Posted on 09/10/2013 2:33:07 PM PDT by topher
There are a fair number of surgical PAs. They are as good as doctors in the specialty that they select.
Historical note: In the Victorian time, Surgeons were a low class service group, derived from Barbers. Physicians were higher class, as they didn’t have to actually touch sick people. Pharmacists were also low class as they were actually in trade.
One physician thought that surgeons should also know something about disease, and physicians should also something about surgery, and he put together the ‘general practitioner’ who would be able to do both. He found a lot of people who agreed, but eventually the medical field became too diverse for anyone to be good at all of it, so specialties evolved for doctors.
The Physician Assistants were invented because some military/naval corpsmen sought to find a job in the medical field after Vietnam. They were told that, after performing major surgery on wounded soldiers in Vietnam they would have to get a 4 year bachelors degree, and then 6 years medical school, just as if they had popped out of high school. They did what so many people do, they sued the AMA and won. PA programs were the response to that suit.
PAs tend to have less wide ranging skills, but are expected and required to be quite good at the ones they do. There are psychiatric PAs, surgical PAs, gerontological PAs, and obstetrical PAs, among others. Some even do research.
Why don’t they certify barbers, as well. It worked in the Middle Ages.
well, the back alleys were good enough after all!
I guess that we are back to using coat hangers, but not in the back alley. That will save a lot of money and decrease the cost of killing babies, and result in fewer babies that the government has to care for.
Nice policy right up there with the Death Panels.
Will California also shield them from the inevitable lawsuits?
California to enact new bill allowing barbers to leech
and bleed customers also extract teeth.
It’s historic says governor.
Back-alley abortions — the very thing used as a straw man in support of Roe v Wade. Thanks topher.
And they’re not too worried about sterilizing the ones that they don’t kill when they mutilate uteruses.
Death of the “mother,” and if she lives, the prevention of the children she might have had.
It’s all part of Agenda 21.
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