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Re: Gail's drivelFrom: Marilyn Ringstaff (marilyn.ringstaff@OBGYN.net)Sun Feb 17 22:36:03 2008
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >Marilyn,<< Under Georgia law, are you a Medical Practitioner, or a Nurse?>> Both. The Board of Nursing in Georgia governs both APRN’s [includes CNMs]and RN’s, so I suppose I would be classified as both. But apparently so are all nurses under Georgia law. I’d be happy to get an official opinion from the BON, but a quick search brings up a recent Ga. case which says: “. . . a nurse, a medical professional, insisted that Painter take a large amount of medication, despite his protestations and his request to see his doctor. At issue here is a medical judgment made by a nurse acting in her capacity as a nurse. She was not simply effecting a judgment previously made by another, she was exercising an independent medical judgment that required her to evaluate whether Painter's medications were correct”…. 2007 GACA A07A1358 - 112907 [Disclaimer: I’m not an attorney-I have not yet taken the Bar - I am simply responding to your ridiculous statement that “Nurses are not medical professionals”]. <<I don't see why anyone on earth would want to be attended by someone with a 3 year apprenticeship, in place of 6 years of Medical School, 1 year of Internship, a variable number of years clinical practice, then 4 to 6 years of specialization is beyond me. Never mind the experience.>> Well, this list agreed a number of years ago not to go into that argument, but it went something like this . . . the outcomes are better when you don’t have an overqualified provider attending a normal delivery. . .I think the better question would be, why anyone on earth would want to be attending normal births when they have spent 6 years of Medical School, 1 year of Internship, a variable number of years clinical practice, then 4 to 6 years of specialization… << For a JD, your argument is ridiculous>> thanks! I had a professor that used to say, "well run it up the flagpole and see if the Judge will salute it." Marilyn
-- Marilyn Ringstaff, CNM, JD Rome, Georgia
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