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Fashion Faux Pas: Blair's hair, looking a little flat. Heard of volumizing spray...
Fashion Faux Pas: Let's see. Oversized t-shirt + raggedy skinny tie + cheap leather mini skirt + fishnet stockings...
Fashion Faux Pas: Someone needs to tell this blonde chick that if you're working in the real world, it's not okay to bare your entire cleavage and backside or expose your lady flower in the office...
...problem is already affecting teaching hospitals, where there are typically not enough residents to help on all the cases. Many programs have resorted to hiring physician assistants (PAs) - they're like surgical residents who never graduate - to provide support when no residents are available to cover the cases. PAs can be a truly great help, but they don't have the mind-set of a doctor who stands - or will soon stand - in the lead position. When there's trouble, that mind-set is invaluable. And in surgery, sometimes there is trouble. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...what's the alternative? Hospitals that are flush can hire PAs to assist; the one where I work does. But most can't afford the hefty expense of PAs. Even the hospitals that have the funds don't have enough to hire PAs for every case. So I often end up begging older colleagues or a surgeon waiting for the start of his own case for a "freebie"; I'm playing on goodwill, friendship or the promise of his eventually getting a paying case...