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To: Reily
AMA is a cartel. Their strict licensing requirements are preventing entry into the healthcare field.

Nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants can do the same diagnosing and routine/general treatment that a doctor can. And they can establish practices in rural or inner-city areas that don't have them.

The AMA is to healthcare what the FDA is to drugs.

27 posted on 03/26/2017 5:33:56 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I agree but FedGov can’t snap its federal fingers and make it disappear!


30 posted on 03/26/2017 5:36:31 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

RNs spent 2 to 6 years to get their degrees.

Physicians spend 8 to 12, perhaps more if a certain specialty is desired.

Nurses simply don’t get the same training.

The Nurse practitioner will get most of it. They are allowed to do assessment and even prescribing. They are as close to a physician as you’ll get without being one.

There is a lot of responsibility that goes along with a physician’s license. Yes it’s tough to get there, but the process weeds out folks you don’t want anywhere near you. (Well most of them...)

There is more method to this madness than you may think.


40 posted on 03/26/2017 5:49:26 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
NP's and PA's are already doing a massive amount of medicine.
58 posted on 03/26/2017 7:32:05 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

No.. Nurse practitioners, nurses and medical assistants are decidedly not anywhere near as capable as a medical doctor with undergraduate prerequisites 4 years of a decent med school, a year of internship and 3 to 5 years of a residency and perhaps even a fellowship.

Do not be fooled.

Proprietary schools are turning out those types of para medical personnel who are no where near as vigorously trained as even the ones with the same degrees 2o years ago.


59 posted on 03/26/2017 7:35:30 PM PDT by amihow
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