Physicians Practice September 29, 2022
Todd Shryock

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants keep taking on more primary care responsibilities, often without supervision of a doctor

Who is in charge of primary care?

Many primary care physicians might say they are. After all, they have spent years building relationships with patients, sometimes treating multiple generations of the same family and learning as much about their private life as their medical history during office visits. Who better to give a diagnosis than someone who knows not only the patient’s ailments but where and how they live, and what nonmedical factors might be affecting their overall health?

But other primary care doctors know this nostalgic view of patient care is heading the way of house calls and the little black...

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