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Physician Workforce

PERSPECTIVE

Through A Different Looking Glass

The analysis of Richard Cooper and colleagues regarding the need for more physician specialists is valid on more levels than pure numbers and projected economic and population growth. Perhaps most profound is the increased demand for specialist services that arises from the very medical miracles we have witnessed these past two decades. People are now surviving well into old age; fragile, technology-dependent persons and many with chronic illnesses—such as AIDS or debilitating heart disease or cancer—now live and thrive with careful medical attention. But Cooper and colleagues miss the mark when they discuss how advanced practice nurses (APNs) fit into . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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