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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP or PA is fine if you have an uncomplicated, easily diagnosable problem like strep throat that requires amoxicillin.  Anything even slightly out of routine and they just aren't intelligent enough to deal with it.  I've been misdiagnosed or received improper treatment from PAs/NPs many times, as have my family members.[/quote]

Most of the time they will just throw a z-pack at a likely virus even after testing negative for strep just bc they get thrills from the feeling of doing something…I mean if they actually told you you have a virus they’d have to suffer the same haters as responsible physicians do.[/quote]

I am an NP. I was a bedside nurse for a long time before I was an NP. I know what I don’t know. I have worked in Primary Care and specialities. In my experience, MDs give antibiotics much quicker than I do, esp in primary care. The time it takes to talk to a patient for symptom management for an upper respiratory infection and explain why he/she doesn’t need an antibiotic takes much longer than getting a Z-pack- which is what patients are used to. Some of that, I think, is just time saving for busy MDs.

Most of my NP colleagues are the same.

I don’t think intelligence has anything to do with it. Lots of super smart nurses out there. Education and training are different. 
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As a physician working with both NPs and MDs in general its more the MDs that know what they dont know.

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