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Old 04-30-2013, 11:18 PM   #242
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Well NP do lack liability insurance as a normal GP pays 60k up to 100k for a surgeon a year for malpractice insurance.

In the end, if we had got the NP to be OR nurses, we would have less of a backlog in surgeries.

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Originally Posted by MindBomber View Post
The Government has offered limited support to NPs because Physicians lobby against their introduction to the health care system, arguing they're not capable of providing adequate quality basic care and would therefore place patients at risk. NPs earn 100k/head, I believe; the important point here being that they earn a lot less than a GP to do the same job.
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