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Please explain why you are interested in being a Physician Assistant. (can you connect it to the Covid 19)
Being a physician assistant:
There are some common as well as extraordinary reasons to be a physician assistant. Common reasons may include it is easy to become a physician assistant than a certified doctor because the study for physician assistant requires a less time than the study to become a doctor. Although Physician assistants job vacancies are more than of a doctors. In many clinics to save cost and time busy doctors always lookout for trained and experienced assistants to attend their non critical cases. So more job prospects are there for Physician Assistant. Physician Assistants have shorter and regular working hours. So no more working load is there in this profession. You can select your working shift or timing by discussion with doctor. So they can work without having too much spill over to their off duty hours. Physician Assistant gets paid well nowadays. They might not get the massive salaries like a doctor but they are still compensated good amount. This profession suited with some people's personality and style too much that they feel more relaxed and satisfied with this than any higher paid profession like a doctor. This profession is rewarding too in our society. In some extraordinary reasons are you have to only work for patient health doesn't need to be greedy. In case of doctors, they bear a lot of expenditure on their studies so doctors are little greedy to cope up or stabilize their expenditure by works on extra assignments. Like a government doctor open his private clinic and give extra time their for money. But in case of Physician Assistant you will be satisfied because there is not more costs involved in study of Physician Assistant like in doctor study. Physician Assistant attach to patients more because of his assignments and when people got healthy then they appreciate Physician Assistant more because of personal attachment.
Physician Assistants and COVID-19
Nowadays in the time of Coronavirus outbreak, Physician Assistants are the frontliners with putting Personal Protective Equipments on their body. Almost all Countries are feeling like a War zone. Where the Physician Assistant are like the soldiers in front of an enemy (COVID-19). They are fighting a war with this unseen enemy. They also have fear in their mind that they also can get infected. Their families are attached to them. But they are and will fighting because this is their satisfaction,their work. We all are Worrier as the requirement of the situation in country,like a industry worker give his part in economy but this situation is complicated and dangerous. Chances to become infected is more and in many countries we saw that these medical professionals give their life on the sake of their work and duty to save others and to provide them best healthcare.
Thats why this is rewarding in society. This profession will also got more appritiation due to their duty of fighting this unseen enemy.