hopbalt

For one thing you can tell your state nursing boards to quit encroaching on the scope of MD work. Its no wonder MDs are mad. With the stroke of a pen and nothing more, nursing boards are directly competing against them. NPs would be spitting mad if there was a bill in the state legislature to give PAs independent practice rights. Everybody tries to protect their turf, including MDs, PAs, and NPs.

CoQ10 is NOT alternative medicine. As you can see, there is clinical trial data to back up its effectiveness. Doctors are now starting to embrace it. Alternative medicine is stuff like aromatherapy, chiropractic, homeopathy, etc. Those are all forms of quackery. Chiropractic is effective for CERTAIN KINDS OF LOW BACK PAIN. Of course, your chiro wont tell you that, he'll tell you that spinal manipulation cures cancer, heart disease, asthma, etc. He'll tell you that all vaccines are evil ploys by doctors for mind control. He'll tell you that his back popping technique can cure your infertility. Homeopathy is probably safe for the most part, but its 100% placebo effect. The fact that people claim that they feel better is irrelevant, because people feel better taking a sugar pill too, yet thats hardly considered "medicine"

You are really worried about trying to convince yourself of this arent you? When somebody really knows something, they dont go out of their way to shout it out to the whole world. I get the distinct feeling you are looking for validation from MDs. Why else do you mention them and attempt to slander and antagonize them with every post? The fact that you are now thinking about med school confirms it. You are jealous of MDs and therefore they are constantly in your thoughts.

That program is nowhere close to doing anything yet. The state boards still have to chagne the regs, and they havent done that either. Rigth now its a total guess if that program will go thru at all. There is going to be a huge fight over that, similar to the bill in Pennsylvania that was shot down by doctors. Every MD and DO in teh state of new york is going to organize to prevent that columbia thing from taking hold.

Everybody protects their turf. Quit pretending that its only the MDs doing it. If there was a new state regulation to allow PAs full scope as NPs, you guys would be outraged about it. Quit your "holier than thou" routine cause you and I both know that everybody is primarily interested in protecting turf, and that includes both NPs and MDs and everybody else. Everybody is watching after their own job... the rest is just excuses.

alternative medicine is quackery. If its labeled "alternative" that means it hasnt been proven safe and effective thru double blind, randomized placebo trials.