LaTonya Trotter

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by Liz Entman Jun. 10, 2020, 10:19 AM LaTonya Trotter (Vanderbilt) Nurse practitioners are often thought of as stopgaps to mitigate the shortage of primary care physicians, but in a new book, LaTonya Trotter, assistant professor of sociology, shows that they do much more than simply extend limited health care resources. In fact, she said, their role may reveal a fundamental misallocation of them.