I'm not comfortable with someone fresh out of medical school.NPs do not go to medical school. They are knowledgeable and can treat common illnesses, but they are not medical doctors.Are you located in the US? Do you not have insurance?
I chose his CRNP because I was having chest pains and I already knew that I was hypertensive. I'm an advanced EMT and although my scope is nowhere near a CRNP, I can still diagnose myself for what is critical and what is not.This woman is under half of my age. I'm not comfortable with someone fresh out of medical school. She told me that I had to go to the ER. I paid $140 for an office visit for her to tell me that I had to go to the ER, after taking my blood pressure. I already knew that I was hypertensive and they told me over the phone to come in to get some kind of high blood pressure medicine.I told her that and she told me that I needed an EKG and a CBC workup. She told me they could do that at on-site, but without insurance, it would run me around $1,400... and it had to be paid, NOW. Words fail me here. All of this could have been told to me on the phone.I told her that I couldn't afford that out of pocket. She told me that I was going to be sent home... without any medicine. I said, "Let's review here... It's such an emergency that I have to go to the ER or pay for tests now, but you can send me home without medicince???" Unbelievable. I left, had to pay my $140, and went home with no medicine. I got home, at square one again, and was $140 poorer.The social worker called me later that day and she was also an EMT. I told her what I just typed. She emailed the doctor and a few hours later, I was prescribed some amlodipine that could be picked up immediately at my pharmacy.I received better care from a social worker that I paid nothing, than from a CRNP that I had to pay for... amazing. The CRNP obviously didn't even go to the doctor for consult.