Can’t find what a PA is anywhere, anyone enlighten me please?
The PA is the special constable or the teacher assistant of yesteryear. Complaints will spike but eventually after a few years they will become normal.
This is to be expected.
The number alone is worth nothing. 70 cases. Of 100, or one million?
How many cases did doctors miss, hospitals?
Worldwide huge problem in medicine: Error management. They should treat it like the safety and crew management of any notable airline: Open culture oriented to documenting and learning from errors, not to hide and/or punish.
How many have had treatment that wouldn’t have. How many days of saved pain have they enabled?
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Natalie Bennett nailing it here:
> We debate as junior doctors are in the middle of their 10th strike action. We debate as one in seven British-trained doctors is working overseas. We debate after a BMA poll found last year that around 40% of junior doctors plan to leave the NHS as soon as they can find another job.
Trying to solve the NHS staffing crisis by recruiting physician associates is like trying to put out a fire in your home by installing air conditioning.
These PAs seem to be hated by everyone they work with… Whether the role is fit for purpose or not, that sounds like a pretty toxic work environment! Poor people.
How many caused by overzealous receptionists I wonder
I recently had a test done, and when I called my GP the receptionist told me that due to the nature of the results only a doctor could give them to me, and so I’d have to call back the next day to get an appointment with a GP. So the next morning I called, explained why I called, so the receptionist set me up with an appointment.
Got a call later in the afternoon from a Mr so and so, confirmed my details, and then explained why I’d booked the appointment, only for them to then tell me that since they were a physicians associate, and not a doctor, they couldn’t give me my results, and that I’d have to call back the following day for *another* appointment.
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Can’t find what a PA is anywhere, anyone enlighten me please?
The PA is the special constable or the teacher assistant of yesteryear. Complaints will spike but eventually after a few years they will become normal.
This is to be expected.
The number alone is worth nothing. 70 cases. Of 100, or one million?
How many cases did doctors miss, hospitals?
Worldwide huge problem in medicine: Error management. They should treat it like the safety and crew management of any notable airline: Open culture oriented to documenting and learning from errors, not to hide and/or punish.
How many have had treatment that wouldn’t have. How many days of saved pain have they enabled?
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Natalie Bennett nailing it here:
> We debate as junior doctors are in the middle of their 10th strike action. We debate as one in seven British-trained doctors is working overseas. We debate after a BMA poll found last year that around 40% of junior doctors plan to leave the NHS as soon as they can find another job.
Trying to solve the NHS staffing crisis by recruiting physician associates is like trying to put out a fire in your home by installing air conditioning.
These PAs seem to be hated by everyone they work with… Whether the role is fit for purpose or not, that sounds like a pretty toxic work environment! Poor people.
How many caused by overzealous receptionists I wonder
I recently had a test done, and when I called my GP the receptionist told me that due to the nature of the results only a doctor could give them to me, and so I’d have to call back the next day to get an appointment with a GP. So the next morning I called, explained why I called, so the receptionist set me up with an appointment.
Got a call later in the afternoon from a Mr so and so, confirmed my details, and then explained why I’d booked the appointment, only for them to then tell me that since they were a physicians associate, and not a doctor, they couldn’t give me my results, and that I’d have to call back the following day for *another* appointment.
Still waiting to hear back about my complaint.