What Influences Advocacy for "Doctor Nurses?"

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Thu, 04/03/2008 - 09:45

We have posted many times on the external forces battering primary care physicians (family physicians, general internists, and general pediatricians) in the US.

Whenever new fervor for cost cutting arises, the tendency seems to be to call them in as the usual suspects. Thus, primary care doctors have seen their reimbursement lag inflation (see our post here and a post from DB's Medical Rants here ), while they are subject to an ever increasing bureaucratic burden aimed...

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