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So, a Physician's Assistant Assistant? But who will assist them? At some point, dealing with the system is somebody's job. It used to be slow on paper, now i
by luma 4y ago
So, a Physician's Assistant Assistant? But who will assist them?
At some point, dealing with the system is somebody's job. It used to be slow on paper, now it's slow on a computer. Your wife is being asked to do that because the physician has offloaded that to her. Maybe she can offload it to somebody else, but then that person isn't freed up for actual medicine.
- unicornhose 4y agoHow are the computers so bad?? I don't know why, but it's personally embarrassing to me as a developer.
- scruple 4y agoHospital IT systems are infamously horrible at maintaining computer systems. I worked in healthcare tech at one point and I remember back around 2016 we were still forced to support Internet Explorer for hospital systems that had simply never updated.
- lmm 4y agoThe person who buys them isn't the person who has to use them, and the procurement is done at too large and abstract a scale for requirements more complicated than checkboxes.
- hateful 4y agoMy wife is very quick to point out that it is not "Physician's Assistant". It is "Physician Assistant". She doesn't assist the doctor - she is a provider in her own right. In fact, there is talk about changing PA to mean "Physician's Associate" instead. One article I found: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/scope-practice/pa-rebrand-physician-associates-will-deepen-patient-confusion https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/scope-practice/... Edit: here's another article https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/03/1059916872/physician-assistants-want-to-be-called-physician-associates-but-doctors-cry-foul https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/03/1059916...