Basic rights of patients are considered as well as the role of the patient advocate in helping to obtain those rights. (RK)

Eighteen premature infants were given prophylactic cutaneous stimulation and continuous positive airway pressure as a therapy for apnea (cessation of breathing). (DB)

JAMA, Nov. 4, 1968, Vol. 206, No. 6. Reprint requests to Department of Health Education, American Medical Association, 535 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois 60610.

Presented before the Section on Nursing, American College Health Association, Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota May 1, 1968.

Speech delivered to Plenary Session on "Specific Needs for Medical Manpower at the annual meeting of the Assocaition of American Medical Colleges (79th, Houston, Texas, Nov. 2, 1968).

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