A Physician Story About Dr. Stead
From ADVANCE for Physician Assistants editor Michael Gerchufsky:
MIAMI—Here in Miami at the inaugural Aesthetic Extender Symposium (http://www.aestheticextendersymposium.com/) , I just got a rare treat: I heard a story involving Dr. Eugene Stead that I had never before heard. AES is a four-day course specifically for PAs and NPs presenting the spectrum of topics in aesthetic medicine, and co-founded by ADVANCE editorial advisory board member Krystie P. Lennox, PA-C. 
Mark Tager, MD, is an accomplished physicians who is the chief marketing officer for Syneron Medical, and he previously had served in senior managerial positions at Reliant Technologies, where he was involved in the introduction of the Fraxel Laser.
To illustrate his respect for (and understanding of) PAs, Dr. Tager recounted one of his experiences at Duke University. During rounds, Dr. Tager and other accompanying Dr. Stead stopped at the bedside of a particular patient. Dr. Stead explained that the patient had worked all his life at a job that required hard manual labor. Dr. Stead asked the group on rounds who knew how long the patient had been in the hospital. The interns looked around, shrugging their shoulders. Nobody could hazard a guess. Until a PA felt the patient's feet and then spoke up, declaring with certainty the exact number of days the patient had been there. Dr. Stead beamed.
The PA had been a corpsman in Vietnam and had treated so many soldiers with combat-boot-related foot problems, that he could simply observe the softness of the calluses on the man's feet to ascertain how long he'd been in a hospital bed.
Great story.