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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just want to raise my hand here as a health policy nut, and not and not a NP who sees these threads come up repeatedly…these are totally being seeded by the medical society (of Virginia?)

I have had both positive and negative interactions with NPs. More negative with  ads overall, but admit that is probably due to seeking out MDs. So, it makes sense if I see predominantly MDs the opportunity for poor interactions is higher. I have also
had poor interactions with an NP. but I haven’t written them off altogether. [/quote]

OP. You are missing the point. I’ve worked with plenty of NPs over my career. Some of them have been great clinicians who are fully competent to do their jobs. But without exception these were the old model of NP - had many years of experience as a nurse first before going back to school in a “real” NP program, not a diploma mill. Also nearly without exception, every patient I have gotten coming from one of the new model of NP training (online, they have to find their own training placements, very minimal clinical experience) has been mismanaged in some way, often dangerously. These diploma mill schools are churning out thousands and thousands of new NPs yearly - it’s not like this is a small niche issue. They will quickly outnumber physicians and the old style NPs.[/quote]

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