I just got done blogging about a hospital that is mandating the use of nurse practitioner hospitalists when I have a patient give me their APRN experience.
Happy: Who's your doctor outside of the hospital?Patient: I don't have a doctor. I have an A-P-R-N.Happy: Wow. I'm surprised. Not a lot of people can distinguish the difference.Patient: Well, Hell. I haven't seen my doctor since 1985. The only people he sees now are healthy pregnant women and well baby checks.
I got to thinking, this doctor is a genius. He pawns off all his elderly, highly complicated, chronically ill, super morbidly obese, four pack per day smokers with chronic multiorgan failure to his APRNs who then admit them to Happy and his hospitalists while the doctor keeps the healthy pregnant women and healthy baby checks for himself.
When you think about it, this doctor has turned himself into an APRN being paid like a doctor and he's created doctors out of his APRNs being paid like APRNs.
What a genius.
