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LlewfromHammerfell t1_itcmfvy wrote

If you are a woman you can go to the women’s wellness collaborative on river st. They’re very nice over there. If you’re a man or you just don’t want to go to providence, you can google nurse practitioners for your town and probably find one.

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alexknits t1_itdhdm5 wrote

Seconding the vote for women’s medicine collaborative on River street. They have an Obgyn office in the same building.

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CloudStrife012 t1_itdti98 wrote

Nurse Practitioners notoriously make numerous mistakes. Their education is severely lacking and certainly not enough to adequately serve as a PCP. See a real doctor.

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fierysag t1_itdzqd0 wrote

Highly recommend South County Health on route 2 in East Greenwich. They have a bunch of female family doctors and a great network for other specialists.

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DunWithMyKruger t1_ite3dqn wrote

Replying to CloudStrife012 (#182,414)

OP, I agree with this person. In general, nurse practitioners (NP's) have very little clinical training compared to physicians. Even if an NP worked as a registered nurse prior to becoming an NP, a registered nurse is not trained to do the following: know which labs/tests to order, interpret those tests, make diagnoses, choose the correct medication/treatments. Those are skills that take years and thousands of hours to master. It simply cannot be done in the 500 hours that NPs get during their post-RN schooling. If one does the math (500 hours/40 hours a week) = 12.5 weeks. An NP has a total of 12 weeks (so 3 months) of training in the above skills before seeing patients.

Meanwhile, physicians get minimum 15,000 hours of hands-on training in the above skills before they go out and take care of patients. (That's 15,000 hours/40 hours a week = 375 weeks = 7 years.) OP, your health is one of the most important things. I highly recommend always seeing a physician (MD or DO) only. I think most people would much rather entrust the health of themselves and their loved ones to a person with minimum 7 years of training rather than to a person with only 3 months of training.

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CloudStrife012 t1_ite46us wrote

Replying to C0Ghost (#182,766)

It is, though. The biggest con in the healthcare system right now is NP's being hired en masse and replacing what would otherwise be a physician. NP's do not possess the knowledge to do what their job is asking of them. See r/Noctor

They can use some of the same billing codes as physicians, so hospital systems run by MBA's are increasingly utilizing them to cut costs. Seriously, I am not just saying this. I work with a lot of NP's. Do not trust them with your health.

Some NP schools have 100% acceptance rates, are entirely online, and can be done in 1-2 years. There's nothing but multiple choice tests which allow retakes. They give these students "doctorates" and then they go around in a white coat cosplaying as doctors. They don't even know what they don't know.

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MicellarBaptism t1_itndx5m wrote

Do you have any preference in terms of location? East Bay Community Action Program has female physicians and NPs/PAs at their East Providence and Newport sites and are accepting new patients.

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