As a family nurse practitioner, I read with interest the recent article in which Julie Appleby and Michele Andrews of the Kaiser Family Foundation discuss the implications of the growing lack of primary care doctors in the U.S. I agree wholeheartedly that an ongoing relationship with a primary care provider is the cornerstone of quality health care.
What brought me up short was the claim that many patients are left to the questionable care of “paraprofessionals” such as myself and my physician assistant colleagues.
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