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Doing doctors' work

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Source: Pittsburg Post Gazete


March 12, 2008

You see them everywhere, these two breeds of health care professionals called nurse practitioners and physician assistants. They're in medical clinics, doctor's offices, and hospitals -- even in operating rooms -- and often they're performing duties you m

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    thela: you sure got that right. They have control over PAs.

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    I agree. The only reason NP's don't do more than they do is because doctors block it. They'd rather have PAs over whom they have direct control.

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    They forgot to mention that NPs have their own license where PAs do not. They make it sound that the nursing model is inferioir to the medical model. When will they ever learn?

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