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@DrSchechterMD MD, when you make comments w/o doing your homework you embarrass an entire profession.
1. No one has perused that bill better than this physician right here. Sent Jim Wood with the details BEFORE he ever submitted his bill. He ignored it. He was paid well. Need I remind you he is

@DrSchechterMD 2)a dentist and knows nothing about the practice of medicine.
2. There is malpractice data that exists regarding NP practice in CA. Published by the California Nurses Association(CNA) and the Nurses Service Organization(NSO)--they provide NPs with liability insurance. Bottom

@DrSchechterMD 3)line: payouts have increased. Now why would that be in a supervised state? Because supervision is lax. Poor oversight, people practicing medicine w/o a medical license, the results should not be surprising. Top 3 "specialty" areas with the highest payouts? Obstetrics,

@DrSchechterMD 4)neonatology and emergency medicine. My specialty. Top three areas of allegation? 85% of all closed claims between 2012-2016 involved medical mismanagement, errors in diagnosis and improper prescribing/management of controlled substances. Of these three, the one with the most

@DrSchechterMD 5)frequency was errors in diagnosis. Exactly what one would expect from those practicing medicine w/o a medical license. It is predictable. The Controlled Risk Insurance Company(CRICO) performed a benchmark study which conducted an analysis of 110, 000 opened and closed cases

@DrSchechterMD 6)with NPPs as NAMED defendants. This was done over a 10 year period(2008-2018) and cases selected from a database of 400,000 malpractice claims(approx 30% of all U.S. malpractice claims). Bottom line: the majority of cases involved errors in diagnosis. As far as I am concerned,

@DrSchechterMD 7)malpractice data for NPs in every FPA state should be obtained, as should data from the state boards of nursing to determine if indeed the quality the AANP(and you)tout is actually accurate. OR and AZ have had FPA for years, why has there been no follow up on patient quality of

@DrSchechterMD 8)care? Why the assumption that the care is just fine because, well, FPA has been around a long time? Don't you work at an academic center? Don't you know better than to accept something so subjective as a litmus test of fact? It is this kind of nonsense that place patients at

@DrSchechterMD 9)risk. Legislators and docs pontificating about issues they know nothing about, then passing laws that perpetuate the nonsense. Get informed. “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” ― Harlan Ellison

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