NPs and community paramedics are definitely the future for a huge chunk of the current GP workload, but PAs are a failed experiment which are being rolled back pretty much everywhere.
Are you sure about that? The ranks of PAs have been expanding rapidly. I know there has been some political resistance over expanding their scope of practice but I'm not aware of it being significantly rolled back.
The US is the global outlier here and it's in the face of the evidence. The number of PAs globally is plummeting as they're abolished by national authorities.
Nah. Total PA numbers are increasing in many other developed countries as well, including Canada and much of Europe. We can have a discussion about whether this is a good idea, but first you need to stop lying and making things up.
PAs have to practice under some level of physician oversight pretty much everywhere. That part was never in dispute. But they can offload physicians for some routine primary care cases where a real doctor isn't needed.
The data clearly shows that PA numbers continue increasing in many countries, so obviously they don't consider it a failed experiment and you're just lying to push some kind of personal agenda. It's clear you have no experience in this area, so I wonder why the need to comment at all?
We are the global outlier because it costs an arm and a leg to go to college and medical school. In the rest of the world the education is free/ still affordable. And thats why all the young doctors are also imports.
