http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/04/14/state-may-expand-nurse-practitioners-authority/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-may-expand-nurse-practitioners-authority Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 23:44:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/04/14/state-may-expand-nurse-practitioners-authority/#comment-23635 Dr. Hay Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:00:47 +0000 http://msbusiness.com/?p=22315#comment-23635 We need to stop this madness. I work hard for my medical degree. Nurses are nurses and doctors are doctors. If you want to call yourself a doctor then go to medical school and get a full medical education. Don’t take the half ass training route in which you are not qualified and call yourself doctors. There was a reason for the Flexner Rep[ort in 1910 and there is still a reason for it now that all physicians should have the same or comparable training. Are Nurse Practitioners, PA’s and Midwives any different? Also, why aren’t they forced then to pay a higher malpractice than physicians be cause of the minimal training they do? Physicians need to come together and fight against this madness. The training for NP’s are limited in scope irrespective of attaining a doctorate. Maybe we should call a doctorate in Physical Therapy a PM&R physician and a doctorate in NP that specializes in Neourosurgery a Neurosurgeon. Good luck with that patient.

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