Ha, well, I'm not aware of any "bimbo who barely passed an online community college basic chemistry course" practicing as PAs.....is there some variation in knowledge, skills, and ability...yep, you betcha there is, just as with physicians. I know physicians I would trust with my daughters life without question....and I know more than a few that I wouldn't trust to treat my dogs.....
I was a corpsman in the Navy stationed with the Marines Second Recon Battalion in Desert Storm. There is something that I learned there that the siloed educational system in health care right now doesn't teach...and it creates this useless friction.....esprit de corps. We are in the trenches together. I can go ahead and just try to fumble my way through thing OR, I can work with partners that truly value my education and skills and want to see me properly trained to do those procedures.
I think that is likely the next obstacle to tackle and have heard this discussed at multiple policy meetings in the US. Health Education system reform. PAs and MDs should be taking most courses together. Not all, of course not, but when possible....
This already happens of course. A fair number of PA schools are located at Medical Schools, and they will often take classes with their MD colleagues. I wonder if there is a different attitude among MD's graduating from those schools, versus siloed educational models. That would be an interesting study actually.
Why do you keep giving us your resume?