{"id":50842,"date":"2023-10-10T08:21:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=50842"},"modified":"2023-10-10T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:21:50","slug":"would-you-want-to-be-treated-by-a-medic-with-just-two-years-training-physician-associates-help-to-reduce-doctors-workloads-but-concerns-have-been-raised-about-them-diagnosing-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/10\/would-you-want-to-be-treated-by-a-medic-with-just-two-years-training-physician-associates-help-to-reduce-doctors-workloads-but-concerns-have-been-raised-about-them-diagnosing-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Would YOU want to be treated by a &#8216;medic&#8217; with just two years&#8217; training? Physician Associates help to reduce doctors&#8217; workloads, but concerns have been raised about them diagnosing mental illness and even being allowed to help with brain surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45693\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Trainee-doctor-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Trainee-doctor-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Trainee-doctor-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Trainee-doctor-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Trainee-doctor-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Trainee-doctor.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Marshall was delighted when he finally got an appointment after calling his GP surgery for several days. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12611847\/Would-want-treated-medic-just-two-years-training.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Peter Marshall was delighted when he finally got an appointment after calling his GP surgery for several days. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Trainee-doctor.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50843,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50842\/revisions\/50843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}