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- A paper written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1969 indicating that the planners of the Duke PA program had intentionally "avoided a detailed job description because we have proceeded with the program without any provision for licensing the physician's assistant." He defends the Duke position making the statement that "selling assistants to doctors had many of the aspects of selling bathtubs in a country which never had plumbing. What do you do with bathtubs? Similarly, what do you do with assistants?" Dr. Stead says that the founders did not want a rigid job description but to produce a "capable and flexible assistant who could work with doctors" and based on this growing relationship a job description could be written later. He suggest that it would be better to license the schools (accreditation) than the graduates of such schools. "In this frame of reference, the PA has no ceiling on his activities except that they be performed under the supervision of a doctor."
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