Pressure on government to recognize physician assistants

On the other side of most B.C. borders — four U.S. states plus Alberta — patients can see a physician assistant for many health concerns.
But not in B.C., where the province does not recognize physician assistants as health professionals, even though they’re trained to do some of the same work that family doctors do.
Pressure is mounting, however, now that B.C. Green leader Andrew Weaver has become a vocal champion of physician assistants.
In a speech he gave recently to the an