PHYSICIANS HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE USA, REPLACED BY PROVIDERS

American physicians have been emasculated, minimized, and made irrelevant
Finances and privileges due physicians are accruing to providers
Provider is a catch-all for any ikpulity* involved in healthcare

Providers are:
Physicians with long arduous training
Nurses with prescribing privileges
Pharmacists with prescribing privileges
Optometrists with prescribing privileges
Social workers with prescribing privileges
Psychologists with prescribing privileges
Chiropractors with prescribing privileges
Physical therapists with prescribing privileges
Physician assistants with prescribing privileges
Medical technicians with prescribing privileges
Custodial staff with prescribing privileges
Nurses helping doctors
Carpenters—PAs—helping doctors
Welders—PAs—helping doctors
Farmers—PAs—helping doctors
Drug dealers providing medical equipment
Drug companies providing drugs
GED holders providing preauthorization
Conspiracy Theorists providing Covid-19 therapies
Conspiracy Theorists providing immunization information

Insurance companies label all the above ikpulities* as Medical Doctors—Providers
Medical forms have no box for Physicians since everyone is a Provider
Drug companies hire Providers other than Physicians to conduct CME** classes
If a non-physician can educate physicians on medical practice
Why wouldn’t non-physicians not have the same privileges as physicians?

Non-physician providers are replacing physicians in:
Emergency rooms
Hospitals
Operating rooms
Clinics
Nursing Homes

Soon, “experienced” non-physician providers will become “professors”
Teaching would-be doctors in medical schools
Consulting on difficult cases
Giving expert opinion in courts and
Overseeing medical doctors

Now, you know why
America spends 18% of its GDP on health care
And has the worst outcomes in the developed world?
Don’t blame the Physicians for the malaise
Blame the provider phenomenon
A situation created to divert money from health care

Why are there no:
Judge providers?
Law providers?
Engineering providers?
Legislator providers?
Carpenter providers?
Farmer providers?
Flight providers?
Provider providers?

As these Providers run haywire
Physicians are signing useless petitions of protests
Instead of taking concrete steps to
Restore the status quo ante
Imagine this ikpulity happening in the UK—Never.

*Ikpulity defined

Ikpulity

noun
\ ikpulity  \
Definition
:things of the same kind, a generic term used for effect
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
acme, etc, and so on, surprise, nonsense, exclamation, MacGuffin, confine
Examples
//I bought bread, tuna, onions, and other ikpulities to make a tuna sandwich.
It was a tremendous ikpulity—an expression of surprise
What type of Ikpulity is that?—what nonsense is that?
Mind your ikpulity—stay in your lane

Antonyms
nothing, opposite, letdown, wander

First Known Use
1995, in the meaning defined above by Farmer Chukwudi Nwankwo