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The Physician's Assistant

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983
Excerpt To the editor: In view of the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC) report that this country will have a surplus of primary care physicians, Cawley and associates ...
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Physician assistants in Canada

Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 2014
T o analyze the health policies related to physician assistants (PAs) and to understand the factors influencing this medical work force movement. Quality of evidence T his work combines a review of the literature and qualitative information, and it serves as a historical bookmark.
Ian W, Jones, Natalie, St-Pierre
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The physician’s assistant

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1975
A physician's assistant is trained to act in the place of the physician in the diagnostic and therapeutic management of patients. Tasks that can be performed by assistants, legislation related to their responsibilities, the question of physician supervision, educational programs and certification, and factors in employment are matters that are being ...
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Needs for Physicians' Assistants

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1970
To the Editor.— Much recent discussion suggests the need for new categories of health personnel to assist physicians. Before making any decisions regarding training programs for our own medical community, we elected to survey the physicians of the state of Delaware to ascertain their opinions regarding the need for physicians' assistants (PA), their ...
J H, McGrath   +2 more
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Physicians' Assistants: Nurses as Physicians

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1970
To the Editor.— Reference is made to the recent editorial "Physician's Assistant or Assistant Physician?" ( 212 :313, 1970) in which our article ( 211 :476, 1970) was discussed. We are most appreciative of the interestThe Journalhas shown in this program by devoting an editorial to it.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2001
Medical professional codes have long prohibited physician involvement in assisting a patient's suicide. However, despite ethical and legal prohibitions, calls for the liberalization of this ban have grown in recent years. The medical profession should articulate its views on the arguments for and against changes in public policy and decide whether ...
L, Snyder, D P, Sulmasy
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An intelligent assistant for physicians

2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016
This paper presents a software tool developed for assisting physicians during an examination process. The tool consists of a number of modules with the aim to make the examination process not only quicker but also fault proof moving from a simple electronic medical records management system towards an intelligent assistant for the physician.
Dimitris Gavrilis   +3 more
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Gastroenterology Nursing, 2003
There are many issues surrounding the end of life. One of the most controversial is physician-assisted suicide. Because nursing is intimately involved with care of patients at the end of life in a variety of settings, it is incumbent upon nurses to be well informed on this issue.
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Veterans as physician assistants

Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 2015
The physician assistant (PA) profession emerged nearly 50 years ago to leverage the healthcare experience of Vietnam-era military trained medics and corpsmen to fill workforce shortages in medical care. In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Primary Care Training and Enhancement program was established to improve access to primary care ...
Douglas, Brock   +4 more
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