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Keep calm and put out a MET call #2222. Anti-scope creep . We neither confirm nor deny that the Med Reg is a Doctor. Viva La Revolución🦀✊🏼 Viva La Resistencia
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Unpopular opinion:.I don’t see any dignity in pharmacy first service. I see an elderly lady explaining her UTI symptoms with a queue of 7 people behind her listening to the convo. There must be some privacy, a tiny room !?.@NHSuk .@PharmacyFirst .#MedTwitter.
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🆘Hello @UniOfHull .@HullHospitals . Your PA student was busy video recording a Doctor whilst he was rushing to save the life of a newborn baby with potential Respiratory arrest 💀☠️. ⭕️The nurses/midwives put out the call and this sheila was expected to help with delivering
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🏴☠️ Hi Newcastle University @StudentsNCL,. Your Physician Assistant student is wearing a “MEDICAL STUDENT” lanyard, which is quite misleading for patients and supervising Doctors. ⭕️ You cannot compare someone in a superficial 2-year PA course to a medical student who is
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🔴Hello @uochester. Your Physician Assistant student is sharing MRI brain images for a patient without consent on TikTok. ⭕️Are they allowed to be first Assistants in surgical operations 💀?. ⭕️They are also lecturing students before even completing their MSc. This is abysmal
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🔴Now I cannot unsee this:. A Physician Assistant student is sharing confidential information for a child presented with Kawasaki disease symptoms as a quiz for her TikTok followers ☠️. ⭕️Parents can easily recognise the story as it’s rare in the UK. ⭕️RIP professionalism.
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🆘Hi @_BNUni . Your Physician Assistant students are sharing photos of patients’ radiographs and excised BREAST tissue on social media ☠️. ⭕️This is a serious breach of patient confidentiality and patients can be easily identified. ⭕️ Did they seek consent?. Totally unacceptable
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☣️Hi @AngliaRuskin . We are seriously concerned that your PA student had shared a video for a SUTURED WOUND on patient’s leg (TikTok) ☠️💀. ⛔️I see zero respect for patient privacy and dignity. ⛔️Did your students receive certain training on how to maintain pt confidentiality?
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🆘Hi @StGeorgesUni . Patients are extremely concerned that your Physician Assistant student leaked radiographs for a patient’s foot without consent and shared it online💀☠️. ⭕️Also the same sheila shared confidential patient information (Age, gender , presenting complaint,
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🔴This PA is bragging about how she palliated a patient and started them on End of Life care pathway. ⛔️By the way, the decision to palliate patients must be made by the medical consultant in charge of patient’s care NOT a physician Assistant. Get a grip of yourself
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🔴Congratulations on your solid base of arguments. This Physician Associate is complaining about tension between Doctors and PAs. ⭕️Yes FY Docs are your seniors. ⭕️You wanted a 9-5 job+attractive pay. ⭕️If you want to do doctoring, go to proper Med school and take it from there
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🆘 A Physician Assistant strikes again from GP land. This dude was very dismissive and ignored red flag symptoms in a lady who turned out to have KIDNEY CANCER 💀☠️. ⭕️ Back pain and weight loss should not be ignored in any patient and must be investigated promptly to rule out
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🏴☠️ I need to wash my eyes with bleach after seeing this:. A Physician Associate inserted a chest drain into a patient’s chest, causing a tension pneumothorax—a potentially fatal medical emergency. 💀☠️. ⭕️ This is verging on criminality. Even Medical Registrars might feel
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🆘 Hello @UniOfHull.@HullHospitals. Your Physician Associate student is mocking her patients with Decompensated Liver Failure, which is appallingly unprofessional and inappropriate. 💀☠️. ⭕️ This sheila doesn’t seem to realise that patients did not choose to be “yellow with big
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🔴I’m not sure if Tom has ever seen the anatomy of the hand?. ⭕️Hand surgeons spend at least 10 years in general surgery and subspecialty to become hand surgeons. ⭕️Do you think PAs can do it with 2-year degree and learning on the job?. The lack of insight is staggering
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🆘Physician Assistants strike again from GP land. This PA is sharing a massive amount of patients’ confidential information on Instagram☠️💀. ⭕️Making fun of her Dementia patient. ⭕️What if your patients have seen it?( Age, sex, complaint). Absolutely abhorrent and inappropriate
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🆘 Hello @BWC_NHS . We are seriously concerned about your advert for “Physician Associate in Paediatric Cardiology” who will be looking after critically unwell kiddies with complex cardiac conditions 💀☠️. ⭕️They will cover the high dependency unit and PICU?. ⭕️PAs don’t know the
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🔴Hi @LancsHospitals . There is a strong evidence that a Physician Assistant is performing brain surgeries on your patients such as Subdural Haematoma evacuation ☠️💀. ⭕️It was “all on-the-job learning”. ⭕️They also teach junior Doctors??. This is an unprecedented situation.
