Health expert issues warning after young woman's blood clot was misdiagnosed as long-covid and anxiety
A health expert has issued a warning over physician associates after a young actress' fatal blood clot was misdiagnosed as long-covid and anxiety.
An inquest earlier this year heard the physician associate should have advised her to go A&E. If Emily had, she likely would have received treatment for a pulmonary embolism and survived. Speaking to BBC Radio 4 Today this week, he said that patients 'don't necessarily know who they are or what to expect' when dealing with physician associates, who are supposed to support doctors in making diagnoses.
Mr Edwards said the concept of using physician associates is a 'good one' which does work in other countries, but added 'it can [be done] badly and I think the worry here is if it's not done well.' Earlier in July, members of the doctors' union the British Medical Association called for the role to be renamed as "physician assistant" and for more efforts to ensure that physician associates were not confused with doctors.
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