It's a legal term to describe a separate legal entity - Professional Association. It's a form of incorporating a group of professionals, such as physicians, or dentists, or attorneys, or Accountants to allow the individuals protection from lawsuits.
'PA' stands for Physician Assistant. Physician Assistants are healthcare professionals who are trained to provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive healthcare services under the supervision of a licensed physician.
it means their not a doctor yet, their just a physician's assistant.
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PA's are physicians assistants, and they are not training to become physicians (unlike stated above). They go through 2 years of school (after undergrad) and learn how to treat patients in a "watered down" version of medical school. They are fantastic at treating common problems and are very knowledgeable about medicine, but don't have the same knowledge-base as physicians.
A PA is NOT a physician - PA stands for physician assistant. A physician is a DO, MBBS, or MD.
DC after a chiropractors name stands for Doctor of Chiropractic
Not finding titular initials "PA;" prolly they mean Pennsylvania.
PA means Professional Association.
After a firms name, PA means professional association.
what does plc mean
Professional Association
what does the PLC stand for after a Dr.s name
Medical Specialist
Doctor of HYPnosis
Plastic Surgeon
Physician Assistant-Certified, Certified Diabetes Educator. This means the medical provider is a certified Physician Assistant, and is in addition to that, the person is a certified diabetes educator.