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Maybe instead of taking the approach that you are a nagging mother, you should try giving some professional advice and leave it up to your patient to take it or leave it. People might respect your advice more if given in that fashion. Don't think that nagging someone by repeatedly using terror tactics is going to advance your point with them.

Nobody said that independent practice makes a nurse practitioner a physician.

I agree completely. There is simply no need for supervising or collaborating physicians. The scope of practice is what sets them limit. Physicians are only necessary when there needs to be a referral for specialty care for a patient.

Nobody ever said this was limited to doctors. This is aimed at unethical behavior, regardless of what the profession.

You really have to be kidding, I am going to assume that you are. This is the same sort of stuff that doctors do when they disclose at the end of a study which drug company they took money from and expect us to believe that they are independent and unbiased. It can't happen! There is no way that they remain independent. They must really not teach these people any ethics.

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What are you talking about? You don't think you are competent?

Personal attacks are not appreciated and from what I understand are not tolerated. There is no reason for you to question Ann's competency here. Let's just get down to business here and answer the question. Doctors are hostile towards the DNP and towards NPs in general becuase they have the a huge chip on their shoulder. They have enjoyed an unwarranted monopoly for WAY too long and they are about to lose it. I guess if I were them I would be upset about it too, but that is still no reason to deprive the public of access to care from autonomous NPs.

This is where it comes down to personal freedom. The fact that NPs are not allowed to practice autonomously is unconstitutional. You choose to have whoever you want to treat you and keep your beliefs to yourself. Stop trying to push your silly reservations about NPs on everyone else in society. Nobody really asked for your opinion. Physicians have basically hijacked medicine and healthcare alike and taken it as their own. They have made the costs balloon in the last 40 years and are ruining the system. If you want a physician's hand in the matter, why don't you go pay for it and let the rest of us get what we want.

Why are they not interchangeable? 1. The prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being. 2. The science of diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease and other damage to the body or mind. Hmmm, why don't you tell me which is which?

Physicians are far from the gold standard in patient treatment. They are not well trained in a number of fields. Physicians know extremely little about a number of things. Despite all of their training, they know very little about nutrition. They aren't well versed in physical therapy. Physicians are not superior to other health care providers, they are simply different. I don't want a physician when I need a dental hygenist. I don't want a physician when I need a social worker. You need to take off those blinders and realize that healthcare is much larger than physicians. They are know longer the king of the hill and never will be again.

The top of the food chain? What exactly do you mean by that? And how do you figure that physicians will always be there. Please explain yourself and add some citations here. Don't you have to prove it if you make the claim? Isn't that the hallmark of statistics and research?

Who is it that considers it to be so? Don't you need to have a citation for that? We certainly can't just take your word for it.

Are you joking? Show us the citation for where you came up with this garbage on the "hallmark of statistics and experimental design".

Where exactly did you learn to do your math anyway? Since when did 4 years equal three times 2-3 years? The other thing that is amazing is that you can't understand what a subset is. Have you ever heard of one? Physicians never should have been in control of medicine either. That is the leading problem we have in healthcare today. They have WAY too much control and far more than was ever warranted or deserved.