a PA for Vernon, BC (continued)...

We seem to have dodged a bullet, so to speak. As it turns out, we aren't in a panic to get an experienced PA for Vernon immediately BUT we are definitely interested in someone who would like to spend a year in Vernon relieving a maternity leave there. You'll see the job posted on the Interior Health website www.interiorhealth.ca Please feel free to give me a ring at (250) 862-4300 (ext. 7273). I look forward to hearing from you.

lung mass - image of the month

This unfortunate middle-aged woman was found to have developed this lung mass a number of years after having had a skin malignant melanoma excised. The mass invaded a lobar bronchus and compressed a number of peri-hilar vessels; together causing local atalectasis (symptoms of which prompted the chest X-ray).

Dr. Smith, continued...

From a more PA-centric view, what harm did Dr. Smith cause to those who assisted him? As PAs, we learn most of what we learn (and tenaciously cling to it as if it's gospel) from those who we assist: the pathologists. I'm sure the PAs who assisted Dr. Smith are searching their soles and are wondering just what to believe. I sincerely hope that there are no PAs who are involved to the extent that they are found culpible in any of the cases in question; are required to appear at the Gouge commission or are forced to defend their own actions during Dr. Smith's infamous "reign."