Not all doctors are great and not all NPs are bad
I don’t like the generalization in this subreddit about all NPs being bad and all doctors being great. I know I’m throwing myself to the wolves here but as a patient with chronic illnesses (Crohn’s disease, several mental health conditions), I’ve received better care from a great NP than from multiple different physicians, who either failed to diagnose me (mainly because they didn’t take the time to listen and dismissed my symptoms) or just didn’t seem knowledgeable about the disease despite being specialists. I am a NP myself now (after being an RN for 10 years) and never pretend to be a doctor, I seek help from my supervising physician and more experienced NPs when I don’t know the answer to something (or even refer patients somewhere else when I feel I can’t help them). I became an NP precisely to try to help people, listen to them, and do my best to give them the care they deserve. I hated that so many doctors( and yes some NPs too) would not take the time to listen, or take me seriously but it angers me that people think all NPs are incompetent, when I’ve been treated by an amazing NP who I’d trust my life with before many other doctors I’ve come across.