Our country is blessed to have medical regulatory boards that serve to protect patients and their providers. Some other parts of the world do not require a license or special privileges. Those countries just want help from anyone willing, and it does not always end well. So, the United States has a blessing and a curse. Since ...

This week I've been scheduled on nights, and it's been a completely different ER experience. While many of the chief complaints are the same as what I've seen during the day in the ER, the pace has been different. There is no doubt that things can get just as hectic at night as they do during the day, but for the most part, things usually tend to ...

The art of practicing medicine calls for repetition paired with real-life encounters. We do not learn how to be PAs in the classroom; we learn this skill in the field. The best part about clinical rotations for the PA student is the daily exposure and immediate hands-on opportunities. My last patient encounter was towards the end of April. There ...

Amidst the chaos that is my surgery rotation, my preceptor found some time today to sit down with the students and offer some life advice. After a long discussion about work ethic and about decisions we’ll make after school, we got into the value of time — and more importantly experience — in this line of work. His advice centered on how even ...