Monday, February 22, 1971
University Daily Kansan
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Peekaboo!
ansan Photo by GREG SORBER
'Barton Dale, son of Sandy Dale, Ozawkle, Kansas, waits obediently
outside the Oread Book Sorre in the Kansas Union for his mother to finish her shopping. A child's life would certainly be a lot more fun if he didn't have to wait around for grown-ups all the time! Meanwhile, there are always pass-by to play games with.
Med Program Criticized
By ANN CONNER Kansan Staff Writer
Legislation for an assistant for physicians program," recently criticized in a house committee in Topeka, proposed a type of benefit only after careful study and planning, Jack D. Walker, associate dean of the University Medical Center, said last week.
"The idea has some merit and it ought to be carefully explored. It is not a new idea." Walker said.
Uhl explained that the coach's concern was to serve as a middleman between the physician and the patient had given this country for several decades.
"THIS HAS been going on in this country for 50 to 75 years. The country has an assistant but he country has an assistant and he calls him the assistant) something."
Registered nurses, girl Fridays, public health nurses, secretaries and receptionists who work from a physician often handle
"Every physician has an assistant but he calls him something else."
routine medical tasks under the doctor's supervision.
The physician's assistant provides preventive attention because doctors are no longer able to adequately handle the public's increasing health needs.
"We are now facing a health care delivery crisis. There are not enough physicians and there are too many demands from people for these services," he said.
DURING THE past four or five years, he said, concerned persons had been analyzing the problem. Much of a physician's time had been spent with rather simple problems such as in-grown toenails and intubationational problems. Also he has had no unrangle tars of red tape.
The purpose of the physician's assistant program, Walker said, was to delegate these routine matters to someone else, leaving
the physician free to treat the serious problems for which he was trained.
In recent years, the concept of a physician's assistant has gained popularity. However, Walker cautioned its proponents accepting the idea as a curcullah for the nation's health crisis.
"People got excited about this," he said. "They thought they could use registered nurses and medical corpsmen and just them junior doctors. They thought they could solve everything." So he solved everything.
THE PROBLEMS concern legal questions, education finance and compensation.
An assistant would have at least telephone access to a physician and would work under his supervision. Even so, he could receive special decisions to make, some perhaps without time for consultation.
The malpractice issue has already complicated health care practice so that physicians and nurses are forced to the threat of a attack, Walker said.
ONE QUESTION is who should
should they be educated and where
should they be educated?
is the curriculum. For example,
how much does an assistant need
to work?
Walker suggested that an assistant should know basic physiology, internal medicine, emergency care, obstetrics-gynecology, hygiene, im- nutrition, and preventive medicine.
The assistant's fees are another matter of concern. It is unsettled as to whether or not he was charged for salaried or salaried by the physician.
Currently, the problem nearest at hand is finance. Three bills are
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now before the House Committee on Public Health and Welfare which calls for funds to set up programs in Kansas.
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THE RECENT criticism questioned the validity of providing money for assistance for students who are so training fully qualified
"Problems concern legal questions, education and
finance."
physiologie
dards and exams for the licenses as well as curriculum and where the program would be taught.
"It costs money and you have to make room for it all among the other programs that already lighting for funds," Walker said.
The three bills now before the House are very broad. They provide no specific declaration of cost or duration of the proposed program. However, the bills do designate what Walker considered a key point: the licensing power of the project would be vested in the State Board of the Healing Arts, the osteopaths, and chiropractors.
physicians.
ACCORDING TO the proposed legislation, this board would have the authority to establish stan-
Walker agreed that the licensing power should be vested in the board but he questioned the need to determine educational procedures.
It's doubtful that this board should handle curriculum and test. This should be done by the institute or be doing the teaching. The thing that should be done right now is to ensure as much training as a safeguard," he said.
Because, in his opinion, <u>the bills now in committee are too broad and too vague to be effective for any purpose except licensing.</u> Walker said the proposed legislation concerning finance and legal questions should be tabled for further study.
"I would support the licensing for action this year," Walker said. "We want to bill out all bill ought to be tabled for further study until next year. They should pull together people that know what is happening in this area to study this business."
Walker said neither the public nor the professionals agreed on his proposal. The assistant program. No one chose all the answers to the problems. The major point of agreement is that the assistance system to protect the public.
