How to Use physician assistant in a Sentence

physician assistant

noun

• The physician assistant applied a dab of skin adhesive to the wound, then covered it with a Band-Aid and a piece of gauze.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2020
• Her doctor and a physician assistant flushed her ear four times.
  — Kristine Phillips, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2018
• Since entering the race, her ties to USC — dating back to her time as a physician assistant — have also led to some bumps in the road.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2022
• The physician assistant who runs the island’s sole health clinic.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
• One would allow physician assistants to authorize the use of the drug for patients.
  — USA TODAY, 19 June 2019
• Two emergency-room doctors and two physician assistants will be on the trail, twice the number from last year.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
• The suit says Williams continues to work at PeaceHealth as a physician assistant.
  — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2020
• Douglas Hickok, 57, a physician assistant in and out of uniform, was the first service member to die of the coronavirus.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2020
• Doctors and a physician assistant had made the rounds earlier that day.
  — Ellen Gabler, Sheri Fink and Vivian Yee, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
• Arceneaux is a bone cancer survivor who was treated at St. Jude's as a child and now works there as a physician assistant.
  — Mina Kaji, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2021
• But in late March, a worried mother calling on behalf of her physician assistant son to get a free room became the norm.
  — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• But the next morning, Allen received a call from a physician assistant: an ultrasound had revealed a blood clot in one of Stephens’s lungs.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• Inside the van, a physician assistant bandaged the open wounds on Matthew Lombardo’s calves.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• And often only the doctor — not a nurse, nor a physician assistant, nor a staff member — is allowed to address that call for help.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
• The company didn’t explain the figure, which is more than the average cost of tuition for a year of physician assistant school.
  — H. Claire Brown, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• From there, the practice continued for the Old Town couple and is now a daily routine outside the hours of her physician assistant job.
  — Maya Mokh, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2021
• The collision was so severe that the man had no pulse and wasn’t breathing after the crash, according to a physician assistant who had been riding on the trail and stopped.
  — Andrew Kenney, The Denver Post, 26 June 2019
• After finishing her exam, the physician assistant sent him to the lab.
  — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• About an hour later, a physician assistant returned and pulled the MRI results up on a computer screen.
  — Kerry Cromwell, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2018
• Tami grew up in Chicago and settled in Louisville after a career in the Navy, serving as a physician assistant.
  — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Jenn is a 26-year-old physician assistant student from New Jersey.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2024
• Bass, who was a physician assistant before coming to Congress, has made health care a focus of her career.
  — Max Berley, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2020
• Arceneaux, 29, was treated for childhood cancer at St. Jude and now works there as a physician assistant.
  — John McCarthy, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2021
• His first pick to accompany him on the flight was Hayley Arceneaux, a 29-year-old from Memphis who works as a physician assistant.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
• As a physician assistant for the Army who did eight deployments in less than 10 years, Fisher many times saw how such training can be nothing short of life-saving.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2018
• His state job in Illinois did not require a physician assistant license.
  — Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
• Now a physician assistant at St. Jude, Arceneaux took up an old photo of herself — bald from treatment for bone cancer at age 10.
  — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• According to the report, Brunton Davis is a nurse and a man identified as Carsyn's father is a physician assistant.
  — Allyson Chiu, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2020
• This season's leading lady, Jenn Tran, a 26-year-old physician assistant student, sent three men home last week, with two rose ceremonies occurring in the two-hour episode.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2024
• One of the biggest barriers to post-discharge care for many patients can be lack of easy access to a doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024