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Against Advanced Practitioners – Medicine’s Social Pushback

February 22, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Recently I’ve been getting salty Twitter remarks about my ‘sympathetic views’ toward non-MD health care providers. These comments against advanced practitioners come from physicians working to take back the night and restore medicine to its rightful hierarchy. One confronted me with the absurd question: Are you willing to turn all of your family’s care over to ... Continue Reading about Against Advanced Practitioners – Medicine’s Social Pushback

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Physician Anesthesiologist

January 31, 2017 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

The anesthesiologist has been re-branded as the physician anesthesiologist. Check out the site for the American Society of Anesthesiologist. The Twitter feed for the American Society of Anesthesiologists has members referencing this designation. When you modify anesthesiologist with ‘physician’ it implies that anesthesiologists are no longer only physicians. I ... Continue Reading about Physician Anesthesiologist

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Hospitals, Physicians

Provider is as Provider Does

January 27, 2017 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

Some doctors don't like being referred to as a provider. I’m not crazy about it myself but I can’t help but think that the doctors spawned the term. Take anesthesiologists, for example. Some got in the game of outnumbering themselves with nurse anesthetists. Neonatologists learned that nurse practitioners could do their bread and butter. And it’s all fun and ... Continue Reading about Provider is as Provider Does

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