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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's your right OP. If that's what you want and willing to wait, insist on it. DW is a cardiology NP and had a patient like you. Rather than seeing DW, wanted to wait 6 weeks for a doctor. The idiot died of heart attack while waiting. DW could've saved his life by catching his problems but what can you do. [/quote]

That's fine for your DW but patients who want to see a cardiologist MD and make an appt to do so should be able to as well. It's not irrational to have the preference for the person with more training, sorry.[/quote]

MD cardiologist - had to take premed courses, take MCAT and score above 90th percentile, medical school with multiple board exams, 3 years of internal medicine residency working over 80 hours a week. Had to at the same time publish and be top of resident class to
Match into cardiology. In addition to another board exam and also internal medicine boards.Then 3-4 years of rigorous fellowship training in cardiology with board exam at end.

NP- nursing school, then NP school (sometimes accelerated) with 500 or so clinical hours in a variety of fields. Then immediately works in cardiology.

Yes of course they are the same. [/quote]

It's like you have a honda civic vs ferrari f40. most of the time, either is fine. if you are driving the autobahns in germany, yes, def you want a f40. how often do you drive the autobahns? [/quote]

OMG I love this analogy. Maybe we can squeeze in a situation where a Honda Civic is preferable? Once I was getting treatment for a major medical issue that I almost died from and while the emergency really did require a doctor's care, the doctor neglected to tell me some very important information about how to manage the recovery. If my nurse practitioner hadn't told me it would be been a really, really rocky road. [/quote]

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