Category: Physician

The role of a PA Role of a Physician Associate The role of a Physician Associate (PA) often creates a question that demands the definition of PAs since the introduction of PAs in the 1950s (Braun et al., 1973). Physician associates are medically trained professionals who are generalists within the healthcare industry. A PA’s role…

The UK National Health Service is funded by UK citizen taxation and provided by the government and is comprised of primary care facilities that offer healthcare for general diseases and secondary and tertiary care providers that offer specialist care. Physician associates (PA) are medical professionals with generalist medical knowledge who work under a doctors supervision…

Accessibility to quality health services is important for the upgrading of results. Vulnerable groups in upcountry and inner-city zones have inadequate access to general practitioner and compulsory medical inputs. In contrast, urban regions enjoy an oversupply of medical doctors. The geographic disparities in the spreading of physicians have led to the uneven improvement of health…

With increasing people being diagnosed with terminal illnesses, there is an increase in the number of patients who try to seek out a way to get rid of or fix their illness. Doctors use experimental medications for some, while the others are told about the few months they have, to live. However, doctors also have…