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Judy! You are so fortunate to have such a wonderful nurse practitioner. I don't know if I wrote that it was a nurse practitioner that solved Gary's horrible GI problem last week. If you remember, his internal medicine doctor wanted to put him in the hospital last week. I said, "Uhhh NO" A nurse practitioner friend of mine said to give him 3 days of antibiotics and do I did and he was cured. UHHHH LOTS less expensive than a hospitalization!!!

I use an NP for my primary care too! I love her. We have an NP program here at my school of nursing so we produce about 35 NPs a year! Gary has 2 nurse practitioners he sees regularly as well as the doctors in those practices and he LOVES the nurses and asks why he has to see the docs too!

Of course they is a gross generalization - not all nurse practitioners are wonderful, there are bad with the good - but for the most part, NPs LISTEN to their patients and that is why the patients do so well. Judy, you have a wonderful partnership with your NP - that is a gift!