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What's the medical equivalent of a paralegal? A good nurse?
by pmiller2 10y ago
What's the medical equivalent of a paralegal? A good nurse?
- Herodotus38 10y agoThey are called scribes (or medical scribes if you want to google it and not get hits about ancient Sumer). It is a relatively new position, largely populated by people considering and applying for medical school.
- ars 10y agoNurse practitioner. A tremendous amount of stuff that normally only doctors do can be done by a nurse practitioner, and since it's much easier to train them, (because they don't need as much schooling) there are far more of them. Basically give them the "easy" stuff and reserve the harder stuff for the Dr. Or have a Dr. consulting for a team of nurse practitioners and they go to him with questions and summary.