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Position Information: Lee Health / Golisano Children’s Hospital – Pediatric Emergency Medicine is seeking a full-time physician BC/BE in Pediatric ...
Fort Myers, Florida
Competitive compensation package- sign on bonus and relocation!
Lee Health physician group
Read MorePenn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center seeks a BC/BE Emergency Medicine Physician to serve as Director, Undergraduate Medical Education.
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Competitive salary & benefits at prestigious Pennsylvania health system
Penn State Health
Read MoreAkron Children's Hospital is seeking a Physician to join the Emergency Department out of the Boardman, Ohio location.
Boardman, Ohio
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Akron Children's Hospital
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One Response to “Emergency Physicians Explore the Future of the Emergency Medicine Workforce”
October 27, 2021
Concerned ED DocWhile I appreciate the time and effort some of these doctors have put into conversing with the editor, I feel like they are quite out of touch from our major concerns.
NPs and PAs are in not “advanced practice.” They’re mid-level practice at best. Yes it would be great to use them in a team setting but in reality in most EDs around this country the volume and staffing doesnt permit the ED physician from in-time reviewing what they see and do. This leads to the façade of a team dynamic and physician led ED while in reality it just puts our licenses at risk.
The newer EM grads, especially those in the past 1-5 years of residency (not to mention those currently in residency) didn’t get into emergency medicine to do telemedicine. We became EM physicians because we appreciated the complexity, randomness, and high pace (at times) of emergency medicine. We wanted to do procedures while also being able to take care whatever came through the doors.
Yes, I agree we need to recruit and make wanting to work in a rural environment a priority but thats not going to solve the 9,000 additional grad problem in 9 years.
Do something to stop the proliferation of profit driven (ex: HCA) EM residency programs. Stop promoting the usage of NPs and PAs in place of physicians. Create standards that require staffing requirements and in-time supervision of patients with mid-levels. Promote transparency in billing practices in our names. Stop the “full practice authority” that has proliferated the NPs and created a false sense of equivalency with physicians.