Word: nonphysician
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...described can be fixed with sufficient professional and support staff. But even as hospital profits are at all-time highs, staff numbers are being cut. Why don't hospital administrators hire enough staff to provide patients with better, safer care? Money is the answer. Maintaining or increasing current nonphysician staff levels cuts into the bottom line, reducing profits for both the hospitals and doctors. When doctors whine about substandard patient care, they're refusing to recognize that hospitals are understaffed. GEORGE M. DAVIS Fuquay-Varina...
...when the House failed to override Bush's veto of the legislation, which the White House opposed as antibusiness. On Friday the House left Bush's abortion "gag rule" in place, again failing to muster the necessary two-thirds vote to overturn the legislation, which bars abortion counseling by nonphysician workers in federally funded family-planning clinics. The vote came the day after the Administration's curb on such funding took effect. Bush's Saturday veto of a bill reregulating cable TV just might be overridden; it was first passed by a more than 2-to-1 vote in both...
...objections of physicians do not center on money alone. As Dr. Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, explains: "The risk'of [using] nurse practitioners or any other kind of nonphysician is that they do not have a broad and deep enough training to be aware of what they don't know. Nurses and doctors ought to work together as a team, but I am concerned about the idea of a team without a team captain." For the patient, says Relman, the important issue is always "am I getting the best possible care...
...Miss Marion Sheahan, R.N. (the first nonphysician to win a Lasker Award), executive director of the National Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Services...
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