Word: nonphysician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...objections of physicians do not center on money alone. As Dr. Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, explains: "The risk'of [using] nurse practitioners or any other kind of nonphysician is that they do not have a broad and deep enough training to be aware of what they don't know. Nurses and doctors ought to work together as a team, but I am concerned about the idea of a team without a team captain." For the patient, says Relman, the important issue is always "am I getting the best possible care...
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