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Sidebar - Whose Patient Is It?
Statutes & Stethoscopes: Sidebar - Whose Patient Is It?
A hospitalist asked me a question I hadn't thought about before: he has no say in hiring the physician assistants he works with, but his name is on their paperwork as supervising physician and he signs off on their charts. So when is he on the hook for what the PA does? The honest answer is more often than most physicians think.
In this Sidebar I walk through Pennsylvania's Medical Practice Act (the supervising physician "shall be responsible" for the PA's medical services), the State Board of Medicine regulations that make the PA the…
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