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Nurse practitioners Vs Physician assistants: how do they differ?

In a recent episode of Crikey’s Diary of a Surgeon, Professor Guy Maddern wrote about the potential of physician assistants to help relieve pressures on our health care system. Physician assistants have been an integral part of the US health system for many decades.
His piece prompted some queries along the lines, what is the difference [...]

Revealing the diary of a surgeon … and more

Health bureaucracies and their public affairs units, ministerial staffers and health service managers make a powerful effort to stop people who work within the public health system from engaging in public debate.
On one hand, this is understandable – if everyone was hitting the headlines, complaining about the lack of resourcing to their particular area, then [...]