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Nursing and PCP are very different jobs. Ones a lot more cognitive than the other whereas the other involves actually doing/executing on a plan. I can see how AI would help reduce the cognitive burden while actually increase stress on the execution side.


Do you still get doctors for primary care? Our local hospital is hiring nothing but nurse practitioners now.

They're amazing in a support role, but not equipped as well for primary care roles.


I’d rather have an NP 10 times out of ten for primary care


While they definitely serve a purpose, primary care is not that.

If you present with anything other than healthy and fine, the ones I have had to see are less than helpful.

They simply do not have the depth or breath of training as a doctor. They're very good at executing a plan as part of a care team, and even making changes to that plan based on patient need. But they just simply aren't as good as doctors.

There's a reason they're replacing doctors. . . They're cheaper. That's it.


If you're more or less healthy they're fine. When things start to go sideways my experience is that they get out of their depth pretty quick.


Eh. There's a reason the entire noctor subreddit exists. NPs have their places. Replacing doctors with them isn't it.




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