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While also giving Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants more responsibilities while paying them far less than an MD. Just the same as attorneys are expensive, so you just give everything that lawyers used to do to paralegals and pay them 1/4 as much.

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Ama also keeps supply of doctors down too. That's why all these medschools have such low acceptance rates.

If you are an Indian and have a 3.8 gpa you still might not get into medschools which is pretty absurd.

Note that the term "Medical Assistants" in the US generally refers to the folks who are able to take vitals and minimal-complexity care. They're not given anywhere near the responsibility of an RN let alone an NP.

Yeah I was actually thinking of Physician Assistant

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