Re: Re: Re: Re: BLS Daily Report

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have no complaints about PAs. When I was on the HMO, the doc's office
assigned me to the PA (since they treated me as a second-class citizen).
Then I went on the Preferred Provider plan and got the doc himself. He's
fine, but too much into prescribing pills as a solution to all ills. I'm
back on the HMO now (I've got to cut costs!) so I'm a second-class citizen
again (I get sent out to get my blood checked for cholesterol rather than
having it done in-house), but I wouldn't mind seeing the PA again.

Many nurses complain about the high pay that PAs get, though.

At 08:17 PM 02/27/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> Yeah, but Physicians Assistants make more, on average, than nurses and can go
> into practice for themselves.  Also, at least for women, PAs often provide
> better care than MDs -- for ex., PAs are midwives and provide routine
> gynecological care.  I went to a PA for years instead of a gyno, and she
> pulled me through a couple of problems the gynos couldn't identify.  Also, PAs
> are frequently trained in abortion and can provide services in a doctors
> office in many places where there are absolutely no other service providers
> available. maggie coleman
>
> Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > Some nursing jobs have been taken over by Physicians' Assistants, who are
> > basically low-paid MDs.
> >
> > At 12:17 PM 2/26/01 -0800, you wrote:
> > >Part time nurses under temporary contracts are doing quite well, although
> > >hospitals are downgrading many traditional nursing jobs to have
> > >non-professionals take over.
> > >--
> > >
> > >Michael Perelman
> > >Economics Department
> > >California State University
> > >michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >Chico, CA 95929
> > >530-898-5321
> > >fax 530-898-5901
> >
> > Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine