Hey and welcome to episode 63 of the physician assistant boards.com podcast

Today what I want to do is I wanted to tell you a little bit about a patient of mine that I had personally don't don't know why this kind of touched me in the way it did.

You know, I've seen a lot of this, but for some reason this stuck out and, you know,

it's one of those things where you just feel like you need to share the story.

You know, you just feel like if you to share the story. You know you just

feel like if you share this story you know it's going to somehow impact somebody

else. So you know I had a patient that I saw a couple days back and she's a 52 year old female. I've been taking care of her for a couple of years now and

she was, when I first started taking care of her, she was actually in remission breast cancer.

She had done her treatment, everything was good, and this was a couple years back.

She had a whole host of other other problems. She was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

She was actually paralyzed from the waist down.

She had an accident.

She's in chronic pain.

It didn't matter what the physicians gave her.

She was always in pain.

She'd go to pain specialist. She has a rheumatologist. She has an orthopedic.

And then she has her oncologist that she does her routine checkup with.

And then she has us, you know, I her primary care and oh and on top of that

she's she's actually diagnosed with schizophrenia her two children also have

schizophrenia as you can tell she's obviously going through a whole lot.

You know, it's a lot, you know, she's the type of patient that comes in pretty frequently.

I see her, you know, at one point I was seeing her once a week kind of

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