The Physician Associate (originally called Physician Assistant but given a posher title by the politicians early on) is the medical equivalent of the PCSO in the police force, i.e. a cheaper body in place of someone fully qualified and able to do the job. Trouble is whereas the PCSO is merely a hopeless jobsworth who is often the object of humour and derision and justifiably so, when the PA fucks up it is no laughing matter and sometimes their mistake is literally deadly. The link to such an event is just one from a whole list of such now available on Google with only the most rudimentary search.
Regular readers will know our elder is a hospital doctor. Her advice is simple and straight forward; if you go to A&E be accompanied and ask the medic allocated to you; “Are you a Doctor?” The only acceptable answer is YES.
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This won’t be a problem for very long.
These Physician Associates will soon be replaced by the dozens of doctors that turn up every day in rubber boats.
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1200 of.them yesterday.
And yet no mention of this on the BBC news website this morning.
How odd.
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🪳🪳🪳🪳🪳
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Once you’ve used up space by slagging off Trump, reporting alleged Israeli atrocities in Gaza and wanking off over Dr Who, there’s no room for proper news, clearly.
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1200 FUCKING HUNDRED….🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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That’s the country we have become.
Fake policemen, fake doctors and most telling of all fake leaders..
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I think that the problem may be that people have to wait weeks to see their own doctors.
If you think that you are ill then you have little choice other than to go to the hospital, even if you know that you will have to wait several hours to be seen.
With so many people turning up in A&E departments with non urgent conditions there has to be a way of assessing them, so they use staff with limited training and a posh title.
The situation with doctors surgeries needs to be sorted out first.
Why is their such a long wait to see a family doctor?
Answers on a postcard please.
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Mrs Maskinback is a GP but currently unemployed and cannot find a post. Practice managers earn more by employing PAs than GPs. The governments are fully behind this insanity.
The practice managers reckon they are underfunded and by employing more PAs, it is the only way for them to survive.
I’m not sure that even when the deaths and lawsuits start rolling in, anything will change. We have seen it in all other areas of life. This is the new way of the 21st century. Better embrace it and hope for the best.
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Good morning to you and your good lady Paul.
I didn’t know and I’m sure many cunters weren’t aware that GPs are unable to find employment while it’s so difficult to get an appointment to see a GP. So I’ve been on the phone to the daughter to find out what’s going on. No surprise it comes down to funding. Social care is massively underfunded resulting immediately in hospital beds being taken up by people who don’t need to be there. There is massive waste and duplication in the NHS. If half the admin positions were abolished it’s not even the case that patients wouldn’t notice the difference, services to patients would in fact improve. Armies of people shift paper, pretty well write their own jobs and spend lots of time on pointless meetings where precisely nothing is achieved. These useless beings are also paid eye-watering salaries and pensions and unlike the medical staff carry virtually no responsibility at all. The daughter refuses to attend twice-weekly meetings she is supposed to as they serve no purpose and waste time she could spend with patients. Contracts for things like IT services are paid for with large lump sums up front and no track is kept of the efficiency of their implementation, the money is just handed over and it’s goodbye.
One of the manifestations of this nonsensical system is that we have unemployed GPs while there is huge demand for their services.
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Well said Sir. Agreefully
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If I had to go to A&E I wouldn’t ask ‘Are you a doctor?’.
I’d ask ‘Are you British?’.
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@geordie…the chances of that being the case are now bordering on winning euro millions without a 🎫 …oh doctor we’re in trouble 🎵
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Its a hypochondriacs dream, coming up with fake deaths.
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Flush these fake “Doctors” down the 🚽🚽
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You go to a a GP and you get to see the practice nurse, if you do get to see a GP they’ll tell you you’ve got a cold.
Case 1.
36 year old fit healthy lad, non smoker. Repeated calls and visits ti his GP over a persistent cough.
GP tells him you’ve got Covid, oh it’s just a persistent cough it will go. After 4 months eventually sends him to see a consultant.
Stage 4 lung cancer, caught it too late, now dead leaving a young wife and 3 kids.
Case 2.
Ongoing stomach issues, pain, vomiting and losss of appetite. GP, you’ve got an ulcer. After 3 or 4 months of things getting worse the fella takes himself to A&E where they do scans etc. diagnosis is Pancreatic Cancer. That battles still being fought.
The fact GP’s are acting as gate keepers doesn’t help but now the government has installed a second line of defence before you get the opportunity to see a real doctor.
Chances are if you do eventually see a real doctor it will be some cunt who can’t speak English and would prefer to treat you by sacrificing a chicken.
Oh and then there’s the pharmacist who mis calculates the dosage……
Our NHS, same odds as the Lottery.
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Problem we have, is getting past the GP receptionist…!!
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My doctors receptionist is a very cheerful camp male who cannot help enough.
Quite worrying really.
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Geoffrey Palmer once sung.
Doctor, doctor give me the news
I’ve got a bad case of labour blues
No pill’s gonna cure my ill
I’ve got a bad case of loathing you.
No wonder he became addicted to love..
Still I imagine that smoothed face pòof streaking will be handing out inflation busting pay rises in the next few months.
