As a patient, you do have the right to refuse to be treated by anyone. You may have to wait for a physician to be available, but no one can treat you without your consent and you can always ask for a provider’s title and licensure.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a Nurse Practitioner without knowing exactly what the outcome would be, and realistically that does take a lot of burden off doctors so long as they correctly recognise what they should and shouldn’t do.
I expect that rules will catch up with the existence of LLMs, the problem is for those few generations that have to live through the transition period…
Nope. They can (and these days often do) go straight from their nursing degree to an NP program with no real work experience.
Oh great. Just what I wanted to hear.
As a patient, you do have the right to refuse to be treated by anyone. You may have to wait for a physician to be available, but no one can treat you without your consent and you can always ask for a provider’s title and licensure.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a Nurse Practitioner without knowing exactly what the outcome would be, and realistically that does take a lot of burden off doctors so long as they correctly recognise what they should and shouldn’t do.
I expect that rules will catch up with the existence of LLMs, the problem is for those few generations that have to live through the transition period…