Feldshers and Feldsherism

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A LONG overdue debate is emerging in the United States on the role in health-care services of personnel trained not as physicians but in other professional roles. A few recent examples are analyses of the current or projected role of the nurse,1 , 2 the social worker,3 the midwife,4 , 5 the military eorpsman6 and the "physician's assistant."7 , 8 Highly relevant to this debate is the long experience of the Soviet Union — and, previously, of Russia — with a special kind of medical person: the feldsher.The US-USSR Health Exchange Program, a part of the US-USSR Cultural Exchange Agreement, gave me the opportunity to . . .

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