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A physician assistant is not someone who balked at med school after premed, but is a separate degree program. PAs grew out of a bunch of Vietnam-era medics who got back to the world and were told, "no, all of your experience in the bush doesn't count for shit, but if you want to get hired as an orderly and move bedpans around and have no responsibility that a janitor can't also manage, you can have a great career in medicine."
I think that the word "assistant" throws a bunch of people off.
PAs do write (countersigned) scripts, can do procedures, do diagnose and treat.
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