EDITOR,

EDITOR,

EDITOR,

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Patients seeking medical care today are having more frequent exposure to non-physician providers, such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Both of these groups of health care practitioners are professionals licensed to practice medicine under the supervision of a physician.

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EDITOR,

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n Kaden James Thomsen was born at 3:27 a.m. Sept. 2, 2011, to Soquel residents Kassandra Eirene Teegardin and Erik John Thomsen, a San Lorenzo Valley High School graduate. Kaden weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces when he arrived at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz. His paternal grandmother, Carole Hatch, lives in Ben Lomond.