I go to the doctors office - one would assume I want to see the doctor.
No ... I see the Nurse Practicioner. OK, so this time it was no big problem. I like this woman, she's good, and I just needed a referral to a dermatologist to have some perhaps pre-cancerous growth lopped off my body.
But - Then, (while I am still standing next to "Mary" the Nurse Practicioner) I ask to make an appointment for my yearly physical (for which I am 2 years overdue) and they ask me "Did you want to have the Doctor or Mary do your physical?"
*squirm* and I almost whisper "May I please have that appointment with the MD?" while not looking at Mary.
This gets even better:
Having worked with lots of PAs at the hospital I would have to agree. We certainly had some wonderful ones, but we also had some bad ones. Now when you consider that most docs have say maybe 10 years of school (at least) and they miss lots of stuff with their patients, now take the PA who has what? 4 - 6 years of school . . . I'd guess they will miss a lot more - and okay the MD oversees what the PA does - but they can only know what the PA tells them . . . .