alt Hacker NewsHow are NPs not just the trend of enshittification? Most doctors already aren't very engaged in the tiny 15 minute slices of appointments, and now we're supposed to be happy that they'll be even less educated? The most straightforward way to address the doctor shortage is to make it so doctors are spending most of their time on healthcare, rather than appeasing "insurance" company bureaucrats with onerous paperwork.
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Finding good (and available) primary care providers has always felt like going to the casino in my experience. Currently seeing an older NP who has been great. I could see a future with many more NPs. Obviously, if you know a guy or need a specialist, then do what makes sense.
What a weird comment. What do you think you need an MD for, in your primary care visit, that an NP can’t do? What do you actually know about their education? What do you actually know about licensing? How much time, in a day, do you think doctors are spending on “insurance”, and what specific experience leads you to believe that?
(Because the actual answer is “near zero for literally any provider who isn’t completely independent, and almost none of them are, anymore”.)
Or was this just a way to memetically add “enshittification” to a conversation it doesn’t even slightly apply to, but you think that’s currently trendy?
There are NP mills that will take you from high school, put you through an accelerated RN and prereqs and basically have you as an independent provider in just a few years out of high school (well, 4-5), that’s ridiculous.
Nurse-Practitioners work harder to get their certification than almost anybody who comments on HN and it is not OK to talk about them this way.