“I saw a nurse – Where’s the doctor?”

You went to see the doctor and then realized that you talked to the nurse practitioner who ordered some tests — but you never saw the doctor! What’s going on? In some states, a nurse practitioner (NP) has the same prescribing authority as the doctor, and may even act as a patient’s primary care “doctor” [...]
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