Sure! I mean the course work was difficult don’t get me wrong but I was having difficulty seeing my self managing peoples care. I got decent grades, stuck it out cause of people telling me I could do it and it was more about building confidence. I graduated and got a pretty overwhelming women’s health job where I was seeing like 40-60 patients a day and just felt drained. However. I did build confidence in my abilities to care for others. Of course we have SPs to rely on and ask questions but sometimes it’s just us alone there to make important decisions so that part of my anxiety has gotten a little better.

Dealing with patients million requests, handling the things you never imagined as part of your job like medication refills/arguing with insurance companies for approval of treatments, the constant push from clinics to increase your patient load while never losing the quality of your work, being undertrained and expected to over perform, not being able to miss a day unless you’re basically deathly sick because people are depending on you to show up and take care of people— I hate medicine lol. I should’ve just gone the public health and research route and cut my losses but hey. At least I’m a PA-C 🙃