Physician Assistants and NPs in Primary Care
The Naples (Fla.) Daily News has a long article on physician assistants and nurse practitioners in primary care. It's part of a series on the shortage of primary care physicians.
Government surveys count more than 140,000 advanced practice nurses and 70,000 physician assistants providing clinical care -- compared to just over 300,000 primary care doctors.
“That ratio is skewing more toward PAs (physician assistants) each year since the PA workforce is increasing faster than that of physicians,’’ said Perri Morgan, director of physician assistant research at the Duke University Medical Center. “PAs will be playing a bigger role in the future in primary care and in medical and surgical specialties as well.”
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