Quote:
Originally Posted by jstubbs
An NP can probably handle 75% of all doctor's office visits: all the worried parents hauling their kids in for a stuff nose, people getting vaccines for travel, prescribing antibiotics for minor infections, writing bloodwork requisitions, etc. A good implementation plan would have family medicine clinics with NPs working in conjunction with MDs at the same clinic, allowing the MDs to focus more time on the medically complex and out-of-NP-scope procedures.
However, like Scott h notes, it seems this plan pits NPs and MDs against each other rather than have them work together.
|
However....
Many very serious conditions first present themselves as "minor" symptoms.
Having lesser educated people handling "minor" infections and runny noses will lead to delayed or completely missed proper diagnoses, and we know where that leads.