AAPA News Aug. 30
The Aug. 30 issue of AAPA News contains some interesting stories:
An account of disaster drill at Philadelphia University included PAs. Doug Scott does a nice job with the article, writing as if there had been an actual disaster.
At least eight PA students were killed and another 30 injured after a group of international terrorists stormed the Ravenhill Mansion on the campus of Philadelphia University on July 16. Wearing black masks and carrying submachine guns and pistols, the terrorists seized the neighboring student residence at Fortress Hall, holding approximately 40 PA students hostage for over five hours before the Philadelphia SWAT Team was brought in to assault the building and successfully rescue all the students.
Janette Rodrigues writes about health care futurist Joe Flower's address to the recent AAPA Leadership Summit.
If someone gave Joe Flower the reins to the nation’s health care system, he knows what he would do.
“If someone made me czar of health care over the next couple of years, one of the things I would do is think of one particular professional that I would really want to crank up, get more of, spread out more, and get greater use of, and it would be PAs,” said the noted health care analyst and futurist.
Flower, the founder and CEO of Imagine What If, Inc., gave the PA and PA student elected and appointed officials at the 2008 AAPA Leadership Summit something to think about. He spoke about the possible future of health care, where it could go, what medical professionals can do to make this future come about, and the role PAs could play in it.
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