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We asked physician assistants (PAs) across the country to submit a story from their professional experience that celebrates their career. Here is our first-place story from PA Week 2015! I have had a variety of experiences working as a U.S. Air Force physician assistant (PA) for eight years and serving […]

Throughout the month of September, we asked physician assistants (PAs) across our Facebook and Twitter channels to help us celebrate PA Week by finishing the line, “I’m a PA because…” Check out the results! “I was in Vietnam in 1966 when I learned about the concept. I applied to the […]

Recently, while on a locums assignment in a very small, rural hospital, I cared for a gentleman with chest pain. His discomfort seemed classic for an MI, but his EKG did not. I treated him as normal, with aspirin and nitrates, and waited for his cardiac markers to come back […]

Nurse practitioners (NP) are less likely to be named in a malpractice suit than physician assistants or physicians. According to research conducted by the Federation of State Medical Boards, “NPs may decrease [malpractice] liability, at least as viewed through the lens of a national reporting system.” From 1991 to 2007, […]