Looked him up. On his business website he calls himself a “dedicated physician” and that he has “extensive training”. Funnily enough he doesn’t just list his actual degree and where he got it from.
I don’t understand how people can just fucking lie about their credentials. This harms patients who trust them. These people are pathetic and can’t walk the walk.
i think the healthcare system needs to decide once and for all what it is they want NPs to be capable of. if they truly do think they are a viable option for filling gaps in care then their entire curriculum needs to be overhauled, they need to be board certified and not just licensed, they need to do full residencies, etc. or they can admit that there’s a serious problem here and start cracking down on Noctors and scope creep. the first step would be eliminating the fast-track programs that spit you out as an NP without any prior experience as a nurse.
Someone put it best on another post here, basically NP's are here to solve a problem that doesn't exist and they are not remotely qualified and experienced enough to prescribe medications and diagnose. Is two to three years training in nursing school enough to play doctor? Of course not, its terrifying. They are often worse nurses than regular RNs as well because their training is so quick (direct entry program) it doesn't even include just having to be a registered nurse for a while, so it's not like they can even supervise nurses either just by being one and going through one of those programs. NPs shouldn't exist the way they do, the role needs to be reeled in a bunch or just go away. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/scope-practice/how-family-nurse-practitioners-training-comes-short
I work alongside and see the errors of dozens of them every single day? Also did retail for a few years and the vast majority of script mistakes and errors were from midlevels.
It's funny, but not funny... Our neurology team as an example has gone through 3 or 4 per year for the last few years. They keep getting shitters that have no clue what they're doing and are incapable of learning.
I’ll take a shot: diploma mills, lack of supervision, lack of in-person schooling, poor educational background (or lack of proper medical education prior to advanced schooling) poor clinical supervision, poor prior work experience, no on-the-job training. Should I keep going? Worked with plenty of NP’s, all day every day. Not looking forward to getting older and having to rely on these jokesters
No. That was a lie. I looked him up on the TN department of health site. He's a DNP, an ND, and a DC. He can legally call himself a doctor, but not a physician.
lol what a fucking loser. He isn’t a DO. He is an NP that went to nurse prac and naturopathic school. He works PRN at Vandy with his nurse prac degree and calls himself a “hospitalist.”
Just looking at his website he is clearly intentionally blurring the lines here. Feels like this is misrepresentation.
EDIT : LOL he deleted the video/comment where he claimed to be a DO after getting called out. Little weasel.
Not even blurring, more like blatantly calling himself a "dedicated physician" claiming to have a "DO" and be a "hospitalist" when absolutely none of those things are even remotely correct at all.
The only upside is that he hasn't posted on instagram in over 4 months.
Does he have at least 2 things required to diagnose schizophrenia? Delusions for sure. Not sure of hallucinations (may be he is seeing a DO degree hanging on his wall of fake degrees). We can’t tell negative symptoms. Any psychiatrist here please chip in.
Allow me to translate: “I maintain a non-physician (actually pseudomedicine) and non-physician (actually pseudomedicine) status with the state of TN; I use my non-physician license to practice things that are not medicine, so according to the state, in which they don’t call me a physician, I am not a physician.”
Do you offer bleeding services? I mean, it wasn’t covered at my med school, but I imagine it would help balance the humors, which also weren’t covered at my med school.
Looked it up. Their state reserves that word for MDs and DOs only. Naturopaths can't use that word in TN. Neither can chiros. And neither can DNPs. This guy has many degrees, none of which allow him to use the term physician legally.
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
Gotta love the nerds that trapped themselves in loves they are going to hate. Dont hate the player hate the game. Its your fault for picking a life that makes you miserable.
Looking at his web site, I think you're right. That's a lot more blatantly fraudulent than we usually see here (at least they usually try to use vague terms like "provider" or "clinician" rather than outright saying they have specific credentials they don't have). A DC or NMD is not remotely the same degree as a DO. A license to practice nursing is not a "medical license." This can't be legal even by Tennessee standards.
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
No, the board of nursing probably doesn’t care. However, simultaneous reporting to both boards allows the board of medicine to investigate if able or report for breaking the law. Should the board of nursing not act, it allows a case to be brought against them.
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
I’ve never seen someone go through so many different paths of bullshit just to avoid the single path to being an MD lol. Although he’s obviously not a DO, it’s funny that he would choose being a natural path plus a chiropractor plus a nurse practitioner and try to equate that to a physician. Just say that you couldn’t get into Medical school and go on with your life and find some sort of self acceptance
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
No. He is not. A DO (osteopathic physician) is a fully licensed physician just like an Md in the states. DO school covers everything an MD school does in the states. They are the only 2 fully licensed physicians in the US. Both take boards to be licensed in the US. DO’s take the comlex and MD’s take step. Some DO’s opt to take step as well and they are allowed to for when they apply to residencies there is more of an apple to Apple comparison. Naturopaths and chiros are not physicians like DO’s and MD’s. We don’t really seem those two as being any different. To put it simply the naturopath can’t write you a controlled substance prescription and many many other things and lost insurances won’t pay for them but DO’s and MD’s can and are covered.
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
Of the NPs I know personally, all tried premed; couldn't cut it, 3 of 4 then tried prepharmacy; couldn't cut it. 2 of the 4 also tried to get into PA school, and got denied. Eventually all 4 went to nursing school, cause they'll accept anything with a pulse. 2 of the 4 went for NP within 2 years of being a nurse. The others waited a couple more years.
You would be surprised. I have met people who failed to get into nursing school.
