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What's the difference between a Nurse Practitioner and a Doctor?

I am going to this clinic to try to treat my infertility issue. They deal with infertitlity also.


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  1. Pippin says:

    A doctor is a doctor — she has an MD. (4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, 2-5 years of residency, depending on the specialty.)

    A Nurse Practioner is a nurse — she has a master’s degree. (4 years of college and 2-3 years of grad school.)

    Nurse practitioners can do most of what doctors do — but they don’t perform surgery. (My regular gyn is a NP — she does my annual exams, prescribes medication, counsels me about my health, etc. When I’ve needed surgery, she has referred me to one of the MDs in the practice.)

  2. Doodlestuff says:

    I wouldn’t waste my money going to a nurse practitioner to treat infertility. 90% of the time, you will just end up having to see the doctor anyway. However, if this is a common practice at this clinic to do the preliminaries, then really, no way around it. S/he will probably do the basic history and order common tests to rule out some stuff and then you will be sent to the doctor.

    I used to see a Nurse Practitioner for a lot of things, but my situation is beyond her scope. I got tired of paying twice, once for the NP and then the doctor because she couldn’t do what was needed.

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