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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

If a primary care patient was going through a difficult time with their social life or mental health, we would walk them down the hall to meet a therapist right then and there. The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. No counseling is offered.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. ” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. How do we train primary care doctors to do geriatrics? We don’t have a geriatrician.