Healthcare professions - Topics

How healers became a licensed profession with a gatekeeping exam Nurse anesthetists fought for decades to be recognized as independent practitioners Why do US medical graduates have to match into a residency before they can legally practice What does a perfusionist do while a heart is stopped during open heart surgery Is it appropriate for a doctor to treat a family member? Semi-professions: why nursing and teaching never got the same autonomy Doctors are notoriously bad at policing their own peers What happens to a physician license after one malpractice settlement Respiratory therapists were the ones bagging patients through the worst of the pandemic Phlebotomists get judged on their first-stick success rate Nurse practitioner vs physician assistant: who can prescribe and who still has to call the doctor State licensure boards bind doctors far more tightly than the Hippocratic Oath does What a radiologic technologist actually does all day beyond pressing the scan button Massage therapists in the US need a state license and hundreds of training hours Why mandatory reporting rules differ so much between professions Pharmacy technicians do the counting and the pharmacist takes the liability When a nurse practitioner and a physician disagree about scope of practice Hospitalist vs primary care: two very different working days for the same medical degree A scribe in a multidisciplinary meeting changes who gets to speak Should physician-assisted death be a professional practice standard or a personal conscience call Why do international medical graduates face a different licensure path than domestic ones Dentists run a small business and a clinical practice at the same time Military doctors owe the government years of service in exchange for medical school Continuing medical education is mostly a compliance box people click through online Nursing has a clinical ladder while medicine has a residency pipeline that rewards endurance over skill Pharmacy is drifting from a dispensing profession into a counseling one