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A New Job or a New Profession?

Ralph Crawshaw, MD

JAMA. 1976;235(25):2721-2722.

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LIKE a policeman's, the utilization review coordinator's lot is not a happy one. Since discovering they are the cutting edge between medicine and government concerning the fate of right-here-and-now lying-in-bed patients, most review coordinators have become as sensitive as a sunburned lifeguard in a sauna. Whatever these nurses might have thought they were getting into when they signed on, they have found the job more than advertised. Whether they expected to work at a nine-to-five papershuffling snap or participate on a health team as an agent of constructive change, they have been disappointed. The work has proved to be difficult, vast, and confusingly political. Should they find the time to sit still long enough to consider whether they are in a new job or a new profession, it is unlikely that they would have the spirit left to philosophize. However, there may be relief in an answer to the job-or-profession . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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