Well, we don't see this often: a news article that profiles both the NP and PA professions together, in an interesting and, most importantly, accurate article. ''More people seeing nurse practitioners, physician assistants'' from the Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner, published such an article Dec. 3, so it was worthy of note. Here's a snippet, but ...

Update: As part of its annual listing of the best jobs in America mentioned here yesterday, CNN Money also ranked top jobs by growth, and PA was came in at No. 3, behind only biomedical engineer and telecommunications network engineer. Here's my favorite line: No, they're not the ones in doctors' offices checking your temperature; ...

On the Monday, Aug. 30, broadcast of NPR’s midday news-talk show, “Talk of the Nation,” host Neal Conan and NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner discussed her series, “Primary Care Under Pressure.” In the series, Rovner has discussed PAs and NPs quite a bit, particularly in her report, “Midlevel Providers Fill Primary Care Doctors’ ...