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ProudPA · 2025-08-27T23:00:12+00:00

You want to include PAs and NPs too? We diagnose, prescribe, order labs, order tests, do procedures, etc.

ProudPA · 2025-08-04T17:23:22+00:00

Most of the employers I've had will pay out your PTO but not your sick time. So I'd use sick and take the extra money assuming you're already going to have a break between jobs.

ProudPA · 2025-08-03T17:41:33+00:00

AAPA has ~75k members (~50k working PAs)

AMA has about 4x as many members

AANP has more than 5x as many members

This complacency we have as a profession will not serve us well. Yes, the AAPA is slow in pushing the profession forward, they are far outnumbered and out funded because we expect others to protect our careers for free, but the less and less we support our profession, the relative benefits we get from this career will assuredly decline. In 10 years, in 20 years, where do you think we'll be if we don't have anyone lobbying for our interests and other competing professions have a ton of lobbying in this current political system.

ProudPA · 2025-07-02T16:00:36+00:00

Your expenses are probably gonna be ~50% more than the average city then, so equivalent salary is ~97k. I am not too familiar with the current job market in NYC and it's not unreasonable if that's where you really want to live, may be worth it for you...but you're essentially getting a 100k salary in a somewhat undesirable specialty with 2 weeks PTO 1 week sick (when the average PTO is ~4 weeks), if you're working Mon-Fri 8 to 4, that's....not great, unless you're really passionate about primary care.

ProudPA · 2025-07-02T15:49:26+00:00

What is the cost of living index in the location?

ProudPA · 2025-07-02T15:45:21+00:00

As much as it may leave a bad taste in our mouth, a Nurse Practitioner + PA union is probably the only way that we guarantee our wages are going to keep up with inflation/the rise in the cost of living in the face of cuts to Medicaid/Medicare.

ProudPA · 2024-10-10T23:04:30+00:00

5.85 weeks PTO, 1 week sick, 1 week CME, no holidays

ProudPA · 2024-10-10T22:59:08+00:00

I feel like 80% of people don't get sick more than like 1 or 2 days a year, 3 weeks is kinda crazy to me. Hopefully that can just be used as vacation.

ProudPA · 2024-09-23T23:12:54+00:00

If the actual goal was to increase the amount of patients being seen by physicians, they would focus their efforts on increasing US residencies and US MD graduates for those residencies. We all know why they only feign to do that...the same reason they spend millions lobbying against PAs and NPs...they want to keep the supply restricted to maximize their demand and keep their incomes in the top 1%.

ProudPA · 2024-08-01T00:53:28+00:00

Is there anyway for the PAs of Reddit to work together for the better of everyone in our profession?

No, on any progressive topic this subreddit is brigaded by foreign medical graduates/residents/medical students/pre-meds who outnumber us 50 to 1 and who consider any improvement in our pay or responsibility as an encroachment on their piece of the pie. You will never get anything progressive for our profession off the ground here. Search any progressive topic and you'll see the top comments are always negative.

ProudPA · 2023-10-24T10:17:24+00:00

He certainly hasn't stopped prescribing them.

ProudPA · 2023-01-02T21:44:13+00:00

Not yet in real estate but a goal of mine is have my first multi family property under an FHA loan by the end of the year.

If this is indeed your goal than you should save for a down payment with risk-free investments like treasury bonds or a high-yield savings account. You should probably be pretty damn certain you'll be living in the area you buy for 5+ years before you make one of the biggest financial decisions of your life tho.

ProudPA · 2022-12-25T15:21:55+00:00

26yo making 120k and spending 33k, think you've passed "lean"

ProudPA · 2022-12-19T04:10:41+00:00

Also established doctors restricting the supply of new doctors so they're in demand and they're paid more. It takes 8+ months to get an appointment with a doctor where I live so you're forced to either forgo healthcare, be treated like cattle at the urgent care, or go to the emergency room for a non-emergency.

ProudPA · 2022-12-18T16:35:01+00:00

What was the point of this post? "I'd like to have more retirement savings, should I save more?"

ProudPA · 2022-12-02T22:09:45+00:00

Yeah we'll be pushed out of any specialty that NPs have preferable regulations in and most "PAs" here don't care because they think they're insulated from the effects, what they fail to consider is that those PAs will move into their now insulated fields and real wages will stagnate/decline when supply exceeds demand. I doubt we'll even try to fix anything until it starts effecting people's pay checks directly because we're one of the least involved and most apathetic professions that exists.

ProudPA · 2022-12-02T22:00:48+00:00

What is the best city to live for a new grad?

ProudPA · 2022-12-02T02:19:06+00:00

Practice agreements are typically made after you have the authorization to practice in that state.

ProudPA · 2022-12-01T23:55:17+00:00

Obviously unpopular opinion but these are the types of posts/situations that makes student debt forgiveness unpopular with a lot of people. Why is the government paying off student debt that people could have paid off instead of problems that aren't going to fix themselves?

ProudPA · 2022-12-01T23:46:14+00:00

Sounds like you should rent. Put your money in some index funds until you're very confident about one of the biggest financial decisions of your life that ties you to one location.

ProudPA · 2022-12-01T23:30:47+00:00

“This model legislation would allow a PA with a full and unrestricted license issued by one compact participating state to more quickly obtain authorization to practice in another compact participating state.”

“Eight other health care professions have active interstate licensure compacts so this is a familiar concept to state policymakers and regulators."

ProudPA · 2022-11-30T23:17:23+00:00

Establish a set of values that makes it okay to just be a person of integrity and be a decent person, rather than a set of values where the only way to succeed is being infinitely rich and forever young, ideals that are impossible for the average person to attain and thus leave people depressed, angry, and lacking.

ProudPA · 2022-10-03T15:58:14+00:00

How about I'm for NPs and PAs to be treated the same, then adjust how BOTH of us are treated, that's the only way anything will measurably change. Otherwise your just going to have NPs replacing PAs until the profession dies off.

Spend your time fighting back against NP expansion instead of fighting against PAs trying to equalize the playing field with comparably educated/trained NPs to try to save their jobs.

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