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Shielding Against NP/PA Malpractice
Hi all,
I am an EM physician in practice at a CMG hospital in the south. I've been reading through previous posts and am happy to see increasing recognition of the evils of these companies, as well as the concerns about scope creep by NPs/PAs. Other outlets have linked to this recent piece:
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and I am encouraged that the public is starting to take their health care into their own hands. But this has made me think about the risk of overseeing NPs/PAs, without performing my own evaluation. My department has hectic for years, but made far worse by COVID and steadily increasing acuity. There is no way for me to see all of the patients the MLPs see u…