retired doc on how physician assistants are not dumb enough to go into primary care:
Maybe “mid levels” will be replaced by something like PA assistants (PAAs) or NPAs ( nurse practitioner assistants). The third party payer spin doctors will need a better name than “lower levels” to refer to them, however.



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