’Collaborating physician’ voices support for NPs

“I am a ‘collaborating physician,’ and I support the effort to remove the requirement for a collaborative agreement for nurse practitioners to practice in New York,” wrote Devin Coppola, MD, in a letter to the editor that appeared online last week on the Syracuse Post-Standard website. “Ours is the only medical practice in our community and without nurse practitioners, it would not be able to exist. Our practice is a glaring example of how NPs are a critically important part of the delivery of healthcare, especially in the face of a shortage of primary care providers, which is only going to worsen over time,” Coppola wrote.

Source: Syracuse Post-Standard