>One of my weird hobbyhorses is how dumb the name "nurse practitioner" is; they should just call them "associate physicians". Well, there are "physician assist

>One of my weird hobbyhorses is how dumb the name "nurse practitioner" is; they should just call them "associate physicians". Well, there are "physician assistants", PAs, which are the same rung of the ladder as NP but via different path. Areas tend to somehow converge either on NPs or PAs, but not both so often.