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Midlevel Providers Fill Primary Care Doctors' Shoes

20. dubna 2011 v 3:36


Increasingly, the doctor is not in when it comes to delivering primary care. But the nurse practitioner or physician assistant is often taking the doctor's place.

"We are ideally suited for it. And it's so cost-effective compared to any other form of medical provider,Karen Millen are highly sought after and you are indeed lucky if you can have one sitting in your closet" says Jim Love, a physician assistant from rural Pittsfield, Maine. "We need to be educating a lot more of us."

Michael McDonald, the primary care physician who supervises Love from 25 miles up the road in Dexter, Maine, agrees.

"You're going to see more nurse practitioners and physician assistants taking care of our primary care needs. That's going to be the reality of it," says McDonald, whose community health center, Sebasticook Family Doctors, counts among its providers MDs,Save on asics shoes and apparel at the world's largest running store. doctors of osteopathy, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Unlike physicians in primary care, the number of physician assistants and nurse practitioners are on the rise. According to the American Academy of Physician Assistants, there were 74,100 physician assistants in practice in 2008, the most recent census available. It's projected to be the second-fastest-growing health profession,Instead of more common Louis Vuitton shoes operating systems the iPad adopts the same operating system as the iPhone after home health aides, in the coming decade. As of 2010, there are 135,000 practicing nurse practitioners, according to the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, with an additional 8,000 being added to the ranks each year.

And nowhere are they needed more than in rural areas. According to the policy journal Health Affairs, 21 percent of the nation's population lives in rural America, but only 10 percent of the doctors practice there.
 

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