Name: I Worked In the ER For Over a Decade. Why Can't I Help Save Coronavirus Patients? | NYT Opinion
Uploaded: 2020-04-13T16:17:59.000Z
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I've personally intubated well over 150 patients

However an outdated law in the state of Florida

that I need to have a supervisory relationship

with a physician and that I can only do those things

that physician delegates to me within the scope

Now that I work in cardiology I'm limited to the things

Even though I have many years of experience working

if I were to have a child come in and fell and injured

And now with coronavirus rapidly spreading

I can't use my experience from the emergency room,

because I'm currently working in cardiology, to go to where

We need all the help and health care professionals

I am ready to serve patients. Put us to work.

I've heard the argument that P.A.s should not

be unsupervised, that an unsupervised P.A. is going

that they're going to replace doctors, that they're

the P.A. training gives us the unique ability

to be able to help out in this sort of health care

and the needs are constantly changing within the health

This is not a problem that's unique to the state of Florida.

Washington State, Minnesota, Georgia, in the great state of Texas.

39 out of 50 states have overly restrictive

supervision laws in place preventing P.A.s

from practicing what we've been trained to do.

If states would authorize an executive order,

this would allow a significant workforce to treat people

To their credit, several states have done this already.

The governors of New York, Maine and Tennessee

issued executive orders lifting restrictions on P.A.s

and are heavily recruiting them to hospitals.

I've been contacted by the New York health department

I live in Florida and I want to serve my state.

You were late in issuing a stay-at-home order.

There's nothing we can do to change that.

What we can change is our response and tools

It is time now to issue an executive order to eliminate

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