National Physician Assistant Week
A physician assistant (PA), is a healthcare professional who is trained to practice medicine as part of a team with physicians.
Physician assistants are concerned with preventing and treating human illness and injury by providing a broad range of health care services traditionally performed by a physician. Physician assistants conduct physical exams, diagnose and treat illnesses, order and interpret tests, prescribe medications, counsel on preventive health care and may assist in surgery.
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Famous quotes containing the words national, physician and/or week:
“Just so before we’re international,
We’re national and act as nationals.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician’s interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.”
—Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)