You know what scares me in my job as a nurse practitioner? Youd probably think it is a missed diagnosis, a treatment failure, or a drug-drug interaction. Youd probably think malpractice liability and obscure diagnoses with unusual presenting symptoms would keep me up at night. Oh, these things are stressful, certainly, but they dont scare me. What really frightens me is the number of middle-aged, middle-income adults I examine; find an acute or chronic illness in, and who then inform me that they a
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Health care consumers face a severe shortage of primary care providers who can care for people of all ages, but particularly those with multiple chronic conditions . Florida has about 3 million people living in health professional shortage areas. In some Florida counties no physicians will accept Medicaid and the only Medicaid providers are Advanced Practice Registered Nurses.