{"id":62360,"date":"2024-07-22T06:49:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T06:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=62360"},"modified":"2024-07-22T06:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T06:49:37","slug":"one-in-five-patients-dont-know-the-difference-between-doctors-and-physician-associates-watchdog-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/22\/one-in-five-patients-dont-know-the-difference-between-doctors-and-physician-associates-watchdog-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"One in five patients don\u2019t know the difference between doctors and physician associates, watchdog warns"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53726\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GP-telephone-appointment-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GP-telephone-appointment-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GP-telephone-appointment-360x239.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GP-telephone-appointment.jpeg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost a quarter\u00a0<a title=\"Physician associates being used as \u2018substitutes\u2019 for doctors \u2013 academic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/martin-mckee-nhs-gp-surgeries-british-medical-association-royal-college-of-gps-b2577767.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">of people do not know the difference between a physician associate a<\/a>nd a doctor, according to a new poll.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/one-in-five-patients-don-t-know-the-difference-between-doctors-and-physician-associates-watchdog-warns\/ar-BB1qnpia?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=ed3f233c09a24e1e9715b5340cec5fb8&amp;ei=28\">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>Almost a quarter\u00a0of people do not know the difference between a physician associate and a doctor, according to a new poll.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Physician-associag.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62360","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=62360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62361,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62360\/revisions\/62361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}