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GEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT PROTECTION
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Dedicated to preserving #ThePhysicianChoice for all Georgia patients and ensuring patients always understand who is caring for them

ABOUT US

Filling the GAPs in healthcare through Physician-led, Transparent, Team-Based Care

Georgia Alliance for Patient Protection (GAPP) Foundation is a grassroots organization of physicians and patients who are dedicated to ensuring physician-led, team-based care for all Georgia patients and to advocating for truth and transparency regarding healthcare practitioners.

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WHY WE'RE HERE

Because Georgia patients deserve physician-led, team-based care in a transparent environment.

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EDUCATION

Helping Everyone Understand our Why

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ADVOCACY

The Future Looks Bright When

#ThePhysicianChoice

is preserved

TRAINING DIFFERENCES

Medicine and Nursing are different.  Education in one does not lead to expertise in the other.  Many NP schools are online and have near-100% acceptance rates.  This should be contrasted against the rigorous, standardized education of a physician.

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COST OF CARE INCREASES WHEN PHYSICIANS ARE NOT ON THE TEAM

Tests and referrals cost patients and insurers more money.  At the same time, these tests and referrals mean bigger profits to hospitals.  Non-physician practitioners order more labs and imaging and make more referrals than physicians.  Seeing an actual physician could save Georgia patients and insurers healthcare dollars.

QUALITY OF CARE DECREASES WHEN PHYSICIANS ARE NOT ON THE TEAM

Veteran's Administration data shows that, compared to physicians, NPs significantly increase resource utilization, but achieve worse patient outcomes.   

RURAL ACCESS DOES NOT CHANGE BY REMOVING PHYSICIANS FROM THE TEAM

Non-physician practitioners (NPPs: NPs and PAs) do not go to rural areas in any greater numbers than physicians. Rural citizens deserve the same level of healthcare as everyone else.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

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