United Kingdom: family doctors versus nurse practitioners-what are the trade-offs?

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Jonathan F Rodnick. Fam Med. 2007 Mar.

. 2007 Mar;39(3):216.

¹ University of California, Department of Family and Community Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. jrodnick@psg.ucsf.edu

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