Betty's Story: A father's plea for NP accountability after the death of his daughter (Part 2)

Seven-year-old Betty died just 15 hours after she was evaluated by a pediatric nurse practitioner at a pediatric urgent care without any physician on site. Betty's father, Jeremy Wattenbarger discusses the efforts he has made to seek accountability and ensure that other children receive physician-led care.

[elverdad]

As an ex-nurse, I can tell you, the data collection of the metrics MUST be done by an independent non-nurse party.

[drbonafide]

Amen to this! The claim that Midlevels’ quality of care is the same or better than that of a Physician is absurd and false!

[lightbringer]

What about 250000 death that are due to medical errors by physicians every year.