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🔴Good afternoon @uhbtrust . The public are extremely concerned this Physician Assistant is performing major limb amputations and vein harvesting for OPEN HEART surgery on your patients ☠️💀. ⭕️Experience as medical secretary?. ⭕️Zero base knowledge in Anatomy. This is abysmal.
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🏴☠️ Why would a Physician Assistant in GP land fiddle with a patient’s medications prescribed by their consultant cardiologist with over 30 years of experience? 💀. ⭕️ This level of overconfidence is not seen among other healthcare professionals; even pharmacists wouldn’t have the
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🆘 Dear public,. This Physician Assistant is boasting about how she palliated an elderly patient on Instagram and placed them on an END OF LIFE CARE PATHWAY 💀☠️☠️. ⭕️ There is zero professionalism and empathy towards patients approaching the end of their life and their family
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🔴I tried my best to leave this PA student alone, but mate why do you wear “Royal College of Anaesthetists @RCoANews .” lanyard?. ⭕️It’s usually worn by Anaesthetic Registrar/Consultant. ⭕️Also you don’t work in MEDICINE. You do PA studies as Physician Assistant. Get a grip.
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☢️Hi @BWC_NHS again,. This mum is deeply concerned that you’re planning to employ a Physician Assistant who will be practising on her son with complex cardiac condition called Tetralogy of Fallot ☠️ . ⭕️Parents are expecting the highest quality of care to be provided and it’s
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🔴Junior Doctors are being told off by ladder-pulling consultants for refusing to prescribe for Physician Associates. ⭕️This JD might still be crucified by the GMC if the prescription is wrong. ⭕️Prescribing is not that simple; it is not a matter of painting by numbers.
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🏴☠️ Physician Assistants strike again from Gastro wards @HullHospitals . This newly qualified PA has been let loose on patients to perform the ascitic drain procedure + the risk of causing Intra-abdominal SEPSIS is extremely high 💀☠️. ⭕️ She is completely unaware of the
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🆘Dear Public,. This chap is the medical director for the @gmcuk and he confirmed that Physician Assistants will be granted prescribing rights+ can request ionising radiation after regulation. This means that pregnant ladies might be prescribed teratogenic medications or
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📛Dear Physician Associates,. This photo was sent to me by a 6th year medical student. Can you see the pile of handouts/reference books ?. There is nothing called “ accelerated intensive course in Medicine “ or shortcuts 💀
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🆘Hello @royalmarsdenNHS.@QMUL . There is a strong evidence that this Physician Assistant is operating on pts with Gynae cancer as 1st surg Assistant with 15 years of experience in “INVESTMENT BANKING” ☠️💀. ⭕️She assists in open, lap and robotic surgeries. ⭕️Absolutely dangerous
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🆘Dear @WestSuffolkNHS ,. The public are seriously concerned that you are allowing Physician Assistants to examine/manage newborn babies autonomously. As a result, the PA missed signs of serious illness, and the baby suffered a long-term disability ☠️💀. ⭕️PAs spend only 3 weeks
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🔴I’ve never heard any Obs and Gynae consultant claiming they can feel the fallopian tube and ovaries in pregnant ladies, apparently this PA student can. ⛔️Why are allowed to practice directly on patients+ suturing episiotomy wound?. ⛔️The term “clinician” is vague and misleading
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🔴Hello @NHSGrampian ,. There is strong evidence that you’re allowing Physician Associates to perform surgery on patients as first Assistants, which includes port insertion and deep tissue suturing/ligation 💀☠️. ⭕️This should be reserved for Surgical Regs/CST Doctors training
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Hi @KingsCollegeNHS . The public are deeply concerned that you will hire a Physician Assistant who will be looking after critically ill kiddies with Liver failure/transplant 💀☠️. ⭕️Children who had liver/bowel transplant are very complicated + on immunosuppressants. PAs have
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🆘Hi @NHSGrampian. One of the Doctors is deeply concerned that you are allowing this Physician Associate to perform Neurosurgical operations on kiddies as the first Assistant which includes all types of cases + craniotomy (cutting the skull open) ☠️💀☠️. ⭕️He is working at the
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🆘 Hello St George’s NHS Trust @geshNHS,. It is absolutely shocking that you are allowing your Physician Assistants to perform urological ROBOTIC operations, such as prostatectomies, as first surgical assistants 💀☠️☠️. ⭕��� How can a PA, who has near-zero knowledge of the anatomy
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🆘This sneaky Physician Assistant student is secretly videorecording Allied Healthcare professionals, patients and Doctors. ⭕️It’s unprofessional despite the fact that they cannot be identified. ⭕️They might refuse to have a student shadowing them if they see your video on TikTok
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🆘 Hello University Hospitals Birmingham @uhbtrust,. This should send shivers down the spine of every member of the public!. You are allowing your Physician Assistants to perform major limb amputations and harvest veins as part of OPEN HEART SURGERY 💀☠️💀. ⭕️ Being a first
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📛Shoutout to the general public who are distributing flyers to raise awareness of the Physician Assistants issue. ⭕️PAs on Instagram are fuming and calling it “propaganda”. ⭕️It is solely because you guys introduce yourselves in a very vague way, just say Assistants.
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☢️ Hello @NCICNHS ,. Your Physician Assistant is celebrating her first "ascitic drain," dismissing the serious concerns recently raised by the coroner following the death of Mrs S P.💀☠️. ⭕️ Physician Assistants must not perform such procedures due to the risk of injury to
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🔴Now I cannot unsee this:. A Physician Assistant is boasting about running the NPH service( Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus) 💀. ⭕️It used to be run by Neurosurgical/Neurology Registrars. ⭕️It involves cognitive assessments and Lumbar punctures ☠️. This is so egregious
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🆘 Dear @WorcsAcuteNHS,. The lack of respect for the on-call Medical team is staggering!. The medics were kicked out of their office by one of your MATRONS. ⭕️ The on-call team is in charge of over 500,000 people living in Worcestershire when it comes to medical emergencies and
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🆘This Physician Assistant student had shared an x-ray image with her followers on Instagram for a kiddy who ingested a foreign body 💀☠️. ⭕️Another serious breach of patient confidentiality (Age,Sex,Date). ⭕️This is Unprofessional and a kind of hideous boasting. Do better
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🆘 Physician Associates in Scotland are setting the entire healthcare system on fire:. ☠️ One of them missed a serious brain haemorrhage, and God knows whether the patient survived this episode or not. ☠️ A PA dude also tried to manage a difficult airway for a critically unwell
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🔴As usual, all the innovative PA students had graduated from St George’s university @StGeorgesUni . Another serious breach of patients’ confidentiality 💀 . ⭕️Unprofessional and zero educational value. ⭕️Why taking photos in theatre? learn something instead.
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🆘Hi @royalmarsdenNHS . There is a strong evidence that you’re allowing Physician Assistants to authorise anti-cancer therapy 💀☠️. PAs cannot prescribe+have no base knowledge in pharmacology. They should not fiddle with patients’ Chemotherapeutics. This is just abhorrent. Thanks
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🆘Physician Associates strike again from A+E:. A PA asked a Doctor to sign a prescription to approve the LETHAL dose of Tramadol( opioid painkiller) ☠️💀. ⭕️Regulating PAs won’t make them safe to prescribe. ⭕️They need get pharmacology drilled into them same as Med students.
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🆘From Reddit:. Physician Assistants are now in management positions in some departments and they hire “remote locum Doctors” to circumvent the prescribing issue ☠️. ⭕️Absolutely dodgy practice. ⭕️You cannot prescribe because you’re UNSAFE. ⭕️Also covering oncall Docs rota??
