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Readers respond to the British Medical Association’s warning that the increasing use of ‘non-doctors’ in medical roles is unsafeI am an advanced clinical practitioner in acute respiratory medicine, and the British Medical Association’s (BMA) characterisation of practitioners like me as unsafe “substitute doctors” demands a response (Safety fears as UK hospitals use nurses to cover for doctors due to shortage of medics, 25 April).Every shift, I assess and manage patients with severe chronic obstr

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