In regard to PAs, I get examined at a pain management clinic which has two pain doctors. Unfortunately, they have probably hundreds of patients so there are a number of PAs on board and, as a long term patient, they are whom I mostly see at my appointments. My pain issues have been with me for close to twenty years and every year it seems that more PAs are involved at pain management centers as well as at all the other doctors offices at which I’m seen. I’m continually praying that one of these days my doctors and PAs will come across a way to cure my pain.

Interesting that you question a PA. Mine has been more attentive to my overall health than any MD has ever been! I live in a small county where medical resources are scarce. I believe she made a mistake by prescribing Suboxone, I am fortunate to have researched and having been a nurse, she listens and respects what little knowledge I have. Oh yes, we have a pain management MD who in all honesty, is quite impressed with his own knowledge and is unwilling to believe that his patients may have just a bit of knowledge!