PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - T May
TI  - The basis and limits of physician authority: a reply to critics.
AID  - 10.1136/jme.21.3.170
DP  - 1995 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 170--173
VI  - 21
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/21/3/170.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/21/3/170.full
SO  - J Med Ethics1995 Jun 01; 21
AB  - This paper develops a model of the nurse/physician authority relationship presented in an earlier issue of this journal, and responds to criticisms raised against that model in commentaries on that article. Specifically, I examine the discrepancy which exists between medical knowledge and nursing education, and show this discrepancy to be a difference in type, not quality. The implication is that improvements in nursing education will not affect the authority relationship between physician and nurse. To affect this relationship the nature of nursing education must change.