The name badge displaying the person's credentials is essential, especially in the hospital, ER and Urgent Care setting.
Patients deserve to know if they are being treated by an MD or a P.A., and patients need to know the MD's specialty training and board certification. On that note, patients should always go to the state licensing board and read the practitioner's license status, disciplinary measures in process or determined, other states the licensee has left, and what specialty training and board certifications the person has and must continue to take coursework and exams in.
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