David Padgett Returns to Neoga
Illinois PA David Padgett is practicing in the town of Neoga again, about two years after his dismissal from a local clinic sparked a mini-revolt in the community.
NEOGA — More than two years after his last day on the job in his adopted hometown of Neoga, “Dr. Dave” was welcomed back to work this morning in the form of a surprise parade staged by community members in his honor.
David Padgett, a physician assistant who now works under the supervision of Dr. Hope Knauer at the Marshall Clinic facility in Neoga, was fired from Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center’s Neoga Clinic officially in May 2006, although Padgett stopped seeing patients there in February 2006.
“It seems like it was just yesterday, and it seems like it was a thousand years ago that I was here,” Padgett said Wednesday in front of the Marshall Clinic’s facility across the street from the SBLHC clinic.
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Interesting that his patients call him Dr. Dave. Imagine if he ever gets a PA-specific clinical doctorate. That kind of confusion could bring down the profession.
Also, check out the wide range of comments on this article about PA Dr. Dave's return.