It is a simple technique. Make promises that you are not trying to compete with doctors. State the you only want to increase your knowledge base while getting another degree. The next step is to play stupid when people question why you want get a "doctorate" degree and then feign disbelief and disgust when there is controversy over calling yourself a "doctor" to patients. There are many reasons that this issue needs to be dealt with right away (control, patient confusion, etc.). A long time ago the whole NP concept was conceived of in order to create more collaboration. Now it has turned competitive by the NPs, no less, who state they are EQUAL to or even better than doctors (studies done are with disease issues of no complexity). Please read the article in the NYT and then remember the line at the end from Dr. Kathleen Potempa, dean of the University of Michigan School of Nursing and the president of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, who says:
“Nurses are very proud of the fact that they’re nurses, and if nurses had wanted to be doctors, they would have gone to medical school.”
“Nurses are very proud of the fact that they’re nurses, and if nurses had wanted to be doctors, they would have gone to medical school.”
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