I was reading a article from the Star Tribune and it was about how in small towns they dont have very many doctors or even  none. In Waseca in the emergency room there are no physicians for the ER in this small town, so they have hired "midlevels" which are nurse practitioners and physician assistants. They do all sorts of things like cut fingers to heart attacks. I thought this article was really interesting because i didn't know that people a step lower than nurses did all the same work that doctors can do.