Multiple Doctors Facility - Is your Primary Care Physician of a Husband & Wife Private Practice ?

I am going for some cardiac stuff soon and have been told that a NP will be doing the procedure. I did send them a message asking them why and they basically told me a NP does all these procedures and to STFU although not in so many words. I don't have anything against nurses, my mom was one but I would be more comfortable with a doc. That said I zipped it and got with their program.

I'm sorry I'm so late to this thread, I just saw this today. My advice at the time would have been, instead of zipping it and getting with their program, I would have asked for a referral to a practice where you could have your procedure done by a physician.

You know, actually pharmacists know A LOT BETTER than doctors, what you should take for what. If pharmacists could only write scripts, we could cut out the middle man, and lots of time and money wasted. I mean, doctors serve their purpose. not so much when all you need is a script.

Yeah, problem is how do you know "all you need is a script"? I had a pharmacist on the phone a couple weeks ago working for one of the insurance companies. She called to tell me the medical director of the company didn't like the way I dosed a particular pain medication. She said to me "he's on xxx mg of morphine, which equals xxx mg of oxycodone". I had to stop her. The table of equi-analgesic medications is first-year pharmacy. I had to point out to her that 30mg of oral morphine equals 20mg of oral oxycodone. She started arguing with me.. then she had to google it to look it up. Things like this I deal with on a daily basis. So, what were you saying about pharmacists verses doctors? Most of the pharmacists I deal with are a resource who we have a great deal of respect for. They help us plan what our patients need. Still, their training is not in diagnostics, it's in theraputics, and this particular pharmacist was very wrong.

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