Article publicizes the use of physician's assistants to address America's shortage of skilled health personnel based upon a meeting held in Durham, NC on Friday 13th, November, 1970 [i.e., the Third Duke Conference]. The article highlights...
NC state code sheet classifying physician or surgeon assistants as class 8, code 9711 of the Insurance Rating Board. Insurance carriers used this code to provide liability insurance coverage to physician assistants or their employing physicians or...
The Ad Hoc Committee report classified physician assistants according to the degree of specialization, level of clinical decision-making (judgment) and length of training. These types "are distinguished primarily by the nature of the service each...
Report on the Model Legislation Project for Physician's Assistants conducted at Duke University, Durham, NC during 1969 and 1970 to develop a legislative proposal under which physician's assistants could be accommodated into the legal framework of...
A 1970 packet of information was sent by the Duke University PA Program to "those interested in the 'regularization' of activities of physician's assistants and like medical personnel within a given state". The packet contained a legislative...
Correspondence between Eugene A. Stead, Jr. and Karl E. Krill, Dean, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI in November and December 1970 describing an objective method of comparing the diagnostic capabilities of non-physicians. Dean Krill...
Bob Howard's letter to Jerry Bredouw congratulating him on "the very fine job you did with the recent episode of 'The Bold Ones' that gave the physician's assistant concept some much-needed publicity." Also, he mentions his gratitude for "getting...
Memo and letter sent to D. Robert Howard at Duke University from Jerry Bredouw to Dick Moores following up on earlier correspondence trying to interest Mr. Moores in having Chipper, a character in Gasoline Alley, become a PA. He elaborates on the...