Sue Chadwick💙

Hi @wesstreeting I know you didn't create this mess, but if you don't step in an end the scandal of Physician Associates, this will be an ugly part of your legacy Susanna Reid, "If someone says to you I'm the Physician Associate who's going to be treating you, would you know what that even means?" Ed Balls, "You might think they're a qualified doctor. But they aren't" Emily was misdiagnosed twice by a Physician Associate, then died Emily's mother, "The PA was unsupervised and she saw her twice, prescribed a drug for her which did not help.. Emily thought she was a doctor, we believed she was a doctor" Emily's father, "Physician Associate sounds even better than Junior Doctor.. It suggests someone who is highly trained, highly competent" Susanna Reid, "There are also Anaesthesia Associates, aren't there.. What do they do?" Dr Richard Marks, "When they were first launched they were called assistants.. Everyone knew what that meant.. Then they changed the name, which blurred it.. And increased the number of them.. So more patients will come across them"