America has led the world in developing the roles of nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

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WorldClinic is even building fully networked emergency rooms so its docs can listen to a stethoscope held by a nurse half-way around the world.

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In India -- where there is one psychiatrist per 500, 000 people and only one psychiatric nurse per 2 million, according to World Health Organization figures -- faith healers are commonplace.

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She joined the U.S. Navy Corps in 1996 as a nurse, and has served at military medical facilities around the world. as a pre-doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, her research is focused on traumatic brain injury.

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President of the Royal Society, Paul Nurse, said that the new investment "will hopefully help ensure that our world-leading scientists have world-leading facilities with which to work".

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Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso finished fourth for Renault, just ahead of Hamilton, who had to nurse home his soft tires on the testing Hungaroring circuit after being forced to run an extended third stint.

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