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...just troubled, they play a role that sometimes seems to be a cross between Marcus Welby and Ann Landers. Insisting that "medicine is concerned with disease, nursing with health," they preach the gospel of preventive medicine-or "health promotion," as they call it. Says M. Lucille Kinlein, who runs a thriving practice in Hyattsville, Md.: "We give people an opportunity to think in a different concept, namely to think wellness...
Like many nurses, Lucille Kinlein, 51, considered hospital work restrictive. Frustrated by lack of authority, she felt that a nurse functioned as a mere tool of the physician. Unlike most nurses, she decided to do something about it. In May 1971, she rented an office in suburban College Park, Md., and hung out her shingle as one of the nation's first independent nurse-practitioners...
...Nurse Kinlein's practice is more limited than a doctor's. Because she is not a physician, she will not diagnose major illnesses or prescribe medication; nor does she read X rays or set fractures. But she can still bring the benefits of her training to those who visit her comfortable, informally furnished office, where she treats minor injuries, teaches patients to care for themselves, and helps them to decide when they should see a doctor. "I'm not focusing on disease, but rather on the person and his perspective of his own health," she explains...
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