? if the other study did that as well, that's a flawed study too. it doesn't matter who conducts a study. if there's a flaw in the methods, i wil...

It's interesting that you say that many physicians don't accept Medicare, Tricare, or Medicaid, but when I looked at the site you linked (presumably where you work), you seem to have a cash-only type of practice for the most part (with the exception ...

M3 is the first year dedicated solely to clinical training. But clinical exposure at most med schools these days begins within the first few weeks of starting M1. During the preclinical years, the clinical training teaches you to take proper H&Ps...

To be honest, I do not see the point in doing that. I'm also not entirely sure what you mean by "fusing" clinical training with didactics. It would be incredibly hard to have basic science lectures, exams, etc, like you would in the preclinical years...

The problem with that line of thought is that it assumes students applying to medical school already have determined what specialty to go into. That's very unlikely. The majority of people who enter med school with a specialty in mind go into a compl...

I actually disagree with you there. I don't think there are "a lot of people" questioning whether the lengthy and rigorous medical training for physicians is necessary. In fact, many people who are involved in medical education (ie. program directors...

Response of the President of the ASA (http://www.beckersasc.com/anesthesia/asa-president-offers-6-observations-on-study-of-crnas-as-sole-provider-of-anesthesia-services.html): "Dr. Alexander A. Hannenberg: As President of the ASA, I appreciate the ...

I encourage people to actually critically read the entire study, not the news articles, before posting on it. It's not a matter of "typical flamers" starting arguments. It's hard to discuss literature when one party (for example, the original poster)...

I cannot tell if you're a troll or if you're serious. If you're actually serious, that is one of the worst reasons to get a doctorate in any field.

Wanted a quick clarification here. You say that NPs are trained more as specialists but from a quick glance at several PA curricula, it looks like PAs receive more training (more clinical hours) in a particular specialty than an NP who is a specialis...

That should never be a positive thing to hear...

This is what I mentioned before. The current med students, residents, junior attendings, and even premeds, are becoming more and more politically active against any potential encroachment. This is largely been, IMO, due to increased awareness of midl...

You're right, we do keep arguing the same things over and over again. And neither of us are going change our minds. You're of the opinion that no evidence is needed to move forward while I'm skeptical and want evidence before okaying something. If...

Would you be kind enough to define healing and curing please? Not being sarcastic; I'm genuinely curious. Because as far as I understand, science is moving further and further away from voodoo medicine, not closer to it. I shudder to think how bad th...

I think most of your colleagues on this forum would vehemently disagree with you here. They would say they're practicing advanced nursing rather than medicine. I mean, don't get me wrong, I think that they're practicing medicine too. If walks like a ...

You're putting words in wowza's mouth. Where did he/she say that they would refer to the professor or scientist by their first name? Wowza just said that the professor wouldn't be referred to as a doctor and that's pretty understandable because in a ...