The United States has since the 1960s developed a cadre of physician assistants to work in primary care. They mainly work semi-autonomously in association with individual doctors, but an increasing number work in hospitals. They seem to be well accepted by both doctors and patients and can
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D. E Mittman (2002) studied this question.
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