Couter Voice of Labor
New Regent Starts Term
By KATHY DONNELLY
and JOYCE NEERMAN Kansan Staff Writers
union representative to the Boar-
d of Regents. He said the governor
about the need for diversification
on the board and the fact that
he was a member of the Board.
Carl L. Courter got his first boxer beat in Kentucky. Kansas Board of Regents. The appointed regent from Wichita attended the board's monthly meeting.
and
Courter, a native of southern Illinois, was reared near coal fields, where he received his "inducement into unionism." Wichita the past 17 years and the president of the state's AFL-CIO
In an interview after the meeting, Counter talked about Governor Docking's selection of a
"We are asked to assume a real deal of the bill," said court reporter Nicole Snyder, whose he represents. "We would feel much better about paying the bill if we could think that support with us could represent us."
COURTER ADDED that many union members believed that not having labor on the board "was the taxation without representation."
Courter said time commitments were a consideration in
accepting the nomination.
Besides meeting with the other regents once a month, Courtier will meet with two committees he was appointed to, the Building Board and also the State Colleges Coordination Committee.
"I can appreciate the sacrifice the board members have made. I am prepared to make the same sacrifice." Courter said.
The latter committee meets in accordance with the student body president's requests from the six staterate colleges' collection problems and difficulties at the university.
COMMENTING ON the coordinating board, Courter said, "I don't think you can have
Speculating about the future, Miss McKown said they hope to develop a Central placement
Counter said labor should take a rightful place on governing boards.
government by consensus, I think there is room for constructive criticism."
Societies Name Members
COURTER SAID that he believed persons had a right to object as long as it didn't infringe on others.
In response to an accusation concerning last spring's trouble at the University of Kansas, Counter said, "I did not at any time challenge Larry Chalmer. I admired of him. I don't want him he's done, but on the whole I think he's done an excellent job."
Four University of Kansas honor societies are in the process of selecting new members, accolades to be presented, Sachem, the senior men's honoraria, for women Owl College, for women junior men's honorary, and Cwens, for sophomore women junior men's honorary, and work with their membership drive.
They are working in connection with the Dean of Education's library similar to the School of Education's placement and employment services for later major tests for placement and scholarship programs. These services are available to anyone interested.
At a meeting on Feb. 9, Sachem organization elected eleven new members. Les Lampte, Goodland and O'Hara joined the fraternal organization, said the members were chosen from members are second semester seniors.
The Mortar Board society, said Kate Johnson, a senior director and manager of the project was in the process of completing their main project which is job training.
The new members are James Banks, Penokee; Jack Collins, Roeland Park; Guy Darlan, Central Africa; David Grippie, Durham; Daniel Braun, Prairie Village; Gregory Meredith, Fairway; Norman Mueller, Marion; John Neibling, Wiathaura; Robert Pleah, Allan Shumaker, Wetmore; and Tim Williams, Hong Kong.
office for Liberal Arts undergraduates.
office. Applications will be sent to the fraternities and the residence hall presidents.
Mortar Board members.
Work at the new chapter,
new member, Saturday.
The results are to be announced on Honor's night. April
Counter is a Democrat and will serve a four year term on the Kansas Board of Regents. His role will be needed for Senate confirmation soon.
Applications are available to all sophomore men.
The Owl Society, an honorary society for juniors, has started on next year's membership drive. Mark Yates, Winneta, III, senior pastor at St. John's Church, said that applications would soon be available in the Dean of Men's
The CWEN Society is now in the process of changing the organizational format and structure.
Bvk Klauer, Dubuque, Iowa
junior and president of the
school. You'll be needed to
changes were necessary to make (WENS
effective and meaningful to
members).
Dean of Men's Office Offers Draft Advice
The dean of men's office coverage consulting is needed and support the tention by offering an up-to-date information center on the
Routh said there was quite a bit of variety to the job. He said everything was changing so much that it was difficult for students to understand the draft. For one, he said, the lottery was difficult to understand. Routh said changes in the next few months
Routh said the orientation of the office was to help the student with problem and not tell him what to do. He tried he to be uninterested.
Larry Routh is an assistant to the dean of men in charge of the draft. It is Routh's job to keep ahead of information and inform his colleagues.
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Routh said the draft brought full range of problems to the academy. He had no conscience or objective status. He said he was there with the knowledge of the Selective system when a person needed it.
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