re: How do you feel about Nurse Practitioners?

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its like you didnt even read the post you quoted. you missed the point of decreased right lung sounds -> foreign body. the point was the doc's expertise helped solve the problem when the np didnt order the cxr for continued wheezing. the point was theres a difference in midlevels and physicians competence.

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To be fair, on an otherwise healthy child most MD’s wouldn’t initially order a CXR either until it was noted to be an ongoing problem.

If it was an 85 year old, probably a different story. Every situation is different.

There are good and bad NP’s, just as there are good and bad MD’s.