Thread by @Suburbanbella

thehill.com/opinion/health… Here we go again. This time it is the American Academy of Physician Assistants(AAPA)using the pandemic to push their agenda of Optimal Team Practice aka OTP aka practicing medicine w/o a medical license. Same old broken record of "outdated regulations",

2)designed to protect the public, preventing them from practicing at the "top of their license", which to date, remains undefined. Same old tired a**"studies" that show equivalent or better outcomes than the physicians who train them. Studies that anyone with common sense can

3)review and see how poorly done they are. Same old rhetoric of claiming to want "collaborative" practice while their actions say otherwise. All under the guise of helping fill the physician gap when we have much better options such as unmatched U.S., IMG and FMG graduates.

4)Assistant Physician(AP) programs which allow unmatched medical graduates, who are actually MDs and DOs, to work in rural and underserved areas until they can match are another viable and better option. Every health care worker has stepped up to the plate in this pandemic,

5)as have non-health care workers. Using the pandemic as justification to legitimize bypassing medical school and residency is despicable. Those PAs who claim you do not support OTP, where are you? Telling physicians that you don't support OTP in Twitter or other social media

6)sites doesn't accomplish jack. Do it where it counts: at your state legislature, op-eds, in letters to the AAPA or your local chapters, etc. While you expect support from physicians, where is your support for us in this mess? While your colleagues continue to spout their

7)equivalence and accuse us of being anti-PA, the AAPA pushes an agenda that is anti-physician(OTP). This country is going to hell in a handbasket. Everyone wants to play doctor w/o doing the actual work to become one. Leaving the unsuspecting public to be the lab rats they can

8)practice on w/o oversight. It's all fun and games until the s**t hits the fan, then everyone is looking for the physician. Ask how many of these individuals who want to practice at the "top of their license" have their children or significant others managed by their colleagues?

9) What do you want to bet that the majority use physicians in their care? The hypocrisy is astounding. I'm not interested in the bulls**t that it is not their intent to impersonate a physician. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, quacks like a duck and waddles like a

10)duck, it ain't trying to be a gorilla. It is trying to be a duck. Without going to duck school.

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