What in what I suggested suggests that the quality of physicians would be materially watered-down.
It will be your word against mine but I assert that there are plenty of people fully capable of becoming competent physicians getting turned away from medical school each year.
They are turned away because the schools only have N slots per year and the turned-away applicants are not amongst the best N applicants that year.
It's unclear how far down the applicant pool you could go before you start allowing in the fundamentally incapable, but I have a hard time believing the current matriculating class size is anywhere near that threshold.
I don't disagree the world could clearly use more NPs.
The issue I can foresee though is that medicine is getting ever more complicated and specialized with time; there's an upper limit on what NPs are capable of covering after which point you need physicians.
It will be your word against mine but I assert that there are plenty of people fully capable of becoming competent physicians getting turned away from medical school each year.
They are turned away because the schools only have N slots per year and the turned-away applicants are not amongst the best N applicants that year.
It's unclear how far down the applicant pool you could go before you start allowing in the fundamentally incapable, but I have a hard time believing the current matriculating class size is anywhere near that threshold.
I don't disagree the world could clearly use more NPs.
The issue I can foresee though is that medicine is getting ever more complicated and specialized with time; there's an upper limit on what NPs are capable of covering after which point you need physicians.