You need to make the distinction between their role on paper (e.g. what we are told their role officially is) and their actual role on the wards in 2023.
In principal, a PA is an excellent idea. They should basically act as little clinical secretaries for their doctor (remember - they were initially called physician assistants). They should document what the doctor wants, take bloods the doctor orders ect. This is what the government told the medical field in the UK 10 years ago. Things are very different know!
However, the mundane nature of this job soon bore down upon the PAs. They wanted to specialise into different areas of clinical medicine and become more engaged in medicine rather than simple administration - because it gives PAs the impression that they are like doctors. PAs have a huge inferiority complex. That is why we always hear of PAs presenting themselves as doctors to patients, or using deliberately ambiguous titles, or by changing their names from assistant to associate. NHS management also actively encourage the increasing scope of practice of PAs simply because PAs are cheaper than doctors in the long run...hence reducing overheads, and compensating for a shortage of real doctors.
They do not have the intellectual capacity or the motivation to deliver patient care equivalent to that of a doctor. If they did, they would not have done a sh*tty PA course at the university of Lancashire. If they did have the competence, they would have gone to Oxford to study MBBS, with an MSc intercalation, and then train in orthopaedics/plastics/ENT and become a real doctor.
PAs do not undergo rotational training. So they spend their whole life in the same crumbling DGH. As such, they begin to identify patterns amongst patients in that particular ward. They simply perform pattern recognition, without properly understanding the medicine behind. E.g. the consultant yesterday gave xxx treatment to Dorris because Dorris has the following symptoms yyy. Dave presented today with yyy, so lets give them treatment xxx like the consultant did yesterday. But applying such an algorithmic thought process requires understanding of the nuances in the flowchart....and PAs don't have the medical knowledge to make those nuances. So when Boris, an anomalous patient, shows up, the PA thinks she knows what she is doing. Look at me look at me im like a doctor, and then fuc*s up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-66168798If you only get AAA in A Levels, let alone a B, you should not be prancing around with a stethoscope on your neck pretending your a doctor. So dont tell me Sharron from Essex, who did a biomedical degree at the University of Colchester after doing 2 BTECs or getting AAB in her A levels, and then spent 2 years surrounded with other Sharrons in PA school, is equivalent to an F2.
*****ng hell they **** me off.