I thought I was seeing a GP – but I was misdiagnosed by a physician associate

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1. Any physician associate who goes beyond what they are allowed to do should be prosecuted and made financially liable. Along with a life ban from all medical practice of any description.

2. > I couldn’t think properly, so I’d have to read emails six or seven times to comprehend them, which was completely out of the ordinary for me. And the dizziness was making it difficult to drive or even stand up

   Last time I felt like that, it was sepsis, and I can only warn anyone with such symptoms not to be fobbed off with a sheet of exercises. What was wrong with this chap then?

   > “She looked at my medical history and asked some much more targeted questions, pieced it all together, and recommended talking therapy and antidepressants,” Dave explains, who is now well.

   Err… right you are! Seems like a time waster to me. What’s the betting he’s got a supply of amitriptyline?

3. the PA at my doctors told me i’m peri menopausal when he meant i have PMDD then told me it’s because there are so many acronyms. i was in bits lmao i started freaking out because i’m only 30. i don’t trust them lol

4. Apart from having no place in a GP surgery with no direct supervision, they should be obliged to say they are PAs and not ‘doctors’.

   [The BMA isn’t happy about them](https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/new-survey-shows-shocking-scale-of-concern-from-doctors-over-use-of-physician-associates#:~:text=%24%7B%20item.Term%20%7D-,New%20survey%20shows%20“shocking%20scale”%20of%20concern%20from%20doctors,over%20use%20of%20physician%20associates&text=The%20majority%20of%20doctors%20who,significant%20risk%20to%20patient%20safety.)

5. Get rid of physician associates – failed to get into medical school and now cosplaying as doctors .

6. Is the UK unique in having lesser qualified medical staff do basic check ins ? Seems like common sense provided there’s sufficient guard rails around it