From 1987 to 1997, the proportion of patients in the US who were treated by nonphysician clinicians increased. Despite this increase, patient visits to traditional physicians did not decrease during this time period, according to new study findings.
Thus, physicians’ fears that the increasingly greater scope of practice given to nonphysician clinicians would result in a reduced need for traditional medical care, did not appear to become reality, lead author Dr. Benjamin G. Druss, from Emory University in Atlanta, told Reuters Health.
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