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To the Editor: I am writing in response to the Sounding Board article by Mundinger on advanced-practice nursing (Jan. 20 issue)¹. As a family practitioner and the director of a family-practice residency program, I am very much aware of the skills that a good family physician needs. I was truly insulted by the negative tone of the article. I was particularly offended by the statement that primary care holds relatively little allure for physicians because specialists have more manageable and intellectually more interesting practices. These words could have been written only by someone who has never truly provided primary . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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