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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Declaring nursing certifications to not be professional degrees is quite the move, right as the whole health care industry is moving to using NPs and RNs as primary care in place of actual MDs.

Because they can be paid less, see more patients, do fewer things overall and just farm out the referrals and renew prescriptions. They can't diagnose on the spot. I have excellent health insurance and haven't seen an actual MD in years now. I do technically have an MD upstream who gives the A-OK on prescription renewals but my NP visits are like 10 minutes long.

And I knew something was up when I presented a couple of years ago with a small but weird skin rash for which I got an in-network dermatologist referral. A quick google of images at home said it was absolutely 100% ringworm and I bought my own OTC meds, but that was amazing to me that the NP wouldn't even opine on what it "could" be. She actually said "I can't tell what that is today" ... I did not see the derm, I just cleared it up on my own.

In the US most MD physicians and dentists and oral surgeons are very well off. It's like you can see the Red Sea of wealth parting ... you guys up here, you guys down there.

[b]When do dental hygienists start giving initial consultations?[/b]

That doesn't seem far away.

Paralegals are already doing that. [/quote]

Now. My dentist moved to this model last year. I only see the dentist once a year for 3 minutes after the hygienist has performed the work. [/quote]

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