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Some of Its Problems and Responsibilities

M. T. Jenkins, MD

JAMA. 1970;211(2):282-285.

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The medical profession has a guiding goal—the welfare of mankind—which it implements through medical education, the application of research findings to man, superb individual patient care, and concern for the health of the entire nation. In accomplishing this goal today, the key word throughout organized medicine, and reiterated by individuals in governmental positions, is manpower.

Certainly manpower is a major problem and a major responsibility for the specialty of anesthesiology. As a foreboding note, the delivery of anesthesia care to the nation is in a singularly vulnerable position for planning by nonanesthesiologists. Since reasonable anesthesia has been provided by specially trained registered nurses in the past, and since they still function efficiently under skillful medical guidance, there are some opinions that we can establish still another category of personnel to conduct anesthesia under supervision. I am not in agreement with these, even under the flossy description of "innovative programs for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Anesthesiology at the 118th annual convention of the American Medical Association, New York, June 14, 1969.

Reprint requests to Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas (Dr. Jenkins).

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