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Most of the attempts to control health care costs are focused on direct costs of diagnosis and therapy. However, what is needed is a more fundamental approach to cost containment. The key lies in the prevention and delay of onset of the chronic degenerative diseases.
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Pat Johnson is a special kind of nurse. She has helped develop a team of nurse practitioners to function much like the traditional pediatric intern in the newborn intensive care unit of St. Paul's Children's Hospital. She is able to do physical examinations, interprets test results, and then determines a baby's problems and needs from an insight that is a combination of nursing and medicine.