re: Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists with CRNAs

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There’s no accurate way for someone in the field to convey this without sounding defensive, sadly. It’s quite true.

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I agree. This thread highlights that we as doctors are losing the PR war to the midlevels, with the biggest loser being patients and the biggest winners being corporate medicine.

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What I find particularly funny is that they have a HUGE role to fill in a tightly-focused, fairly repetitive task (above, for example) and are generally not prepared to take on the brunt of what people consider “general practice” without a lot of support.

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People think primary care is just refilling diabetes and HTN meds. It’s way harder than that, and some NPs can’t even do the basics correctly.

For the people in this thread who say midlevels do the same thing doctors do, I’m sure you will be fine letting Barbara manage you and your family’s health.

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I’m actually all for independent practice of mid levels under the condition they’re held to our standard-

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If they have to pass our boards, carry the same malpractice insurance, and I can testify against them in a court of law then I’m all for it.