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🆘 Hi @RBNHSFT,. I was fast bleeped by someone to have a look at this FOI request + you confirmed that Physician Assistants have been used to cover Doctor shifts within your hospital/Trust. ⭕️ It is absolutely shocking that you allowed “PA students” to cover fully qualified
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🆘 Dear @gmcuk ,. Can you please confirm whether Physician Assistants are allowed to sign “Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNR)” forms 💀☠️?. ⭕️ This PA has been signing DNR forms for a while and illegally prescribing medications. They don’t have the knowledge or expertise to
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🔴 Is it normal to have 11 Physician Assistants in one surgery?. There are only 4 GPs. How can these Doctors supervise such a large number of Assistants??. ⭕️ This means it’s impossible for the supervising GPs to scrutinise every consultation the PAs have with patients. ⭕️Who is
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☢️Hello @RCOphth. Why are you allowing Physician Assistants to do intravitreal injections with no base knowledge in physiology and anatomy of normal eye ☠️. ⭕️Wasting taxpayers money to get a PA( > £45K) to only “scribe” for the Ophthalmologist in clinic. Stop the PA experiment
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🆘Hello @NorthBristolNHS ,. I stumbled upon this document confirming that you are allowing Physician Assistants to discuss “Advance Care Planning” and “Do Not Attempt Resuscitation” with frail patients in care homes 💀. ⭕️DNR decisions must always be countersigned by the
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🏴☠️ Dear @DudleyGroupNHS @unibirmingham ,. The general public are seriously concerned that this Physician Assistant is allowed to carry out the duties of a CONSULTANT Gastroenterologist in your hospital. 💀☠️. ⭕️ This means he is expected to look after the sickies with
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🔴 Hi @WorcsAcuteNHS,. Thank you for responding to my previous post raising serious concerns about the behaviour of one of your MATRONS. ⭕️ This move was not taken in the interest of patient safety as you claimed. It was made in the interest of your matron and one of the A+E
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🆘 Hello Royal Berkshire Hospital @RBNHSFT,. The public are seriously concerned that your Physician Assistant is bossing F1 doctors around and working at the level of a CONSULTANT/REGISTRAR, leading ward rounds 💀☠️. ⭕️ The PA role was introduced to scribe for doctors and
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🔴Dear PAs,. You shouldn’t perform abdominal examination on elderly patients whilst they’re sitting in a wheelchair in A+E. ⭕️You must put the patient on a couch/bed so you can feel for organomegaly/Ascites/Tenderness. ⭕️The surgeons would crucify anyone trying to refer a
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🔴We are Physician Assistant students, of course we take creepy pictures for patient records/radiographs from behind the doctor's back. ⭕️ @StGeorgesUni your students will soon get the Trust heavily fined because of “breaching patient confidentiality”. ⭕️I hid the name of the pt
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🔴Hello @KingsCollegeNHS .@KingsCollegeLon . What do you mean by “lead PA in Neurology and stroke”?.Do they work at consultant level with 2-year PA course?. In some third-world countries, only holders of PhD can LECTURE Med students. What quality of Med students will we have?
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☢️I kid you not, fully qualified Doctors (F1s) are not allowed be OSCE examiners in Medical school. A random dude (Physician Assistant) with 2-year degree can oversee training of Doctors+PAs of any stage. Bizarre
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🔴This is the minimum number of post-grad exams Doctors do before stepping up as Medical Registrars, not to mention Foundation and Internal Medicine Training ( min 5 years). PAs be like:
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🔴Dear @gmcuk ,. There is a strong evidence that patients are at high risk of harm from Physician Assistants 💀. ⭕️PAs must not be alone with VULNERABLE patients + make autonomous diagnostic and treatment decisions without direct supervision of a Doctor. ⭕️Regulating PAs will
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🆘Hello @MSEHospitals . Your Physician Assistant in Nephrology is boasting about having Docs as her ASSISTANTS whilst fiddling with dialysis lines 💀☠️. ⭕️Called them “my baby?”🚩. ⭕️A perfect illustration of unprofessional behaviour and flippancy that seems widespread in PA land
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🏴☠️ The temerity of these Physician Assistants!. I was recently contacted by an F2 doctor via DMs. This poor F2 was bullied by one of the PAs on the ward to prescribe a drug for a patient she had never met. 💀☠️. ⭕️She politely explained that she couldn’t prescribe the.
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📛Hi @TorbaySDevonNHS again,. There is a strong evidence that you provided false information in response to the first FOI asking you whether Physician Assistants covered Paeds shifts or not 💀. ⭕️Isn’t it illegal for such big organisation to deceive and mislead the public?
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🏴☠️ Physician Assistants strike again from A+E. A PA missed an acute STROKE in a lady who presented with confusion and poor coordination 💀☠️. ⭕️ This is one of the most common presentations of a posterior circulation stroke, and doctors typically identify it by performing a
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🔴A snarky Physician Assistant on Registrar rota has indirectly bullied the F2 Junior Doctor to prescribe clot busters drug ( Alteplase ) for stroke patient ☠️💀. ⛔️High risk of causing intracranial bleeding. ⛔️Doctors must refuse to prescribe for the unregulated PAs. ⛔️?Strange
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🔴I need to wash my eyes with bleach after seeing this. Senior PAs in some trusts can handle Nephrology consultant bleep 💀☠️. ⭕️The lack of insight is staggering. ⭕️You aren’t a Doc. You have zero understanding of what dedication it takes to become a Nephrology consultant.
