Five percent of PA respondents said they question physician treatment decisions often, while 52 percent question them occasionally, according to the survey of more than 770 practicing PAs. The report was released Dec. 2.
Thirty-nine percent of PAs said they rarely question treatment decisions, and 3 percent said they never do.
On the other hand, 80 percent of physicians said they questioned their physician assistants’ treatment decisions occasionally or often.
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