B.C. outlier when it comes to hiring physician assistants
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PRINCE GEORGE — Our health care system has been dealing with a lot since the pandemic and physician assistants (PA’s) are present in all but 2 provinces, and B.C. is one of those provinces.
There has been a lot of talk recently about what needs to be done to help our health care system. In B.C., almost a million residents have no family doctor and lack access to primary care. One group of medical professionals, say they can help fill in the gap and they’re physician assistants.
Physician assistants are “advanced practice clinicians who are educated in the medical model and practice medicine under the supervision of a licensed physician with negotiated autonomy, often within a multidisciplinary health team.” PA’s are highly skilled health professionals and can work in any clinical setting to extend a doctor’s reach, and some key functions they perform include:
