Ensuring high-quality physician-led care in TX to keep patients safe. TX400 501c4 and TxP4P PAC. #heartofadoctor #physiciansforpatients
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Patients have the right to informed consent. They need to know who is treating them and what their credentials truly mean.
15 Nov 2023
Ambiguous titles that facilitate the defrauding of patients are not debatable; they are simply wrong.
Expansion of the title “doctor” to non-physicians serves no purpose aside from boosting billing & egos. Patients deserve transparency.
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11 Nov 2023
The Nursing profession is being decimated by NP diploma mills and corporate abuse of bedside nurses.
11 Nov 2023
The expansion of for-profit, online NP schools harms nurses, just as the degradation of training standards harms patients. We are witnessing a corporate assault against all of American healthcare.
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3 Oct 2023
They don’t have the foundational knowledge to parse-out pertinent information and prioritize treatment based on the lab data and exam, so they consult social media groping for answers. Why?
They didn’t go to med school.
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26 Sep 2023
The AMA does nothing. Residents with a 4 year MD get paid $60,000/yr with over $300,000 in debt. A Nurse Practitioner here can get paid $110,000/year with $35,000 in debt. Undergrad not included. NPs can be Dermatologists on Friday and Cardiologists on Monday.
25 Sep 2023
Medical students are dispirited by seeing nonphysician providers with less training than they have already delivering care. Learn more. spr.ly/6015uDYgR
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21 Sep 2023
To all the anesthesiologist who trained CRNAs, how do you feel now?
18 Sep 2023
.@aanacrna plans to unveil misleading infographic at VA meeting next week in DC, in latest attempt to exile anesthesiologists from the VA
#MedTwitter
#StopScopeCreep
#NPsLead?
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31 Jul 2023
CRNA brags about reading books written by physicians to claim superiority over physicians
#MedTwitter
#StopScopeCreep
#NPsLead?
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29 Jul 2023
Great example of how the false narrative of non physicians fully divorced from physician colleague and legislated to practice medicine are failing patients and worsening the physician shortage. All a profiteers model. Over referral drains the system. We need real Doctors!
21 Jul 2023
Grrrrr, nurse practitioners.
No, no no no, we can’t do our job and yours too.
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30 Jul 2023
“My model is upside down. [SCO's] profit margin is thin—it is a razor-thin number. We are virtually, truly, not-for-profit. But the surgeons, anesthesia staff, and the nursing staff are paid above-market rates, because they’re doing the work.”
Founder Dr. Keith Smith on our team.
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12)Reduction Act of 2023. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Indeed.
@pppforpatients @TakeMedBack @txp4p
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26 Jul 2023
11)what Gov. Lee has accomplished will set a precedent for other states to follow if they are serious about addressing the physician shortage. Last but not least, everyone who wishes to increase the number of U.S. physicians should support the Resident Physician Shortage
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26 Jul 2023
10)pending. Additionally, in May of 2023, TN Governor Bill Lee signed legislation that grants provisional licenses to international medical grads(IMGs) who possess full licenses in good standing in their country, thus increasing the number of physicians in TN. My hope is that
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9)As of Feb 2023, 292 APs are licensed to practice in Missouri and have expanded PC in rural areas by 3%. Since the introduction of this program, six more states(Arkansas, Kansas, Utah, Arizona, Louisiana, and Idaho) have enacted the same legislation. Tennessee has AP legislation
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26 Jul 2023
8)In 2014, he proposed legislation for the first Assistant Physician(AP) program in the U.S. This program enables unmatched grads to work in primary care, SUPERVISED, in underserved and/or rural areas, all the while maintaining their skills until they can re-apply to residency.
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26 Jul 2023
7)However, one individual recognized how absurd it was that so many potential physicians were left rotting on the proverbial shelf and believed that valuable education should not go to waste. Enter orthopedic surgeon and former Missouri state representative, Dr. Keith Frederick.
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26 Jul 2023
6)solution, our inadequate, corporatized, ho'ish hellcare system and government decided that the over-utilization of NPPs would be a cheaper and preferable option than using actual physicians.
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5)invariably led to a bottleneck in which many qualified grads could not match. On average, there are 8000 unmatched grads/year. That 8000 would go a long way in addressing the shortage AND improving access to physicians. But instead of lifting the cap, the most obvious
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4)In fact, the opposite occurred-a manufactured physician shortage due to the cap. To address this "shortage", more med schools opened-w/o aforethought. No one thought to concomitantly expand residencies to accommodate the expected increase in the number of med school grads. This
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3)1997, the Balanced Budget Act was passed by Congress to cut back on Medicare spending, including the funding needed for residencies. Congress capped the number of residency spots at 1996 levels. They have never lifted that cap. And the predicted glut never happened.
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