American Osteopathic Association leaders discuss the profession’s record growth, its training pipeline and the pressures facing practicing physicians.
|Videos|October 20, 2021
Are health care organizations using the physician shortage as an excuse to install non physician practitioners in roles that a doctor should be leading?
Author(s)Todd Shryock, Logan Lutton
Patients often don’t understand the different levels of training required by practitioners, so organizations often push non-physicians into more roles.
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