@LeahHoustonMD @itsmadmedicine So PAs seek Optimal Team Practice which does nothing but promote the unsupervised practice of PAs and nobody says a f***ing thing, including physicians. NPs seek unsupervised practice in all 50 states and nobody blinks an eye, including my colleagues. The vitriol against
@LeahHoustonMD @itsmadmedicine 2)physicians by PAs and NPs on Twitter and my medical colleagues don't say s**t. Now a medical student who has a right to be concerned about encroachment gets jumped on and threatened? That's bulls**t. OTP and FPA make it clear, physicians are neither wanted nor needed. Yet
@LeahHoustonMD @itsmadmedicine 3)NPs/PAs expect us to train you while you keep insulting us. He has a right to be concerned about his future. And anybody who did not see the multiple posts by NPPs demanding their governors grant independent practice during this crisis is blind as a bat. There is no guarantee
@LeahHoustonMD @itsmadmedicine 4)or mandate that any NP or PA will actually work on the frontline, it is an assumption. To take advantage of this crisis to promote a political agenda is despicable. I'm not speaking to the NPs or PAs who do not have this intention, but I do not support any NPP who seeks
@LeahHoustonMD @itsmadmedicine 5)independent practice. Period. For the ER PAs in this thread, neither does the AAEM or ACEP. For the physicians who are criticizing this med student for expressing his fears and concerns about something very real, shame on you. NPPs do not have the same hours of training as MS
@LeahHoustonMD @itsmadmedicine 6)students. You know this, you were a med student. If you think the education is equivalent, then what the hell are you needed for? He never should have had to apologize for that fact--the education is not equivalent. It is the conflation of each discipline that disrespects all
@LeahHoustonMD @itsmadmedicine 7)of our disciplines. To the med student I say, I hope you archived the threats. If anyone threatens your matriculation, you send me a DM or contact Physicians for Patient Protection. No one has the right to interfere with your education. No one.
