Following are two articles that ran this week.    The Baltimore Sun published an article on August 9 by Kelly Brewington titled "Nurse practitioners pick up the slack in providing primary care."  It is great that the article included such positive feedback from a patient (Tucker) in which she said that she has already decided to switch her provider from the doctor in the practice to the nurse practitioner.     (Unfortunately - the actual article has the word practitioner misspelled in the title.)    Nurse practitioners pick up the slack in providing primary care Baltimore Sun        The following article ran in CNNMoney.com on August 10.  The writer is Parija Kavilanz.   AANP President Dee Swanson was interviewed for the article.  Health care's big money wasters  (08.10.2009) .   (Parija Kavilanz is the author who wrote the July 18 CNN article titled "Family doctors.  An endangered breed." )