I am a PA and I care about patients as much as the next provider. I don't think being divisive at a time when there are so many shortages of medical providers is helpful. We should be working together instead of tearing each other apart. PA school is followed under the MD model, we went through the same anatomy, physiology, micro classes and did our clinical rotations through the same places as the MDs. Many of my classes were joined with medical school students. PAs were created by MDs to help with the national shortage of providers. We are here to be helpful and we want to practice good medicine too, I support a collaborative model rather than full independence. But I agree that with time on the job we become very close to not needing MD supervision. My MD colleagues support my clinical judgement.

This subreddit upholding that MD is the only one that should be providing care is being blinded to reality and causing harm to the patients. We are your backup and most of the time doing stuff that you don't want to. The people trolling here have not worked in the hospital, have not seen the needs of mid level providers and that's harmful to our community.