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  • Title: Practitioners are filling in for scarce physicians.
    Author: Lutz S.
    Journal: Mod Healthc; 1991 May 13; 21(19):24-5, 28-30. PubMed ID: 10110466.
    Abstract:
    Facing a dearth of physicians, rural America is turning to mid-level practitioners. The changing rural healthcare system is relying more on primary care and outpatient services, and mid-level practitioners are viewed as the most economical providers of such care. States, swayed by arguments that rural access to care is decreasing, are loosening licensing restrictions so "mid-levels" can treat where few physicians want to work.
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