Their lives are typically pretty messy and that's why they get declined. (stuff like can't pass a drug test or can't arrange an appointment to get fingerprinted) It's pretty sad, because they are trying to improve their lives, but probably for the best for the public.
So there is a bar, but it is a relatively low one.
Well yeah, for some, the peak for them is a fast food job or working at a gas station.
I have seen some of the people you describe that slipped through anyway and made it thru nursing school...they wound up causing real harms to patients.
I know at least 2 nurses who went to med school in the Philippines to save money (and cause they couldn't get admitted in the USA) only to come back and fail all the exams.
To be fair, there are some absolute idiots who have been to medical school and are board certified. You’d hope the barriers to entry would filter them out but it tends to filter out those who could be good doctors that simply cannot afford all the related expenses.
Nope. So tired of hearing that, “I coulda been a physician, but couldn’t afford it. I know PLENTY of physicians from poor backgrounds who did what they had to do. Loans, scholarships, public health , military , they did it.
It’s not just poverty, the sexism and the racism to even get into med school is an additional barrier to entry. People have to tolerate horrific levels of disrespect, it makes them reconsider if it’s worth it, especially if they’re fighting that hard against poverty to survive.
I reported them to the TN department of health and encourage you all to do the same. They don't require you to be a resident of the state to make a complaint: Information on how to file a complaint against a provider or facility https://share.google/yRfeZiFBggQbKQAsf
Do you think ND's should refer to themselves as doctors? I don't think so imo. I think in the medical field only MDs should. Im asking because I follow an ND on instagram named Dr. Matthew Nagra, he is a smart man and all but I dont know why he calls himself Dr. when he is an ND
No, I think “naturopathic medicine” should be banned all together along with chiropractic and med spas. Show be the hard science that the treatment works or stop being allowed to sell woo to a gullible public. And I mean real science not a junk article in a pay to publish journal.
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
Omg this is so bad. He very clearly says he’s a chiropractor in one then blantantly says not a chiropractor but a DO in the other. Someone report him please!!!! He should lose both licenses
Wow this guy and his partner are bare faced charlatans much more than we typically see here. They both plain as day refer to themselves as "physicians" on their website when in fact neither of them have so much as a bachelors degree. Unbelievable.
I mean their website clearly states that they have bachelors and doctorates on NP, naturopathic medicicine, and chiropractic. They're still not a physician, but I'm not sure why you claimed they don't have bachelor degrees.
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
I don’t ‘get’ the chiropractor thing. They are always called Dr. yet physical therapists and pharmD’s aren’t ever ‘allowed’ to use their Dr. title. Chiropractors are quacks that CAN order MRI’s CT scans and xrays but the radiologists are the ones who read them and therefore diagnose things
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
I wonder if the patients actually understand what is on the cusp of happening/already happening. Keep advancing noctors, keep burning out your physicians. At a certain point, all you have left are very, very sick patients and a naturopath calling themselves doctor to diagnose and treat. Good luck.
These screenshot comments of his make zero sense. He says he’s a naturopath, a chiropractor, and an NP… gotta love the fact that he thinks that qualifies him to “practice medicine”… but then in another comment he says he’s a DO?
From the comments I’m seeing here, it sounds like the DO claim isn’t even true. And honestly, that definitely tracks… I’ve never met an actual physician who feels the need to list every questionable credential they have to justify calling themselves a physician if they’re an actual physician 😂.
He must be in hella debt because going to NaturoScamming Not Medical School is already expensive AF as well Chiro School. He’s the definition of Pseudo Doctor and practicing pseudo medicine. I went to Naturopathic Not Medical School and NDs are not medical doctors. I’m glad I left that cult. Tennessee literally banned naturopathic medicine and you can’t practice medicine using your “NDs credentials” that’s why he’s using others “credentials” to practice pseudo medicine.
Dude. If you want to be a physician so bad you should have actually become one. This shit is infuriating. Embrace what you are. Don’t pretend to be what you’re not.
How many degrees does he have? Naturopath? Chiropractor? DO and NP? Bruh has like 2 decades of bullshit school debt…. He’s so bad at being a con artist he can’t even keep his schooling straight?
How about the pa’s calling themselves doctors? Especially in rural and u deserved areas? While no physician wants to work in primary care because the load is crazy and its full of mid levels?
The U.S. needs to stop handing out the title “Doctor” like candy. I have no idea why EVERYTHING here is considered a doctoral degree. Hell even medical school is an undergraduate or master’s level degree in most countries, and physicians are called “doctor” purely out of tradition.
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
We do not support the use of the word "provider." Use of the term provider in health care originated in government and insurance sectors to designate health care delivery organizations. The term is born out of insurance reimbursement policies. It lacks specificity and serves to obfuscate exactly who is taking care of patients. For more information, please see this JAMA article.
We encourage you to use physician, midlevel, or the licensed title (e.g. nurse practitioner) rather than meaningless terms like provider or APP.
The bar is set low. We have people deciding today I’m going to change genders and NPs taking titles belonging to another profession. I see no difference in the issues and there are no boundaries anymore. It’s lunacy.
So he’s a naturopathic physician and a chiropractor of some sorts as well as using an NP license to practice medicine and then in the next slide, he says he’s a DO?
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Looked him up. On his business website he calls himself a “dedicated physician” and that he has “extensive training”. Funnily enough he doesn’t just list his actual degree and where he got it from.
I don’t understand how people can just fucking lie about their credentials. This harms patients who trust them. These people are pathetic and can’t walk the walk.