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What the letters after your primary care provider's name mean
Original: DO, MD, NP, PA: Learn the ABCs of primary care providers
Health system MultiCare has published an explainer distinguishing the main types of primary care providers: MDs and DOs, who are fully licensed physicians with different training paths, and NPs and PAs, advanced practice clinicians who diagnose and treat patients, often under varying levels of physician oversight. The guide aims to help patients understand credentials and choose care.
Why now: Patients increasingly face a choice of provider types amid primary care shortages, making credential differences a common source of confusion.
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- DO, MD, NP, PA: Learn the ABCs of primary care providers · www.multicare.org
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