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More Discussion on PAs and the Physician Shortage
August 25, 2009 10:43 AM by Heather Simons
And so the health care reform debate continues... A recent article at Examiner.com champions PAs and NPs as a possible solution to the physician shortage. "Primary physician shortage spurs search for alternatives," by DC public policy examiner Alan Portner, Read More...
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AAPA President Writes to USA Today
August 21, 2009 11:10 AM by Heather Simons
In response to an article in USA Today , "Doctor shortage looms as primary care loses its pull," AAPA president Stephen Hanson wrote a letter to the editor explaining what every PA knows and most of the public--and Congress--have yet to understand: PAs Read More...
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The PA Profession Revealed, By Chapter
August 19, 2009 12:26 PM by Heather Simons
A facebook update from Physician Assistant History Center this morning thanked California PA Beth Grivett for donating her recently published book for prospective PA students, So You Want To Be A Physician Assistant , to the PAHx. The book's foreword, Read More...
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Sun Reporter Corrects Omission of PAs
August 12, 2009 12:58 PM by Heather Simons
Last Sunday, The Baltimore Sun reporter Kelly Brewington wrote this article: "Nurse practitioners pick up the slack in providing primary care." Today, Brewington published another article, "Physician assistants and health care reform," apparently in response Read More...
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TIME Article Praises NPs, Ignores PAs
August 3, 2009 12:55 PM by Heather Simons
In a TIME Magazine article published on the Web today, nurse practitioners are lauded as the possible "key" to the success of health care reform: There is an existing group of providers that health reformers are hoping can help fill this gap: nurse practitioners. Read More...
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PAs Discuss Health Care on Fox News
July 31, 2009 10:25 AM by Heather Simons
Yesterday, Fox News posted two videos in which future health care professionals from Emory University answer questions about their views on health care reform. The first video, "Doctors of Tomorrow," included three medical students, one resident and two Read More...
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PA Voices His Views at CNNMoney
July 30, 2009 11:48 AM by Terri Schaefer
J. Michael Jones, PA-C, who practices in Anacortes, Wash., was recently featured in an online CNNMoney feature, “ Doctor shortage: Who should fill it? ” In his answer, Jones—also an ADVANCE contributor and peer reviewer—argues that with more autonomy Read More...
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Interview with AAPA's President Elect Gets Big Response
July 27, 2009 10:23 AM by Heather Simons
An interview with Patrick Killeen, president elect of AAPA, has drawn nearly 100 comments and counting on the Daily Kos Web site. Killeen was interviewed by his supervising physician on topics ranging from the AAPA's position on health care reform to Read More...
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AAPA Advertisement Addresses Congress
July 21, 2009 10:51 AM by Heather Simons
On Friday, July 17 and Monday, July 20, the AAPA placed this ad in two Capitol Hill publications. The ad urges members of Congress to "make it as easy to care for someone dying as it is to care for someone living." From the AAPA e-newsletter: CQ Today Read More...
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Negative Article Prompts Rebuttal From PA
July 20, 2009 11:38 AM by Heather Simons
An article titled "Those with little formal training still allowed to take X-rays," published in Connecticut newspaper The Day on July 6, has prompted a rebuttal from a Unionville PA in defense of physician assistants. PA Marc Benjamin expressed his concern Read More...
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Columnist Gets the PA Role Right
July 14, 2009 1:13 PM by Terri Schaefer
Deseret News columnist Marjorie Cortez was spot-on in describing the role of PAs in health care in her article published this morning: I'm continually fascinated by people I encounter in medical-clinic waiting rooms who absolutely refuse to see health-care Read More...
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Can PAs Help Meet Patient Expectations?
July 9, 2009 2:45 PM by Heather Simons
On Monday, The Philadelphia Inquirer published a column called "Waiting to see the Doc: We truly do apologize" by Rachel K. Sobel, a third-year resident of the Wills Eye Residency Program at Thomas Jefferson University. Sobel writes about the frustration Read More...
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Med Students, Branding and Tchotchkes
May 20, 2009 2:41 PM by Michael Gerchufsky
The authors of a study in the May 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine find that "subtle exposures to branded pharmaceutical promotional items influences implicit attitudes of medical students toward pharmaceutical brands." The randomized controlled Read More...
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Reimbursement Shift?
April 2, 2009 5:09 PM by Stephen Cornell
PA blogger physasst suggets a radical shift in medical reimbursement on his blog. Essentially, If I were health care "czar", my first action would be an across the board cut of 30% in payments (CMS) to surgical specialists and interventional radiology, Read More...
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Coffee Improves Athletic Performance
April 1, 2009 2:57 PM by Stephen Cornell
Caffeine is a powerful athletic performance enhancer, according to an interesting article in the New York Times . Exercise physiologists have studied caffeine’s effects in nearly every iteration: Does it help sprinters? Marathon runners? Cyclists? Rowers? Read More...
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