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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Absolute bull####. Where are you gleaning this kind of crap from? The Smith and Lagrange circus act?
This is the kind of misinformation that weighs on an already strained system. Docs need the help of NPs but under no circumstances can docs be replaced by them. NPs are not qualified to perform the same services as doctors - they perform primary care, and physicians perform medical diagnoses, specialty care, and treatments.
It's this kind of demonization as just another reason why docs continue to leave the province and residency spots get unfilled. Do better than spew political conjecture.
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Anecdotal, based on what I am hearing of things. Also agree with you docs cannot be replaced by NPs but there is a lot of job protectionism going on with the current system for some certain roles doctors play that could be adjusted; there’s actually a lot of little examples. I’ll give you another one, the requirement to go get a prescription for simple #### that a doctor need not be the one to give but that other health care professionals absolutely are qualified for, yet are not allowed to. You need to see a doc to get an asthma puffer or topical cortisone steroid prescription refilled? Mmm yeah okay…… ONLY docs can do that right?? I call BS.