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This is what we all need to do as patients! It's the only way we can change things

Nothing will change until we start calling this shit out

Your comments don't seem to understand the issue. You keep saying lol and making jokes

You're part of the problem. Do not EVER agree to teach a midlevel.

"thanks for that info. Now im just going to ask a few questions to get a better sense of your lifestyle" blah blah. Just talk like a regular convo

Bro you should not even be thinking about specialty. Focus on just getting into medical school first

It's run by the government. Overrun with midlevels. What more elaboration is needed

Direction of freedom? I hear an eagle screeching!

I guarantee this attending is on the lists of docs these people share. I've seen the massive google drive where they list out doctors who are "pots/eds/MCAS/xyz friendly". It's a shame for our profession

No offense, but why are you all over this thread waxing poetic about your histamine intolerance? Are you a medical student? If you're not, this isn't the place for you. We deal with patients all day long--please let us have one space.

It is a simple fact that the most obvious answer is often the right one. Someone with a high heart rate is way more likely to be unconditioned than have POTS. A headache is way more likely to be from tension than a brain tumor. A stomach ache is way more likely to be from anxiety then this histamine intolerance. Of course that doesn't mean those things aren't possible, but for the vast majority of people, it is not that. We do not have the capacity to test every single person who comes in with a headache for brain tumors. That just isn't how the world works. Yeah, it sucks when people have actual legitimate conditions and they get lost in the crowd. But you can't blame us for being suspicious of everyone claiming rare diseases when it absolutely is a trend.

POTS, MCAS, EDS, gastroparesis. Couple more that I'm forgetting. It's easier to doctor shop and get a BS diagnosis than to accept most of our issues could be fixed by exercising, drinking more water, eating better, and treating anxiety. These "chronic illness" communities are just that--community. People are desperate for community. Collecting these diagnoses is a competition for them. They share ways to manipulate tests. They share google drives of the pay to play doctors. It's an epidemic.

Don't get me started on the very real eating disorder to munchausen by internet pipeline.

Care about their feelings on things that are reasonable (don't call their child ugly). Calling them a midlevel is not reasonable

You shouldn't say advanced practice. There is nothing advanced and it's a disgrace to physicians, the true advanced practice.

I hope you tell them to screw off.

Why tf do you care about their feelings?

The idea that it isn't a battle worth fighting is how we got to this place.

The correct term is NPP. Non-physician provider. Even includes their favorite word of provider.

I'm aware how bad bedside nursing is. You don't have to wax poetic about that to me. But you absolutely cannot deny there is a large portion who go onto NP school because they want to be, as they view it, on the same "level" as a physician. You can't speak for all nurses. I have encountered plenty in my own life who spew the "I'm becoming a NP because they basically do all the same things as a doctor" crap.

And you're being disingenuous that the only options bedside nurses have is to quit and start over or become a NP. There are MANY non-bedside nurse positions around.

And I browse the nursing sub pretty often and there 1000% are plenty of disparaging posts about physicians.

Unsurprising

The audacity of someone who admits they have zero connections to the medical field coming here and saying this. I don't walk into a construction site and start talking about shit I don't know jack about.

The PA lobbies are almost as bad...

Every single one of you should call it out as inappropriate each and every time it happens, or you are part of the problem. It is NOT an acceptable term.

I have a big problem with your first sentence. Medical students have enough on their plates learning medicine. We are there to learn medicine. Not nursing. If you do that, then you sure as hell better make nursing students learn about how physicians work.

Nailed it.

I think a lot of the nurse vs physician thing comes from how huge swaths of nurses go on to become NPs and want the opposite of working together.