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UFO’s Doctor doctor please, is more to the point.
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Wasn’t Geoffrey Palmer an actor? Butterflies.
I think you meant Robert Palmer.
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And the rise and fall of reggie perrin..
That was intentional Paul.
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Didn’t his brother Arnold Palmer often play around?
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His names David.
Camp David
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” Let me through!
Im a physician associate”
Doesnt carry much gravitas does it?
By physician associate ie-Somalian donkey herder..
Or nigerian oineapple saleman.
Your chances of survival are practically nil.
And i only came in with a itchy arse.
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Itchy arse? Sounds to me like you need a bit of fist aid Mis, before you get seen by a professional.
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Itchy arse is quite common in New Mills, something to do with the after dark activities in secluded car parks 😉
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New Mills rings a bell. There used to be a company called K. R. Whiston of New Mills, Stockport. A company I worked with 40 plus years ago dealt with them, and they used to produce a fat catalogue every month full of metals and fittings. I don’ suppose they are around now. I remember, on every catalogue they sent it said “See my cat, for this and that”. Sorry I digress. With age comes anec-dotage
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The Physician Associate is the A&E equivalent of the fucking receptionist at the GP practice. Call any GP surgery and ask to see a doctor and the fucking typist will ask you what is wrong with you. They think their ability to use a word processor means they are qualified to triage. Ask the cunts where they studied medicine? The self righteous outrage will scorch your ears. As for doctor/patient confidentiality, where the fucking hell did that get lost?
The NHS is a marxist organisation that makes lists of people needing treatment, tries to put everyone on fucking statins, and sends out DIY arse scraping kits. Cunts.
Good morning, everyone. Keep taking the pills.
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Doctor/patient confidentiality? Don’t hold your breath on that one Twenty mate. Literally millions of people have access to your medical records. I’ve posted before of a woman I know who worked for the NHS at the lowest level in admin and routinely checked the medical record of her son’s latest girlfriend.
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Here’s a novel idea..
Instead of :
Assistants we hire property trained :
Doctors.
Teachers.
Police officers.
etc…
Nah perhaps not, costs to much… I’ll bet waitie Katie and Charlie the chimp don’t get foisted off with a FUCKING ASSISTANT…!!!
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And you can be sure Doc that if you advised an MP was to ring 112 or ask a pharmacist he would think you were fucking joking.
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The time to start getting worried is when a male proctologist, wearing very heavy make up and lipstick approaches you with his apparatus. That will be the signal to show Student Nurse Nancy Streeting has become a Physician Associate,
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Ive started my own treatment room.
Few saws out of the shed, wiped down with alcohol
Breeding leeches
And making my own bandages from odd socks.
Ive got a 12 month waiting list and taken on 2 new doctors.
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Ive not seen a doctor in years.
And wouldnt let anyone administer medical treatment to me who
1) has lips that look like theyve been inflated with a foot pump
2) is dressed as Darth vader or zorro.
3) speaks in clicks and whistles
4) hasnt yet taken off a RNLI life jacket
5) has stubble, ale gut, deep voice but says their name is Daphne.
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Fuck the NHS
If you can afford it go private, I had an op a few years ago
White consultant – English
White anaesthetist – English
White nurses – all English
Not an umbongo, p*ki or channel doctor anywhere.
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Steady on chaps. It’s a shit job for shit money.
Physician Associate
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Salary: £43,018.00 to £48,884.00 a year
Date posted: 27 May 2025
Closing date: 23 June 2025
Contract type: Permanent
Working pattern: Part time
This isn’t far off the wage of a resident doctor, for some roles.
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Salary: £41,750 to £54,468 a year
Date posted: 29 May 2025
Closing date: 12 June 2025
Contract type: Permanent
Working pattern: Flexible working, Full time
To become a Physician Associate (PA), you’ll need a first degree in a bioscience-related subject, complete a two-year postgraduate diploma or master’s program in Physician Associate Studies, and then sit a national exam. You’ll also need to register with the Physician Associate Managed Voluntary Register (PAMVR).
Maybe we just need to train more doctors in this country. Only accept medical degrees from the UK or at least require foreign doctors to sit out exams. A little research shows that PA’s need to be pretty well qualified but they are not to the standard of qualification required by a doctor.
You can replace doctors with people trained to an inferior standard without expecting inferior results.
The reasons given for foreign doctors is we can’t train enough doctors fast enough, the reason for PAs is the same.
The actual reason is cramming a million extra people into the system year after year. Anyone who says immigration hasn’t broken the NHS is a liar or a fool.
Next time they are in hospital being diagnosed by a temu doctor they should reflect on this.
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Well said Mr Vomit.
The collapse in standards across the board is due to unnatural population growth,stimulated by liars and faggōts.
Good morning.
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This kind of open door ‘have a go’ attitude could be a godsend for the deviants among us.
“I’m not a proper gynaecologist love, but I’ll have a fucking good look for ya”.
And besides. If I took my dog to a bloke who ‘knows a bit’ for treatment, I’d have my collar felt.
Yet it’s ok for an apprentice to fuck about with a human being.
Still, if it keeps just one illegal immigrant housed etc, etc.
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