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🆘 Hello @BTHFT,. Don’t you guys feel ashamed that Doctors working in the Surgical Assessment Unit are prevented from placing their bags and belongings in the ward staff room, but are forced to leave them in the TOILETS (changing facilities)? 💀☠️. ⭕️ The doctors are working
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🔴This PA hit the nail on the head. Apparently, Doctors wasted their time reading dozens of books. They are unnecessarily overqualified.
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🔴I can’t get my head around the fact that newly qualified PAs have been pushed to act up as GPs and fly solo without appropriate knowledge and expertise. ⭕️This poor PA isn’t sure how to manage a simple sore throat. ⭕️I would grill Med students if they struggle with this.
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🏴☠️ Hi @UCLan ,. The audacity of your Physician Assistant student to moan about not being able to “prescribe”. This sheila is wondering how her PA colleagues have been “riding it out all these years without prescribing rights”. ⭕️I’m gonna tell you how. They’ve been illegally
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🆘 Dear @NHSGrampian ,. The public are seriously concerned about your response regarding the Physician Assistant performing neurosurgical operations on kiddies as a First Assistant 💀☠️. ⭕️ You mentioned that your PA has NEVER operated on any person as a First Assistant, which
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🆘A patient ended up intubated and ventilated on the ITU because the Physician Assistant is faffing around+ let loose on Resus patients ☠️💀. ⛔️The Med Reg stepped in to rescue this pt. ⛔️PAs cannot interpret simple CXR. ⛔️The Cons enabling such omnishambles should be prosecuted
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🏴☠️Hello, University of Reading @UniofReading,. Your Physician Assistant student is sharing sensitive, CONFIDENTIAL patient information on Instagram, including in-depth details of their medical history, making them easily identifiable. 💀☠️☠️. ⭕️ The trust to which you sent your
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📛Physician Assistant students must not see patients alone in GP land. ⭕️Chest pain attributed to “acid reflux” by the student? 💀. ⭕️GP remotely agreed without physically reviewing the patient. ⭕️Could’ve been a heart attack?. The sooner this charade is dealt with the better
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🔴An ex-physiotherapist “stumbled upon the PA course” and decided to become a PA. This sheila is bragging about what she is allowed to do in Gastroenterology whilst Junior Doctors are stuck on the ward doing service provision stuff. ⭕️She is convinced that she works at
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🆘 Dear @ESNEFT @AngliaRuskin ,. I feel like I need to wash my eyes with bleach after seeing this job advert:. “The Medical Doctor Degree Apprentice”. ⭕️ This is a serious attempt to insult the entire medical profession. Even Physician Assistant students wouldn’t be involved in
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☣️Hello @CUH_NHS . Someone is seriously concerned about this advert for Dermatology Consultant(Mohs Surgery) job. The pay is criminally low (£63,527)and why, in the name of all things holy, do they have nearly the same pay as a newly qualified Physician Assistant(£60,000). Thanks
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🆘 Dear @JamesPagetNHS ,. Your breast surgeon has confirmed that she’s got a Physician Associate who is working as a first Assistant (mid-level) during surgical operations 💀☠️. ⭕️ Many surgical Registrars and CSTs would fight tooth and nail for the opportunity to train in
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🏴☠️ Why, in the name of all things holy, do some GPs allow “senior” Physician Assistants to supervise junior PAs in GP land?. ⭕️ You've flooded your surgery with 11 PAs. How can 4 GPs provide adequate and safe supervision on top of their duties, seeing one patient every 10
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🔴 Physician Assistants strike again from the wards,.An F1 Doctor was forced by PA to prescribe Abx to penicillin allergic patient 💀. ⛔️PAs target junior Doctors as they’re less likely to resist.⛔️Enabled by some consultants.⛔️Doctors must refuse to px for PAs without seeing pt
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🔴This Physician Assistant genuinely believes they're on a par with actual Trauma and Orthopaedics Doctors. ⭕️They are allergic to discussing cases with the specialists because it hurts their ego. ⭕️This gentleman might have a bent finger forever as a result of PAs’ recklessness
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☢️ Hi .@NewcastleHosps.@UniofNewcastle. How are Physician Assistants allowed to lecture students at University with “PENDING” MSc qualification?? . I hope you don’t allow the Medical Registrar (PENDING) to lead cardiac arrest calls 💀☠️. This is bizarre. Thanks
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🏴☠️ Hello @UCLan ,. Medical students are seriously concerned that one of your Physician Assistant students is boasting about attending medical school on Instagram, which is quite misleading and deceitful. ☠️. ⭕️ This sheila is also not happy about attending lectures. If they don’t
