Nurse practitioners, health aides, pharmacists, dietitians, psychologists and others already care for patients in numerous ways, and their roles should expand in the future. The rise of nonphysician providers will enable more team care.Under O'care, it still might be worth it to become a nurse, aide, etc. Not so much for physicians.
So now seeing a nurse practitioner is the same as seeing a doctor??
Isn't that somewhat akin to asking a stewardess to fly the 747 that is her workplace?
So now seeing a nurse practitioner is the same as seeing a doctor??. The small part I read of obamacare it lets nurse practitioners do the work of doctors. it also lets them come into your home and inspect it
Barefoot doctors (Chinese: 赤脚医生; pinyin: chìjiǎo yīshēng) are farmers who received minimal basic medical and paramedical training and worked in rural villages in the People's Republic of China. Their purpose was to bring health care to rural areas where urban-trained doctors would not settle. They promoted basic hygiene, preventive health care, and family planning and treated common illnesses. The name comes from southern farmers, who would often work barefoot in the rice paddies.
In the 1930s, the Rural Reconstruction Movement had pioneered village health workers trained in basic health as part of a coordinated system, and there had been provincial experiments after 1949, but after Mao Zedong's healthcare speech in 1965 the concept was developed and institutionalized. In his speech, Mao Zedong criticized the urban bias of the medical system of the time, and called for a system with greater focus on the well being of the rural population.[1] China's health policy changed quickly after this speech and in 1968, the barefoot doctors program became integrated into national policy.[1] These programs were called "rural cooperative medical systems" (RCMS) and strove to include community participation with the rural provision of health services.[2] Barefoot doctors became a part of the Cultural Revolution, which also radically diminished the influence of the Weishengbu, China's health ministry, which was dominated by Western-trained doctors.
So now seeing a nurse practitioner is the same as seeing a doctor??
Isn't that somewhat akin to asking a stewardess to fly the 747 that is her workplace?
Yep............
So now seeing a nurse practitioner is the same as seeing a doctor??
I haven't seen a physician in three years. Nurse practitioners can even do wellness exams and are easier to get in to see.
I'd just has soon have a doc on the other end of an email. And why can't pharmacists (who administer shots) do blood tests?
What in hell are you talking about? What do you mean "do blood tests?" Do you mean prescribing the specific blood test, drawing the blood from the patient, or performing the actual testing on the blood sample?
AS USUAL he doesn't have the first clue as to what he is talking about!