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“We hear this all the time from people, ‘My PA or my NP spends more time with me.’ We do not know if that is true or if they are leveraging better communication strategies, such as sitting down while they talk to the patient, or using more patient-friendly language … To be honest, if your provider, whoever that is — doctor, PA, NP — is unwilling to answer that in an uncomplicated way, that might raise a red flag to me.”
Vox.com spoke with Tamara Ritsema, PhD, MPH, about whether patients seen by a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner receive longer visits in the primary care setting. In the article The Nurse Practitioner Will See You Now.
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