EditorialJoanne Haynes, a nurse practitioner at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, meets virtually with a patient from her office in ridge land, Miss. on Sept. 17, 2021.(Imani Khayyam/The New York Times)
EditorialA mural in Moscow shows a martial arts practitioner with a bear emblem flipping a rival wearing the initials of WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency, on Saturday, July 31, 2021. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)
EditorialDion Kaszas, left, a Hungarian, Métis, and Nlaka’pamux tattoo practitioner and scholar, in Bedford, Canada on June 19, 2021. (Paul Atwood/The New York Times)
EditorialEva Fields, a nurse-practitioner who treated one of the first local patients to die from COVID, talks with Dr. Theo Hensley at the Old Oak Taproom in Tusculum, Tenn., April 7, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialNurse practitioner Trulener Walter works with patients in the parking lot at Nissan Stadium in downtown Nashville, Dec. 30, 2020, where Meharry Medical College is conducting COVID-19 drive-thru testing. (William DeShazer/The New York Times)
EditorialNurse practitioner Trulener Walter works with patients in the parking lot at Nissan Stadium in downtown Nashville, Dec. 30, 2020, where Meharry Medical College is conducting COVID-19 drive-thru testing. (William DeShazer/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident-elect Joe Biden speaks to the nurse practitioner who gave him a coronavirus vaccine at ChristianaCare Hospital in Newark, Del., on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident-elect Joe Biden speaks to the nurse practitioner who gave him a coronavirus vaccine at ChristianaCare Hospital in Newark, Del., on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
EditorialMount Sinai hospital president David Reich elbow bumps nurse practitioner Petrona Ennis-Welch who was the first COVID-19 vaccine recipient at the hospital in New York on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 15, 2020. (Kirsten Luce/The New York Times)
EditorialAdvanced registered nurse practitioner Monica Pug administers the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine to Dr. Aharon Sareli, chief of critical care at Memorial Healthcare System, at a pharmacy in Miramar, Fla. on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
EditorialNurse practitioner Jennifer Allen, of Heart to Heart International, checks vitals of a person at Hope Faith Homeless Assistance Campus in Kansas City, Mo. Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2020. (Christopher Smith/The New York Times)
EditorialAnn Hirschman, who in the 1960s became one of the earliest street medics — volunteers who provided first aid for protesters at demonstrations — in Kingston, N.J., June 9, 2020. (Celeste Sloman/The New York Times)
EditorialColleen Irwin, a nurse practitioner at San Francisco General Hospital, set up a food pantry outside her home in the Bernal Heights section of San Francisco, on April 30, 2020. (Cayce Clifford/The New York Times)
EditorialG. Adam Vascellaro, the chief medical officer of a health clinic, with Crystal Marcum, a nurse practitioner, in Shawnee, Okla., Jan. 21, 2020. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)
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