-: Physician's Assistant was the
right choice for me.
The schooling is shorter than medical school.
You earn a masters degree,
and what's different about a Nurse Practitioner
and a Physician is they have to choose
their field of practice
vs a Physician Assistant
is trained in all of it.
So, anytime during my career I could stop
in Family Medicine and all of a sudden
become a Surgical PA,
or I could do that for a year
and then become a Dermatology PA.
So, I can really change up
my career if I get bored,
but I think a lot of people, once they find
their niche they typically stay,
but we have that freedom to move.
And so that really attracted me to that area.
But I think a challenging part is
when you want to do something
for a patient and you can't,
or you don't have the resources
and you know that you could help them,
but it's not possible.
Whether it's they're lacking insurance,
or they can't afford to pay
for a test that they need.
I think that's hard, but it's fun because you can
be creative and you really have
to think outside the box about how
you can get that for that patient.
So we use Social Workers,
we use Community Health Workers
to supplement those things
that we need to do for them.
And I think at the end of the day
we typically can get that done
for the patient.
Although, it is not that easy.