- 270 pages
- English
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About this book
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 What happens when you look up from your hospital gurney to find that the doctor has been replaced by a non-physician practitioner w
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Physician Shortage: A Manufactured Crisis
- Chapter 2: A Tale of Two Professions
- Chapter 3: Diploma Mills and Facebook Consults
- Chapter 4: The Death of Primary Care
- Chapter 5: Profits over Patients
- Chapter 6: Is There a Doctor in the House?
- Chapter 7: The Fall of the Ivory Tower
- Chapter 8: A Star is Gone: Mental Illness and the Rise of the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
- Chapter 9: Phoning It In: Virtual Mental Health Care
- Chapter 10: Non-Physicians and the Cash-Based Practice
- Chapter 11: And Justice for All?
- Chapter 12: Diverting the Titanic
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix
- References
- About the Author