You’re the one introducing emotion into this, I am stating simple facts. NP training is not regulated the way physician training is (500hrs vs minimum 15k hours). Patients deserve to be seen and treated by the highest trained person - especially when they’re being charged the same regardless.

Do you want your or your loved one to be seen/treated by a physician who has trained in one specialty over the course of years (passing a multitude of board/fellowship examinations, amassing thousands of hours of experience before practicing independently) or do you want you/your loved ones to be seen/treated by someone who completed a nursing degree and online classes who can switch from specialty to specialty at any moments notice? The public is being fooled into thinking there is equivalency there.

Again, we need more good nurses and physicians, we don’t need more midlevels.