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