US Health Care Strip-Mined for Profit: Primary Care Physicians Becoming Scarce, Poorly Trained Nurse Practitioners Run Wild
US Health Care Strip-Mined for Profit: Primary Care Physicians Becoming Scarce, Poorly Trained Nurse Practitioners Run Wild
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The slow motion collapse of US health care is accelerating due to an acute and worsening primary care physician shortage.
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Nurse Practitioners do diagnosis, especially in Primary Care, just as well as an MD after a couple years of real world practice. The reason those people become NPs instead of MDs is because of the outrageous cost of schooling. We should make being an MD less daunting and make mid levels more respected.