(02-12-2015 08:54 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(02-12-2015 08:52 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(02-11-2015 09:35 PM)dfarr Wrote:  Do a 12 hour shift in any metro ER and lay eyes on all the Medicaid patients or Medicare patients under the Medicare age limit i.e. the disabled. Count how many of them are truly disabled or truly so poor that they need government assistance. Get out in the real world where the abusers congregate and see with your own eyes what these people wear, drive, or own. Then tell me how the system isn't abused as much as the stats say.

What stats? No one has shown any stats, they've just done exactly like yourself and have thought their personal experiences grant them the expertise to make statements about how abused something is. It doesn't, and neither does yours. Furthermore, by the fact that you think you can simply 'count those who are truly disabled', as in you're diagnosing patients of any long term disability by sight is downright ludicrous. You're acting like a child, and if you're fine with that go on doing it. Just know that you're not making a rational or logically defensible choice based on evidence, you're just an ape who's made because he doesn't know how cognitive bias's work.

And if you're truly a nurse practitioner, I'm pretty bummed about what sort of weak research requirements your degree program requires. Next you'll be prescribing drugs on a 'hunch' and looking at tea leaves for advice on treatment.

Come on man, there is no need to insult the man's degree over something like this.

(02-12-2015 06:35 PM)dfarr Wrote:  I don't recall anyone requesting a thesis or dissertation. Also, NPs and MDs aren't research based degrees, they're knowledge based. No questions about statistics or t-tests, standard deviations, double blind studies were on my boards. But I'm sure you already knew that. However if you want my research paper I did while getting my MSN feel free to PM me your email and I'll send it to you.

When I ask a patient why they're on disability and what doctor they see for their disability and they can't name either, I'm pretty sure they're full of ****. Doesn't take much investigating or research to figure it out.

interesting. we get hammered with stats in pharmacy school to evaluate drug studies. guess I know why now

(02-12-2015 07:49 PM)Tiguar Wrote:  

(02-12-2015 06:35 PM)dfarr Wrote:  I don't recall anyone requesting a thesis or dissertation. Also, NPs and MDs aren't research based degrees, they're knowledge based. No questions about statistics or t-tests, standard deviations, double blind studies were on my boards. But I'm sure you already knew that. However if you want my research paper I did while getting my MSN feel free to PM me your email and I'll send it to you.

When I ask a patient why they're on disability and what doctor they see for their disability and they can't name either, I'm pretty sure they're full of ****. Doesn't take much investigating or research to figure it out.

interesting. we get hammered with stats in pharmacy school to evaluate drug studies. guess I know why now

Yall do waaayyyyyy more math than we do and get more into the kinetics and all that. We order it and consult pharmacy to dose!