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Facilities designer: Medicare is 'the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time'
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I will not allow any one else but an MD make a decision on health care Rx and management. Teeth are diffrent from health
Equating a dental hygienist with a physician...
The idea that NP and PA's can work equivalent to doctors and somehow improve quality while reducing costs, then being able to judge when physicians are performing in a "substandard" fashion.
My understanding of NP's, reading their literature, is that they have a lot more training so they can practice independently...seems like this logic of this architect (who doesn't actually practice medicine)is that NP's have more education to qualify them to practice medicine, and pass judgement on medical practice, but they don't have as much eduction as physicians, which would make them dangerous...
As a specialty physician, as long as I don't share the risk of these lesser trained folks, fine. I make a lot of money because they order a lot more expensive radiology examinations than do most physicians....a lot more lab...etc. etc.
How many doctors design hosptials? If this is the best the Healthcare Facilities Symposium could pick as a presentor, that explains a great deal. Doctors don't have the time for such nonsense lectures as they are doing VIABLE work. Leave your arm chair opinions for the coffee shop and local op-ed page. Better yet, design something real!





