Patients at Risk

The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare

By: Dr. Niran Al-Agba, Dr. Rebekah Bernard

Narrated by: Manny James

Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare exposes a vast conspiracy of political maneuvering and corporate greed that has led to the replacement of qualified medical professionals by lesser trained practitioners. As corporations seek to save money and government agencies aim to increase constituent access, minimum qualifications for the guardians of our nation’s healthcare continue to decline - with deadly consequences. This is a story that has not yet been told and one that has dangerous repercussions for all Americans.

With the rate of nurse practitioner and physician assistant graduates exceeding that of physician graduates, if you are not already being treated by a non-physician, chances are, you soon will be. While advocates for these professions insist that research shows that they can provide the same care as physicians, patients do not know the whole truth: that there are no credible scientific studies to support the safety and efficacy of non-physicians practicing without physician supervision.

Written by two physicians who have witnessed the decline of medical expertise over the last 20 years, this data-driven book interweaves heart-rending true patient stories with hard data, showing how patients have been sacrificed for profit by the substitution of non-physician practitioners. Adding a dimension neglected by modern healthcare critiques such as An American Sickness, this book provides a road map for patients to protect themselves from medical harm.

©2020 Universal Publishers (P)2021 A Doctor Writes

Shocking and Eyeopening

**To anyone who has been treated by a nurse practitioner, physician assistant, CRNA, nurse midwife, or other non-physician providers or is unsure if they have or have not, this book is for you.**

Healthcare is being taken over by greed. Medicine is the opposite of greed. In the name of “access to care” and “cost savings”, patients are being put at greater risk by convincing the public that mid-level providers are somehow equivalent to physicians while practicing independent of them. The problems that healthcare faces are not being solved by more mid levels and their expansion of scope. And in many cases, the problems are worsening. Mid-level providers are crucial members of our healthcare team like all others. It is when we disassemble this team and appoint more than one quarterback, that the patients suffer.

One of the scariest nonfiction books published

This is a must-read book if you are an American utilizing US healthcare services. Patients need to be educated about who is treating them and demand physician-led care.

Eye-opening

I wouldn’t trust the flight attendants to fly in place of the pilot; why are we tolerating this in healthcare?

Revealing

I had heard the same NP talking points but hearing that the original studies showed NPs less safely managing patients, thus requiring oversight and not saving costs.

Thank you for the enlightenment!

Very well written and educational. Would recommend to any future doctors as well as patients. Thank you so much for elegantly writing this book.