For years many people went into medicine because they wanted to be independent practitioners.

This section also establishes the standards for independent practitioners to follow when dealing with financial arrangements.

Who seeks to support and encourage midwives in their struggle for recognition as independent practitioners?

Health care is delivered by a mostly private system of independent medical practitioners and hospitals.

You can go up the corporate ladder, open an independent practitioner's office, study for a new specialty.

To be an independent practitioner," he says, "was never a goal.

For the independent practitioner, the pressures are just as real.

Still, a weak economy doesn't necessarily spell disaster for independent practitioners.

Some 90 percent of doctors in the city have formed independent practitioners' associations.

There are four major independent practitioners' associations in Syracuse, with sizes ranging from 350 to 850 members.