Some days, I’m amazed at what I get to do.
The other day, I got to navigate beside the carotid and slip past the esophagus to help remove a degenerative disc from the spine of a patient with numbness and weakness in their hands. Under a powerful microscope, we delicately placed a bone graft and screws to repair and reinforce.
In the afternoon I spent a few hours helping remove an infected knee replacement and filling the space with an antibiotic-filled bone cement.
The next day I helped deliver twins via c-section and then spent 3-4 hours on a tummy tuck and sewing miles of incisions.
Usually during a week, I’ll also have one or two robotic hysterectomies or sacrocolpopexies (don’t look that one up; you might not like what you find). Sometimes I might have a shoulder scope with rotator cuff repair or an ACL or thyroidectomy.
Being a PA is a pretty sweet gig.
But only if you pass your exam. Let me help.
Brian Wallace