NP lies

[Apollyon]

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Actually, a Doctorate of Medicine is considered to be a First Professional Degree, graduate entry degree or second entry degree. It's pretty much the same as a Bachelor's of Medicine, but in the 1800s, American Medical Schools switched to the tradition of the Ancient Universities of Scotland and adopted the M.D. instead. It may not be a Ph.D., but the fact that having a M.D. allows you to do your own benchwork, establish new areas of research, and publish pretty much makes it equivalent.

It IS the same - the first professional degree program in the Commonwealth comes after A levels, whereas in the US it comes after a bachelor's degree. I don't get what is your point. It IS undergraduate medical education; that's why I called it semantics. Even though the degree granted is M.D., it's still undergraduate education.

 

[Hernandez]

now half the states wont even look at you before 3 years are done.

Really? I didn't realize some states required that many years. I must have lucked out and been in nothing but states that give licenses after 1 year.

 

[laputan]

Look at this one, NP's are taught simply to defensively order a maximal number of tests and do unnecessary referrals to prevent getting sued. Meanwhile a doctor can get sued after one miss, and the NP not only saves her ass, testifies against the doc, but is made out to be the hero..

http://www.clinicaladvisor.com/ED-doctor-ignores-NPs-suggestions/article/141087/

 

[cicuRN]

Oh, come on, isn't that a little dramatic? Did you read the last line where the court says,

 

[cicuRN]

...whoops, where the court says, "Where there are two possible diagnoses, one of which is likely to be fatal if not treated, it is negligent not to perform a test that could rule it out." Pretty basic, no?