The top story in the Dec. 8 issue of American Medical News is about the crisis in primary care.
There's no mention of physician assistants.
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Interesting indeed. PAs and NPs can do EVERYTHING a MD or DO can do in primary care. Docs should not even be practicing in the primary clinical setting. Hospitialists and specialty areas are where we physicians and DOs should practice.%0d%0a%0d%0aMidlevels can have phone access to MD and speciality supervision and consult. Midlevels can also take first call, relieving physicians from tedious work so they can practice in-patient medicine and take triaged calls.%0d%0aLaurie