Sure-fire way for a patient to get off on the wrong foot with me: [View all]

"Good morning! I'm a Physician Assistant. What seems to be the problem?"

"A Physician Assistant? So you went to a community college somewhere for three months, and now you think you're a doctor?"

Whew!

This guy must be the life of whatever party he walks in to...

I kept my cool and told him that the University of Washington School of Medicine isn't exactly a community college, and that the PA program is basically four years of medical school and an intership crammed into two years.

Still, I was tempted to test his aerodynamic properties by drop-kicking him out of the clinic.

I didn't.

First, Do No Harm.