Physician Assistant Field Experience
INTRODUCTION
Today, physician assistants function as the doctor's right-hand man(or woman), backup, or in some cases, their substitute. Sometimes I wonder what the difference between a physician assistant and a doctor really is. According to T.J. Sacks, “Within the limits of their expertise, physician assistants provide care that is the equivalent in quality to the care provided by the family physician”(Sacks, 2002, pg. 165). The physician who supervises the PA is the one responsible for the physician assistant's performance. The physician assistant assists the physician in a variety of medical performances such as ordering common laboratory tests, giving injections, and applying casts to give the physician more time to diagnose and treat their more severely hurt patients. To become a physician assistant you would want to have a desire to work with and for other people, have a high emotional maturity level with a strong sense of......

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Title: Field Report
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