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NY's nurse practitioners want to fill void

Originally published: March 16, 2013 9:16 PM
Updated: March 16, 2013 9:30 PM
By DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@newsday.com

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Photo credit: Daniel Brennan | Jeanne Martin, a nurse practitioner, speaks with a colleague at a nursing station at Stony Brook University Hospital. (March 14, 2013)

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Nurse practitioners say they can fill the void created by a shortage of primary care physicians, but they first want to ensure that New York legislators lift the state's restrictions on their profession.

Physicians who practice family medicine, pediatrics and internal medicine are in the minority among doctors statewide, data show.

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