There really are some amazing nurses and nurse practitioners out there. I am unhealthy and I have at least 1 medical appointment per week. I am literally indifferent to having a nurse practitioner or a medical doctor as my care provider.
Anyways, my endocrinologist is a nurse practitioner with a masters degree. I have a very rare autoimmune neurological disease, that affects my peripheral nervous system, that was initially blamed on type 1 diabetes complications.
In fact, its onset was so insidious that it looked just like "diabetes complications." My endocrinologist (you know, the nurse practitioner with a masters degree) sent my blood to the only lab in the US that tests for the disease I have...and it came back positive.
The rest is really history, and now I am getting proper treatment for it.
Anyways, my endocrinologist is a nurse practitioner with a masters degree. I have a very rare autoimmune neurological disease, that affects my peripheral nervous system, that was initially blamed on type 1 diabetes complications.
In fact, its onset was so insidious that it looked just like "diabetes complications." My endocrinologist (you know, the nurse practitioner with a masters degree) sent my blood to the only lab in the US that tests for the disease I have...and it came back positive.
The rest is really history, and now I am getting proper treatment for it.