First doctor-nurses, now doctor-PAs?

This isn’t very surprising, it was only a matter of time. Everyone wants the respect and prestige of the title ‘doctor’.

My favorite evidence of this is the prevalence of white coats at a hospital. I work at a major teaching hospital on the east coast and one trip to the cafeteria shows all sorts of people wearing long white coats: nutritionists, PAs, gift-store clerks, cafeteria managers, etc.

It was the Army, forced by a psychologist in the Senate, who started the psychologist prescribing thing also.

Soldiers are a great population upon which to “prove” the workability of pseuododoctors practicing medicine–they are healthy, hard to kill, rarely really sick, trained to not complain, can’t sue, and don’t have any choice about who to see. You could slap a Doctor of Divinity degree on my 3rd grade educated grandmother out there to provide them with basic care and not see adverse results often enough to raise any red flags.