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Insurance Rating Board - Lippe and Howard Correspondence - Correspondence: Lippe to Howard

Description/Abstract:	James L Lippe of the Insurance Rating Board response to D. Robert Howard, PA program director at Duke University stating that a meeting of their Professional Liability Committee was forthcoming and that Dr. Howard's request to establish a...
Date:	July 31, 1969

Physician's Associate Program, Duke University School of Medicine - Pamphlet

Description/Abstract:	1971 informational pamphlet distributed by Duke University PA Program to potential candidates for admissions. The pamphlet provides brief history of program, efforts to define PA professional role, the curriculum, professional mobility, admission...
Date:	1971

AMA Council on Health Manpower Answers to Specific Questions on Utilization of "Physician's Assistants"

Description/Abstract:	A monograph (white paper) released by the AMA Council on Health Manpower answering questions about the utilization of physician assistants. The paper describes the AMA's support of the development of education standards and national certification...
Date:	July 14, 1971

Professional Liability Insurance for Graduate Physician's Assistants - Correspondence: Howard to Lewis

Description/Abstract:	Memorandum from D. Robert Howard, director, to David E. Lewis, associate director of the Duke University PA Program providing information about the newly established Insurance Rating Board Code 9711 allowing PAs and surgeon assistants to purchase...
Date:	January 11, 1971

North Carolina State Code 32: Physicians, Surgeons and Dentist Professional Insurance Rates

Description/Abstract:	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...
Date:	June 26, 1970

Tentative schedule for Advisory Council Meeting [Duke PA Program, September, 1970] - Correspondence: Howard to Advisory Council

Description/Abstract:	This memorandum was sent July 31, 1970 to members of the Duke PA Program Advisory Council by Dr. Howard, proposing a tentative agenda for the September meeting. The issues or topics to be discussed included a report on the legal study and proposed...
Date:	July 31, 1970

The Utilization of physician's assistants in geographically remote areas

Description/Abstract:	Paper presented on June 17, 1972 by John R. Ball, MD, JD, director of legal affairs, Duke University Physician's Associate Program, at the American Medical Association Symposium on Distribution of Health Manpower, San Francisco. The paper...
Date:	June 17, 1972

Correspondence from Martha Ballenger to James Lippe requesting a list of companies that underwrite PA insurance coverage - Correspondence: Ballenger to Lippe

Description/Abstract:	Correspondence from Martha Ballenger, legal assistant attached to Duke University PA Program, asking Mr. Lippe for list of insurance companies that are members of the Board so that she could contact them regarding demand for PA liability coverage,...
Date:	February 2, 1971

Results of Correspondence on Professional Liability Coverage for the University-Trained Physician's Assistant

Description/Abstract:	Summary report of a survey of insurance liability carriers to determine guidelines that they had established for providing coverage for PAs and their employing physicians or institutions. A brief history of attempts to gain liability is provided....
Date:	July 1, 1971

A Resume of Proceedings of the Conference on Legal Status of Physician's Assistants

Description/Abstract:	These are the proceedings of a two-day conference [Second Duke Conference] held on October 26, 1969. Held at the Hilton Inn in Durham, the conference focused upon the legal status of physician's assistants. At the outset of the conference, five...
Date:	October 26, 1969