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PAs - An important
part of your marketing strategy?
Physician Assistants practice medicine as a team with
their supervising physician
 Exercise
autonomy in medical decision making
Provide a comprehensive range of diagnostic and therapeutic services,
including
performing physical exams, taking patient histories, ordering
and interpreting
laboratory tests, diagnosing and treating illnesses, suturing
lacerations, assisting in
surgery, writing prescriptions in 47 states, and providing
patient education and
counseling
May also work in educational, research, and administrative settings
3 Reasons Why You
Can’t Afford to Ignore PAs:
1)
Prescribing authority - PAs write more than 225 million prescriptions a
year
PAs have prescriptive privileges in
47 states, of which 41 allow for
prescription of
controlled substances
2)
PAs play a crucial role in patient care
PAs provide more than 183 million
patient visits a year
PAs make hundreds of millions of OTC recommendations a year
Many PAs practice in medically
underserved areas (rural and inner city)
3)
PAs are an increasingly important part of the healthcare team
The PA profession has grown from a handful of graduates in the 1960’s
to more than
50,000 in clinical practice today
4,500 PA students graduate every year
45% of PAs work in primary care
20% of PAs work in surgery and surgical specialties
PAs are often the front-line in patient care and may be the sole health
care
provider in a community
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