Article archive / September 1, 2009
Originally published: . Volume 1, No. 1. Source pages: 3, 7.
In a column from the Kentucky Psychology Association’s newsletter by Pat DeLeon (August 2009), Louisiana’s new Act 251 is portrayed by one of its promoters, Glenn Ally, as “ ‘The Eagle has landed,’ taking ‘one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.’” DeLeon wrote, “Jim Quillin reports that Medical Psychologists (those with RxP authority (MPs)) were successful this legislative session in formally integrating their RxP expertise with medicine. The underlying concepts of their new legislation: * MP includes the practice of medicine in addition to the practice of psychology and thus represents a new hybrid healthcare profession.”
On July 2nd, LPA members were provided with explanation through their APA supported listserv (communication system for LPA members) when Jim Quillin, authorized by the president of LAMP to provide information to LPA members, indicated that Act 251 established a “…new and hybrid healthcare profession combining psychological and medical practices.”
The Kentucky Newsletter author noted that, “Not surprisingly, in Toronto this legislation was the topic of many discussions. Glenn Ally assured those concerned that psychology was (sic) “selling out” to medicine that, to the contrary, under the Louisiana statute podiatrists already had developed a similar collegial relationship with medicine and that the new statute provided medical psychologists (MPs) with clinical independence.
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