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Lisa Berner enjoyed the complexity and variety of working as a hospitalist treating patients with multiple chronic medical problems. Now, she finds the most rewarding part of her job is building strong relationships with cancer patients and their families during long hospital stays. As a PA, she has a great deal of autonomy and her schedule has improved, though early in her career she worked long 12-hour shifts every other weekend. PAs are responsible for hospital admissions, daily rounding, discharges, and more. They provide 24-hour coverage, allowing fewer calls to on-call physicians. Both PAs and doctors should be thorough but efficient, use medical knowledge and clinical skills, think critically, and always practice within their scope. Bedside manner

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Capstone Interview

Lisa Berner enjoyed the complexity and variety of working as a hospitalist treating patients with multiple chronic medical problems. Now, she finds the most rewarding part of her job is building strong relationships with cancer patients and their families during long hospital stays. As a PA, she has a great deal of autonomy and her schedule has improved, though early in her career she worked long 12-hour shifts every other weekend. PAs are responsible for hospital admissions, daily rounding, discharges, and more. They provide 24-hour coverage, allowing fewer calls to on-call physicians. Both PAs and doctors should be thorough but efficient, use medical knowledge and clinical skills, think critically, and always practice within their scope. Bedside manner

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Lisa Berner

Email Interview
1. Tell me the best part of your job?

During the first 10 years of my career I worked as a hospitalist in internal medicine at


Butterworth/Blodgett hospitals. I loved the challenge everyday. Each day, each patient was a
new set of complex problems. It was never just a simple pneumonia, but a pneumonia in a
patient with CHF, Renal insufficiency and a variety of other chronic medical problems all working
against each other. I loved the variety and complexity of it all. This past 5 years, I have worked
with cancer (and hematology) patients and many of the chronic medical problems are there,
they just have a devastating cancer on top of it. Today, the best part of my job are the patients
and their families. Even though I’m on the inpatient setting, I build strong relationships with
patients and their families as they spend a lot of time in the hospital. Despite their life
threatening issues, they are the most gracious subset of patients I have cared for. They are in a
most vulnerable state but keep their composure as amazing human beings which is so very
rewarding thing to witness. I have found that people ARE inherently good.

2. What are some of the pros and cons of a PA?

I love my profession and haven’t found any cons. I have an incredible amount of autonomy and
have a great deal of trust from my attending physician counterparts that help to make this career
extremely rewarding. My early practice schedule was a bit gruesome working 12 hour shifts and
every other weekend but that has changed to a much better schedule and no call if I so choose.

3. Overall what are some things you do around the hospital?

In general, APPs are responsible for hospital admissions, daily rounding and discharges. I
additionally assist with consults for the hematology service, perform bone marrow biopsies and
intrathecal chemotherapy, which I love. We are in constant contact with nursing, care
management, social work and our attending physicians in care coordination. We respond to
critical floor calls and codes on our own patients, and yes I’ve had to initiate the code at times.
Not my favorite part.

4. Why are Physician Assistants valuable or beneficial to a practice? (why not just have a
doctor/nurse).

In many instances, a physician assistant can perform the same duties/functions as a physician
but at a much lower cost. In the hospital setting, we have 24 hour APP coverage which allows
for significantly fewer calls to the on call physician.

5. What makes a good PA and is this any different from what makes a good physician?
Everyone should be held to a very high standard with a balance between being thorough, but
also being efficient. For both physicians and PAs, Medical knowledge and clinical skill, both
which come with time and experience are extremely important in care of a patient for many
reasons. One's ability to think on their feet, make critical decisions in an ever changing and
busy environment, can mean the difference between life and death.

With time and experience, you gain confidence but should always practice with the mindset that
you don’t know everything and there is always more to learn. Always practice within your
scope.

Bedside manner goes without saying. Providers need to build good patient and family rapport to
build and maintain trust. Good bedside manner can significantly help to reduce stress amongst
patients and their families and gives providers improved job satisfaction.

6. As a PA what would you recommend to senior who is looking to go into this field? Any
tips?

This field has been very rewarding in so many aspects. I am so fortunate that I chose the
Physician Assistant profession. I would strongly recommend this profession without hesitation.
Tips? Study hard!!

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