You have no foundation for that statement. I know very well what it is as do the people I consider my colleagues, PAs who completed a rigorous training and not only that yearned and actively sought medical knowledge at every step.
And yes I knew it by both brand and generic.
You can’t pigeon hole my knowledge by your mixed experience with NP and PA alike. Just like I can’t know your knowledge based on the physicians I have worked with.
Continues to be confrontational and defensive because of the "I'm not the screwup, everyone else is" mentality. "I'm part of the <1% who knows what is phentolamine."
No one is personally attacking you.
Everyone is attacking a system that allows for inappropriate independent practice granted by legislation, lax educational standards and a lack of accountability.
Your comment on not judging an entire profession's average base of knowledge is hilarious. That's like saying I should be ok with a paralegal or a dental hygienist doing my legal work or dental work because how am I to judge their knowledge base against a lawyer or dentist? How about a teaching assistant? Architectural assistant?
This feeds into the whole new worldview of political correctness, not offending anyone's life story or learned experiences, etc.
You betcha when I go to the dentist I let the hygienist do their work, within their scope of practice, and have the dentist take over. When I went to college, I had TAs (who were mostly PhD students or PhDs already) and went to their sessions. But ultimately, my professor directed the coursework, wrote all the tests and gave us grades.
The average board certified, specialized physician has a greater knowledge base, has had more rigorous training and also continues to "yearn and actively seek medical knowledge at every step" (i.e. CME) than the average physician assistant or nurse practitioner practicing "healthcare."
The only reason PAs and NPs are allowed to get away with not having a similar structure as dentists, lawyers and teachers is because physicians have a weak lobbying group, PAs/NPs have a strong lobbying group and the corporate takeover of medicine has allowed this nonsense to proliferate. Dentists and lawyers have fought against practice creep from those who say "I've watched them do dental/legal work, I can do it just as well as them and get paid as much too with half the education!"
Hilarious that many of those in Congress are lawyers and don't see the irony with healthcare scope creep after actively fighting against paralegals working as lawyers.