Hopkins CEO: Nurse practitioners could reduce need for more docs

Ed Miller, dean of the School of Medicine and CEO for Johns Hopkins Medicine, believes that more doctors are not necessary to handle the influx of patients sure to hit once health reform fully kicks in. Instead, he sees an opportunity to call on many other caregivers--nurse practitioners, physician extenders and technicians, for example--to step up and fill in the gaps, FierceHealthcare's Dan Bowman reports. Click here to read the full article.