Word: doctor
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...Indian Health Service, whose clinics are in remote locations and chronically short staffed. Since 1973, the Phoenix Indian Medical Center has given 65 pharmacists special six-month courses in clinical skills, including how to take a medical history and conduct a physical examination. Working under a doctor's supervision, these "pharmacist practitioners" regularly diagnose and treat skin conditions, burns and abrasions, gastrointestinal upsets and upper-respiratory infections. They monitor therapy on patients with hypertension, tuberculosis and diabetes and also provide prenatal care for pregnant women...
...Clinical pharmacy" is also blooming in California. Since 1977 the state has had a law allowing doctor-supervised nurses, physician assistants and pharmacists to prescribe and monitor drugs in a five-year pilot program. The University of Southern California has trained 29 pharmacist-prescribers who now work in hospitals, nursing homes and mental-health centers. Just last week Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill allowing physician-supervised pharmacists, with training, to adjust and monitor the dosage of a patient's drug therapy in institutional settings...
Some physicians call the clinical pharmacist "another undertrained superspecialist" and voice concern about fragmentation of medical care and potential liability problems. Others see the pharmacist practitioner as simply superfluous. But many doctors who work with pharmacists seem delighted. Says Dr. Alan Steinbach of the Rockridge Clinic in Oakland, Calif.: "They take the pressure off the doctor and make the patient happy...
...Buddy, his doctor and his lawyer--who also happen to be his best friends--set out to find the ideal surrogate mate. And although the advertisements for this film somewhat distastefully portray Burt Reynolds claiming "He wants you to have his baby," Buddy is not about to settle for anyone. The screening process for the mother-to-be provides some of the movie's most humorous moments, including a disgustingly (not sexually) funny scene in a butcher shop with Toni Kalem and an exquisite sequence of events with the striking Lauren Hutton. From the start, however, it is too obvious...
...movie's other characters are fairly inconsequential. Paul Dooley plays Kurt the lawyer in a nothing performance, while Norman Fell, last seen as the least-appealing character of the even less-appealing TV sitcom Three's Company, remains solvent in the role of the doctor. Mike Kellin, however, in the most minor of minor parts, does provide a few laughs. In one of Peters' shining moments, Kellin plays a Manhattan tour captain who's got an ailment for every part of his body and a hospital in New York for every operation. Steinberg's influence is definitely felt here...