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re: Defeat the Nurse Practitioner scope of practice expansion - Louisiana SB 187
Posted on 4/11/16 at 1:52 am to Breesus
Posted on 4/11/16 at 1:52 am to Breesus
Pharmacy school is very very hard. It is not equivalent/identical subject matter to medical school. Pharmacists study pharmacy. Not medicine. Pharmacists should not be primary care doctors. Nobody but a medical doctor should be a medical doctor. Go to the school for which you aim to work. Pharmacy is spectacular but it's not primary care. Nursing is great but it's nursing. Until you've lived thru at least an internship and witnessed a huge spectrum of pathology up to and including death you should not be autonomously practicing medicine on patients due to safety issues
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Posted on 4/11/16 at 1:55 am to LATigerdoc
I just group you guys all into the medical field. Nurse practitioner, dentist, pharmacist, doctor, etc. All the same..
J/k
J/k
Posted on 4/11/16 at 2:00 am to LATigerdoc
Have nothing at all against pharmacy whatsoever but how do you equate that with medical school? Medical school involved scrubbing in on colon resection surgeries and corralling schizophrenic patients in the psych crisis unit and catching syphillis babies at 5 am and witnessing crash c sections and helping intubate patients in the OR and draining gluteal abscesses in the ED and learning how to test for fetal heart tones, how to get a placenta out of a uterus safely, how to examine a pediatric patient in clinic, looking at chest X-rays, scrubbing in emergent chest surgeries, taking to patients who hallucinate and counseling them. You are not aware of what you're talking about. Pharmacy is wonderful and certainly challenging and extraordinarily necessary in society but not the same thing as medical school. They have purposeful differences
Posted on 4/11/16 at 2:03 am to LATigerdoc
Well I trust you on that. That is a lot of shite too know no wonder you guys are in school for like 13 years. 
Posted on 4/11/16 at 2:06 am to FLBooGoTigs1
And helping take necrotic limbs off people. Fixing giant wound vacs covering one third of a one hundred pound thigh which has a foot wide hole in it. Y'all all go home and stop spouting nonsense till you've studied for a decade and know of what u speak
Posted on 4/11/16 at 2:09 am to LATigerdoc
And who might you be so wise in the ways of science?
Posted on 4/11/16 at 2:09 am to LATigerdoc
It takes a special breed to be in the medical field I just never thought of becoming a doctor. shite sounds like it's pretty easy to do. Well frick lost another one, TOD 1230 am, hot nurse time for my sponge bath. Doc you guys got it good.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 2:11 am to BRgetthenet
BR impress this doc with your golf talk. I bet he couldn't carry your golf bag on the course.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 9:21 am to SmackoverHawg
Maybe people don't want to deal with pretentious doctors......
Posted on 4/11/16 at 9:29 am to WalkingTurtles
That's fine. They still have the option of well supervised, well trained mid-levels.
Not passing this bill doesn't change that. But passing it opens Pandora's box. Just a warning. It probably won't affect hardly anything for the most part. I just hope people realize that big hospital groups are pushing this so they can replace docs with cheaper labor, but your prices won't be going down. Which stands to benefit me. I'm good either way. Just giving an educated opinion on the matter.
Not passing this bill doesn't change that. But passing it opens Pandora's box. Just a warning. It probably won't affect hardly anything for the most part. I just hope people realize that big hospital groups are pushing this so they can replace docs with cheaper labor, but your prices won't be going down.
Which stands to benefit me. I'm good either way. Just giving an educated opinion on the matter.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 2:54 pm to bubbz
quote:
my mother is probably the exception the rule
You could have ended your statement there. Grad school is ridiculously easy to get into and for every 1 good NP, there are probably 5 that needed 3 times to pass their boards.
Posted on 4/14/16 at 11:16 pm to toosleaux
And then the independent midwife part... How is this possibly being considered? Cannot imagine how that's a safe/good idea with something as precarious a childbirth
Any updates on the status of 187?
Any updates on the status of 187?
Posted on 4/14/16 at 11:28 pm to LATigerdoc
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How is this possibly being considered?
A group is donating to politicians of mediocre intellect. Or, they're just greedy pos's.
Posted on 4/14/16 at 11:53 pm to LATigerdoc
It's currently on the House Health and Welfare committee docket. Please contact your house rep to answer questions and urge a NO vote. Had a couple of amendments in Senate prior to passage. It's still a disgrace and insult to physicians, and an unsafe proposition for patients.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 12:28 am to SmackoverHawg
The level of utter ignorance in this thread is making my eyes bleed. 
Posted on 4/15/16 at 9:18 pm to DrTyger
that sounds troubling the eye bleeding
Posted on 4/15/16 at 9:21 pm to LATigerdoc
Actually all of this is most troubling
Posted on 5/7/16 at 11:48 am to TheOcean
They're at it again.... Np bill to be voted on this Tuesday and the PT bill will be voted on this Wednesday. Call your state senator/state rep to oppose these bills, and to protect patient care/safety and the practice of medicine in Louisiana.
Posted on 5/7/16 at 11:59 am to LATigerdoc
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protect
PT direct access is available in the majority of states already and approved by Branches of the is armed forces. There is no evidence to show that patients are at any higher risk. However, there is evidence that Direct access to PT improves health costs.
Ite not a scope change. PTs only want to do PT. We are well trained at recognizing red flags that would indicate issues that would not respond well to PT.
This post was edited on 5/7/16 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 5/7/16 at 12:23 pm to LATigerdoc
frick off doc. You know damn well it's all about competition to your clinic. These NP's tend to be more involved with their patience and not running a stop watch to regulate their time with them. Most doctors are so old school they do not even practice the latest medicines designed to counter today's illnesses and problems.
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