Physician assistants: a personal perspective

Personal Assistants

assistant—they can make the arrangements. " Our business cards used to list only our phone numbers. When fax machines became popular, we added our fax numbers. Now, our business cards also carry our e-mail addresses and our home page URLs. What's next? It could be the network addresses of our personal assistants. These assistants will take care of our schedule and may even represent us in many ...

Physician assistants and bioterrorism preparedness.

Despite the resources dedicated since 2001 to training health providers in emergency and bioterrorism preparedness and response, the literature on the participation of physician assistants (PAs) is very limited. The purpose of this pilot study was to explore the training level and experiences of PAs in the diagnosis and treatment of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive age...

Physician assistants in the Netherlands.

A medical book collection for physician assistants.

Selecting resources for physician assistants is challenging and can be overwhelming. Although several core lists exist for nursing, allied health, and medical libraries, judging the scope and level of these resources in relation to the information needs of the physician assistant is difficult. Medical texts can be highly specialized and very expensive, in essence, "overkill" for the needs of th...

Open Sesame!: A Look at Personal Assistants

Software agents, or softbots, are supposedly intelligent programs that assist the user in performing repetitive , boring, and time-consuming tasks. An overview of software agents, with special attention focused on the so-called personal assistants, is presented as an introduction. Following that, an in-depth look at one of the rst commercially available intelligent agents Open Sesame!, a person...