Imposter Doctors

Patients at Risk

By: Rebekah Bernard

Narrated by: Rebekah Bernard

Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

When you experience a medical emergency, you expect to be treated by a licensed physician with expertise in your condition. What happens when you look up from your hospital gurney to find that the doctor has been replaced by a non-physician practitioner with just a small fraction of the training and experience?

From the co-author of Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare, the first book to warn of the systematic replacement of physicians, comes Imposter Doctors, an even more frightening exposé of patient endangerment at the hands of for-profit corporate entities and healthcare conglomerates.

In the two years since Patients at Risk debuted, the employment of non-physician practitioners has continued to skyrocket. While advocates insist that nurse practitioners and physician assistants are "just as good" as physicians, they are wrong. Despite over 50 years of scientific analysis, no conclusive evidence exists that non-physicians can provide safe and effective medical care without physician oversight. In fact, recent studies have shown the opposite: that replacing physicians puts patients at risk. The only cure for today’s healthcare crisis is for patients to become informed about who is providing their care. We must all know the difference in clinician education and training, and demand answers from those who would deprive us of physician-led care.

©2023 Rebekah Bernard (P)2023 Rebekah Bernard

Excellent and Evidence-based

Very well-researched and presented material illustrating the many facets of a very complex issue.

A MUST READ

Information EVERY patient needs to know.

And we will all be patients one day.

#beinformed #patientsoverprofits

This is Required Reading for Health Literacy

Absolutely fabulous summary of the current state of health care affairs in the United States. This should be required educational reading for all physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and registered nurses. Patient safety is the shared priority. Accountability is the only way forward. Dr Bernard makes this complicated subject digestible for the non-medical public. Let us hope that transparency will help patient advocacy win especially in light of our lack of health equity. Thank you for your dedication to the profession.

Fantastic, balanced book

This was a great read, carefully explaining the facts of life when it comes to midlevel, especially NP, training.

There are a lot of disingenuous one-star reviews attacking Dr. Bernard personally, and pushing the typical false narrative endorsed by the AANP and others. For example, that Dr. Bernard has a boutique practice, or doesn’t care for the uninsured or “indigent” patients—ignoring that she spent six years of her career caring for patients at a FQHC taking care of EXACTLY that demographic, and continues to provide a safety net for the uninsured in her DPC practice.

Sometimes the truth hurts: and this book delivers a LOT of truth.

PAs and NPs are valuable, skilled, and important parts of the healthcare team, but their training can be haphazard and substandard.

Incisive Expose

Fantastic and well researched, this book provides countless examples of how scope creep and unsupervised midlevel practice is negatively impacting patient care.