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I don’t know many MDs that are hard pressed to find patients, I think most fight a bill like this because of how much medicine has humbled them over the years.

Exactly.

When someone jumps on MD’s as “scared of competition” it shows just how little they know about medicine.

I do not know of a single collegue of mine who is not completely swamped with patients. We are all overworked and we need more providers. I am personally excited about the idea of expanding the number of physician extenders but only under in house supervision.

But we don’t need substandard care.

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Posted by Scooby

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Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:49 pm to SECdragonmaster

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I am personally excited about the idea of expanding the number of physician extenders but only under in house supervision.

I am excited to see the ways that we can be of service to ER physicians (my "specialty") in the future. I hope to be able, some day after further training, to be able to place central lined and intubate patients so that the ER physician has more time to focus on the other aspects of the patients care (electrolyte correction, antibiotic delivery, consults, and admission.) I think that I can be of service in those areas, as well as starting work-ups on less complex patients while physicians are dealing with CVA, STEMI, and trauma patients. On my shift now, it is my goal that the physician doesn't have to do a Lac or I&D during their shift (if they dont want to). They check the lac before I start, and I call them if I find any tendon involvement/other complications. This keeps them moving other patients, instead of getting bogged down with procedures.

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