I like to read. I always have, and I’m sure I always will. I read almost everything that I come across. I often find myself reading the articles on this site. Some I agree with and some I don’t, but I like that part of the site too. I read, and I learn and I’m informed, and I gain knowledge, but then something always seems to happen. I always wind up reading the comments section, and it always leaves me feeling the same way with the same thought: “What has happened?”
I’m a physician assistant, so I obviously read a lot of articles that pertain to my profession. Again, some I agree with and some I do not. What I never agree with is the comments section. Thread after thread of pure venom from all sides. What has happened to us? There is a war going on between physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners and I simply cannot understand why this is even an issue. When did we all become so arrogant and prideful that we rip each other apart from behind the keyboard? When did we stop caring about the patients? When did we stop caring about learning?
Mostly what I have come across on this site is bitterness and burnout and anger. Physician assistants and, even more so, nurse practitioners fighting to become something that we are not. Let’s just put this out here once and for all and be done with it: we are not independent practitioners, and we shouldn’t pretend to be. On the physician side, from what I can tell especially those in primary care, there is some sort of fear that they are being overtaken by those they deem unworthy to practice medicine and from bureaucratic administrators who are constantly forcing new rules into their practices.
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