Once again, a debate is reignited about physicians versus nurse practitioners over at A Happy Hospitalist's blog. I'm not getting into a contest of who is smarter than who. I have always acknowledged that a physician's education is longer than that of a nurse practitioner's. My education and training has prepared me for a career in primary health care - a field that I am passionate about, am constantly trying to increase access to and one that I'm good at. Primary care is part of that vision of primary health care. There are many definitions of what "primary health care" is and the one that I use is not made up by me in my fairy tale world - it is the one that the World Health Organization defines as: reducing exclusion and social disparities in health (universal coverage reforms) organizing health services around people's needs and expectations (service delivery reforms) integrating health into all sectors (public policy reforms) pursuing collaborati...
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