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🏴☠️ When it comes to managing critically unwell patients in ED Resus, this Physician Assistant is in a league of her own. She is boasting about being allowed to insert chest drains to relieve TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX 💀💀☠️. ⭕️ PAs should not fiddle with organs inside the chest, as
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📛I was fast bleeped to Reddit to have a look at this:. A Physician Assistant is illegally prescribing and impersonating a Doctor 💀. ⭕️Isn’t it a criminal offence to do so?. ⭕️Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards(DOLS) must not be advised by a PA. Med Student should report it
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🆘 Dear @Bruneluni,. A Medical student is quite concerned that your Physician Associate student is putting patient safety at risk by not labelling blood samples immediately after collecting them. 💀☠️. ⭕️This sheila should know that such practices can be dangerous, especially
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🔴The lack of insight is staggering. This dangerous PA believes that experienced PAs can safely perform hip/knee replacements and Robotic surgeries 💀☠️. ⭕️He would also give priority to PAs over new Doctors when it comes to employment. ⭕️Imagine having a bunch of senior PAs
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🆘 Hello Derriford @UHP_NHS . There is a strong evidence that a Physician Associate is dealing with airway emergencies such as Epiglottitis ☠️. ⭕️Inserting grommets for kiddies with glue ear?. ⭕️Learning on patients and removing tonsils?. This cheap labour plan will backfire
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🔴 I recently watched the graduation ceremony for new Doctors graduating from @StGeorgesUni . As usual, they shoved PAs down everyone's throat, and I had to watch PAs graduating before the medical students. The number of PAs graduating was shocking—literally more than 30
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🆘 I need some bleach eyedrops after seeing this:. A Physician Assistant saw a patient with STROKE symptoms in A&E and discharged the poor dude with a diagnosis of ANXIETY 💀☠️☠️. ⭕️ This patient re-presented with another stroke 2 days later and was left with lifelong disability
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🔴Can someone crack this for me:. A Physician Assistant, who is meant to be freeing up/assisting Doctors, refused to do an ECG for a patient with a proper heart attack 💀☠️. ⭕️They believed the lie that they would work at “Registrar” level. ⭕️⬆️Ego. ⭕️Total waste of taxpayers
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🔴 Hi @StGeorgesTrust,. The public are deeply concerned that you’ve got two Physician Assistants working in Neurosurgery, and it’s unclear whether they are performing or assisting in Neurosurgical operations on patients. 💀☠️. ⭕️ Many Doctors have to pursue PhD studies in
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🔴 Hello @StGeorgesUni,. Your Physician Assistants are boasting about working in plastic/breast surgery while junior doctors are stuck on the wards drafting discharge letters 💀. ⭕️ There is something strange about this university promoting the PA role while neglecting medical
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🆘 It is quite concerning that Physician Associates are listed under “DOCTORS” at a Birmingham GP surgery. ⭕️ It’s unclear whether this was an innocent mistake, but patients might be misled into thinking that PAs can do what GPs do. ⭕️ I have also never heard of an “Advanced
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📛A 1st year PA student strikes again. She is allowed to lecture students on arterial blood gas ???. The standards of education in this country are no longer robust
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🏴☠️ Physician Assistants strike again from the Cardiology department @WestSuffolkNHS . This PA has progressed very quickly from seeing patients on the ward with “junior doctors” to acting as a Cardiology Registrar, reviewing inpatient referrals within just 1.5 years!. ⭕️ He is
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🔴Aesthetic PAs are totally out of control. This one is injecting Botox into the trapezius muscle/neck with the risk of causing Accessory nerve damage 💀☠️. ⭕️The sheila in the picture might end up with paralysis of her shoulder if the nerve is damaged. ⭕️PAs know nothing
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🏴☠️ Riddle me this:. A Physician Assistant is introducing herself as a “GP” to her mates at a social event. ⭕️ Don’t you guys know that this is a protected title by law, and it is illegal to claim to be a GP while you are a PA?. ⭕️ You are also drowning yourself with different
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@gmcuk Why don’t you show professional courtesy to Doctors by addressing them as “Dr. X Y” on the register?. You deliberately avoid this to flatten the hierarchy/ avoid hurting the feelings of physician assistants. Get a grip.
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