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Increasing Use of Nurse Practitioners
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 19th May 2026A recent article in the Wall Street Journal focuses on the increasing use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) in filling patient care gaps in our medical system. There are now 461,000 NP active, an increase in 61% since 2019. They function in much the same way as do family practitioners; the same…
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