Prof. LaTonya Trotter publishes book More Than Medicine
Nurse practitioners are often thought of as stopgaps to mitigate the shortage of primary care physicians, but in a new book, LaTonya Trotter, assistant professor of sociology, shows that they do much more than simply extend limited health care resources. In fact, she said, their role may reveal a fundamental misallocation of them.
In More than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State, Trotter observed the work of a group of nurse practitioners at a clinic that served 400 elderly African American patients with complex health problems and limited financial resources. MORE here…