How to Use physician's assistant in a Sentence
physician's assistant
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Dad was ready with the lie when the physician's assistant asked.
—Seija Rankin, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2021
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Heather Setzler, a physician's assistant from Raleigh, N.C., started her drive at 1 a.m. to be at the court.
—Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2020
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The physician's assistant assured Lotz that the pain would recede over time, the lawsuit said.
—AZCentral.com, 12 June 2021
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Today, Arcenaux is 29 years old and working as a physician's assistant in the hospital that saved her life.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2021
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Patients' temperatures were checked on each eight-hour shift, and for the last time Tuesday evening by a physician's assistant who made rounds.
—chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
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On Tuesday, Kentucky lost a 58-year-old physician's assistant in Louisville who fought for his life for six weeks on a ventilator.
—Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2020
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Then came an ultrasound, during which the physician's assistant plunged a wand inside my vaginal canal, poking around to take a look at my ovaries.
—Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 20 Oct. 2022
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One of the passengers was Hayley Arceneaux, a 29-year-old cancer survivor who works as a physician's assistant at St. Jude.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 19 Sep. 2021
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She is set to play basketball for the University of Buffalo in the fall with hopes of studying to become a physician's assistant.
—Meredith Spelbring, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2020
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Well, the physician's assistant said his left ear was irritated but not totally inflamed and his right ear was clogged.
—Kim Fusaro, Woman's Day, 17 June 2011
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For physician's assistant Christy Carmichael, her decision to get the vaccine made everyone gasp.
—Sara Sidner, CNN, 28 Dec. 2020
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Doran, a Pittsburgh native, worked as a physician's assistant, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2021
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The test must be administered by a healthcare professional such as a physician's assistant or a school nurse.
—USA Today, 24 Sep. 2020
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That report was submitted by a physician's assistant and reviewed by a prison doctor as part of Madoff's bid to reduce his sentence.
—Victoria Albert, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2020
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During the demonstration, a physician's assistant approached a pretend patient in a truck and asked questions about his symptoms and travel.
—Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2020
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The Washington state resident is struggling to pay his mortgage after losing his job as a physician's assistant earlier this month and is now on the hook for $6,600 in house payments.
—CBS News, 28 Apr. 2020
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This kind of set up isn’t uncommon, med spas and salons with nurses or physician's assistants on staff regularly offer fillers on their menu of services.
—Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 24 Aug. 2018
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Some pharmacy groups have chafed against the required authority, like a nurse practitioner or physician's assistant, who must prescribe the pills on-site.
—Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2022
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All the doctors failed to recognize the connection and thanks to a physician's assistant recommending a bone density exam, it was discovered.
—Rod Berger, Forbes, 2 June 2022
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In September, the Inspiration4 launch sent four civilians (a physician's assistant, an aerospace worker, a professor and a billionaire) into orbit.
—Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2021
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The cellmate quickly got the attention of a Border Patrol agent, followed shortly by a physician's assistant who attempted a single chest compression.
—chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
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Four civilians — a billionaire, a physician's assistant, an aerospace worker, and an educator and trained pilot — will be launching into space on Wednesday evening.
—Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2021
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The next morning, the couple went to the center, and, according to the lawsuit, a chiropractor and a physician's assistant working at the center treated Lotz's shoulder pain with laser light therapy and prescribed narcotic medication to Lotz.
—AZCentral.com, 12 June 2021
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The two settled in Fairview Heights, Illinois, where Schneider most recently worked as a senior software engineer for a financial services payment platform, while his wife works as a physician's assistant in pain management.
—Christina Maxouris, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
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Your symptoms will be evaluated by a physician, nurse-practitioner or physician's assistant.
—Ashley Catherine Woods For Ascension, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2018
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Later that night, home administrators said, a physician's assistant checked the patients and none were overheated and the building temperature never exceeded 80 degrees.
—CBS News, 21 Sep. 2017
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The medical professional can be a nurse practitioner, doctor or physician's assistant with six months' experience in a related field.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
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Keravive is offered by a number of dermatologists and plastic surgeons, though in many offices, an aesthetician, nurse, or physician's assistant trained in HydraFacial techniques may be the one who administers the Keravive treatment.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 25 Mar. 2022
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Weslaco police reports obtained by ProPublica say the physician's assistant quickly determined Hernandez was dead.
—chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
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Medical qualifications can include a medical doctor license, doctor of chiropractic license, naturopathic doctor license, nurse practitioner license or physician's assistant license.
—AZCentral.com, 11 June 2021
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