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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!pitt!ky3b!ky3b.pgh.pa.us!km
  2. From: km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.med
  4. Subject: Re: What is a Physcian Assistant?
  5. Keywords: physicians' assistant
  6. Message-ID: <158@ky3b.UUCP>
  7. Date: 24 Jan 93 20:45:41 GMT
  8. References: <1993Jan7.113936.1@skcla.monsanto.com> <C0pHIH.8JB@csn.org> <8510@news.duke.edu> <1993Jan12.151056.23864@athena.mit.edu> <C0rE5D.GoK@javelin.sim.es.com>
  9. Sender: news@pgh.pa.us
  10. Organization: KY3B - Vax Pittsburgh, PA
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  13. I don't mean to start a war here, but personally, I have had more postive experiences
  14. working with Nurse Practitioners than with Physician Assistants. The Nurse Practitioner
  15. starts with the background and experiences of nursing, which I think adds a lot to
  16. the additional training as a Nurse Practitioner. That is not to say that there are not
  17. good PAs. When I went to medical school, PA students trained right beside the medical
  18. students in many subjects. Many PA programs, however, are not at medical schools.
  19.  
  20. -km
  21.