Doctors disappearing from emergency rooms as hospitals look to cut costs https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/021423_er_doctors_disappearing/doctors-disappearing-from-emergency-rooms-as-hospitals-look-cut-costs/
ER doctors are increasingly being replaced by “midlevel practitioners,” who can perform many of the same duties and generate much of the same revenue for less than half the pay - though evidence that suggests dropping doctors from ERs may not be good for patients.
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@TucsonSentinel NPs and PAs are great, but ERs are already chronically understaffed. Cutting out ER doctors is solving something other than the current problem.