11.   In military hospitals, physician assistants provide examinations, diagnoses, recommendations for medications and even do light surgery.

12.   It said it planned to hire more physician assistants.

13.   Its program would contact diabetics regularly to check on management of the disease and rely heavily on nurses, physicians assistants and others to support doctors.

14.   Like physician assistants, nurse practitioners, or NPs, serve in all major medical settings, and in most major medical specialties.

15.   Mrs. Spearman says she was misdiagnosed by a military physician assistant.

16.   Nurses, physician assistants and even medical technicians take on greater responsibility in the military than in the civilian health care system.

17.   Other occupations do very well in Atlanta, too, including biological scientists, power distributors and dispatchers, sales engineers and physicians assistants.

18.   Physician assistant and nurse practitioner, two other fields growing in popularity with practitioners and patients, are relatively new on the scene compared with midwifery.

19.   Physician assistants, Cushman notes, serve in a wide range of venues, including hospitals, clinics and urgent care centers.

20.   Rita Altman, a physician assistant who took part in a clinical trial in San Francisco, says a possible drawback is that the zipper takes a little practice.