'What Is a PA?' Redux
While it serves nobody for us to post every published "Health Care 101: Intro to PAs" article, here's one worth mentioning. This news feature is notable not only because is it an excellent description of the profession, but also because it focuses more on PAs than on NPs, and, remarkably, it was published on Knoxvillebiz.com—yes, the Knoxville in Tennessee, the historic NP bastion.
The article quotes a wide range of prominent PAs, including Duke's Perri Morgan, Lincoln Memorial University's Michelle Heinan and South College's Ken Harbert. (I do have to quibble with Harbert, who repeats the somewhat misleading "85 percent of what a doctor can do" line. I have yet to meet a PA who's 15% less functional in any clinical capacity.)
NPs have long filled gaps in care, but although America has had PAs since 1968, they didn’t come to the general public’s attention until the last couple of decades, when television shows "Simon & Simon" and "ER" featured PAs as characters.
These days, most PA students have themselves gone to PAs.
Great PR for Tennessee PAs.
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