Physician Assistant

I don’t have an office; I work in the emergency room half the month and the hospital-medicine floor the other half and I’m always on the run. What I always have are comfortable shoes and power bars — and my cell phone so I can keep up with my little one’s adventures while I’m at work

A bby Mehler 28 is an emergency room and hospitalist physician assistant at the University of Colorado Hospital in Denver. She’s been practicing for five years.

Some people think being a PA is the way to sort of be a doctor but with much less school; I always tell them

the “much-less-school” aspect impacts the practice of course but a PA won’t get by with a “much-less-knowledge” excuse! As a PA after you complete three years of school you’re done; and you jump right in and begin practicing unlike MDs who after four years of school have three to five years of residency.