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The task force created to draft recommendations for regulating the relationship between doctors and nurse practitioners brainstormed a few suggestions Thursday in a meeting that made more progress ...

New doctors and other health professionals have joined Tri-City area clinics this winter. They include a Tri-Cities foot surgeon, a doctor and nurse practitioner at a Richland dermatology clinic, a ...

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As a nurse practitioner, Martha Drohobyczer performs a screening test for cervical cancer on a woman in a treatment room, another of her patients, Louisa Piccoli, waits to see her about hormonal ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Nurse practitioner Bob Hobbs once came within days of closing his doors to patients because a doctor who gave him permission to write scripts was leaving the state and he couldn't ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. A new report from healthcare staffing company AMN Healthcare shows – ...

Elizabeth Hug had a choice: wait months to see a doctor to treat her fibromyalgia or visit a nurse practitioner in the same office immediately. The Joliet resident decided sooner was better than later ...

Rhian Parker receives funding from the Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Capital Territory Health, the Australian Medicare Local Alliance. We started the week with a new proposal by the ...