I find that AANP post insulting to all primary pare doctors out there. This really pisses me off
"independently licensed providers, primary care providers, healthcare professionals, and clinicians."
My dad is an old school family doctor, he delivered over 1000 babies, still performs minor surgery in his office everyday, used to see patients in the ICU, Ward, Clinic, and first assist with surgeries all in the same day. The system now wants to consider him a primary care provider and these NP's with 1/1000 of the training and experience want to demand the the same title. What a joke....this has to stop, doctors across the land need to stand up for themselves and take legal action against this nonsense. NP's/DNP's are not clinicians, they are mid levels plain and simple.....To all DNP's, go to medical school, do a "real residency," your underhanded attempts to usurp our authority with political deals instead of hard work and education is pathetic. Lose the chip on your shoulder and know your role in health care, your knowledge and training will always be inferior to MD's/DO's until you actually go to Medical School and do a residency, that's why we are Doctors and your role is to carry out our ORDERS
.......Adios