re: SB 435 would allow advanced practice nurses to not work under a physician

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you can’t compare us to the European countries

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I completely agree. Everyone in America has to have a diagnosis right now, right this minute, and they need to feel better before they go on their cruise at the end of the week. LOL. It's ridiculous.

I actually took care of a couple from Canada who were traveling with the husband for work. The wife said before she left Canada, she had a completely free (she understood that nothing is free) full work-up. EKG, labs, stress test, colonoscopy, PAP...literally full work-up. The only problem, like she said, is that if something was found on her work-up that needed further investigation, it would take 4 months or more to get in with a specialist. That is the thing that American's don't realize. If we need people to get in with a specialist, we can pretty much make it happen in a timely manner (a majority of the time). It won't be tomorrow, and it may not be next week, but it will happen in a time frame that the condition dictates.

Edit: And not to mention we are a much more heterogeneous group than a majority of the European countries we are compared to.