physician associate

[fi-zish-uhn-uh-soh-shee-it]

noun

plural

physician associates 

1. physician's assistant.

Example Sentences

She died, aged 30, after being seen twice by a physician associate.

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Mrs Chesterton told the BBC that when she found out her daughter had been seen by a physician associate, she did not know what one was.

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Ms Chesterton's father Brendan said: "It's against protocol that Emily was seen twice by a physician associate for the same issue, and she shouldn't have been prescribing."

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She was seen by the physician associate after she called her GP practice, in Crouch End in north London, complaining of pain in her calf, which had become hard.

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Dr Karen Henderson, assistant coroner for Surrey, called the term physician associate "misleading" and said there was a "lack of public knowledge" that they were not medically qualified.

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