re: How do you feel about Nurse Practitioners?

They are easier to see on short notice than your doctor. They have Strick instructions on what drugs they are allowed to write scripts for you and are about as likely to prescribe what the last drug salesman was pushing, just like your doctor does.

At Mississippi Sports Medicine, good luck seeing anyone other than a Nurse Practitioner if going to their open every day, walk-in-clinic. On your second visit for a legitimate appointment, you will see the Doctor, who will do pretty much what the NP did for you, unless he can talk you into surgery or a cat-scan, MRI, or scope.