Stories from the emergency room
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2017
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
During school, I considered doing an ER residency. I even did an elective rotation at arrowhead regional medical center, as they had a paid fellowship.
There was always something about the ED that caught my eye. But, instead of pursuing emergency medicine, I went down another path.
That wasn't the case for my buddy Gray; he did go down that path.
He's been practicing as an ED physician assistant for two years and is loving every minute. Two days out of the week, he also precepts students.
Since starting, he's learned, and done a ton - this means he has a lot of knowledge to share 😎
He's one of two PA's, which will be dishing out a ton of free medical content, every single week 🙌🏽
Today, I want to formally introduce you to Gray Phelps - one of our newest educators.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? My name is Gray Phelps and I'm a licensed physician assistant practicing in emergency medicine. |
| 0:06.5 | This podcast video is simply to introduce myself to you guys. |
| 0:10.5 | But before I do, I want to sincerely thank the founder of PA boards Andrew Reed for allowing me to take part |
| 0:16.8 | I'm really looking forward to bringing you guys great educational content |
| 0:21.3 | I've been a long-term listener of the podcast and have found it to be more than useful for me both in clinical practice and when I was a student. |
| 0:29.0 | So a little bit more about myself. |
| 0:31.0 | I went to PA school at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Myers, Florida. |
| 0:35.6 | I graduated in 2015 and at the age of 25 I had an amazing opportunity to practice there, |
| 0:41.8 | but I ultimately turned it down to move back to Charleston, South Carolina. |
| 0:46.0 | The reason being is because all of my family lives in Charleston and families are extremely important to me. |
| 0:52.0 | So I had my family back in my life, but I was |
| 0:55.6 | without a job. I went on many interviews. I made business cards, networked through friends and family, but I kept hearing the same thing. |
| 1:04.2 | You're a great candidate, but we're looking for a more experienced provider. |
| 1:09.0 | So why am I telling you this? |
| 1:10.9 | Because I know many of you are probably going through the same things. |
| 1:14.0 | Keep searching, don't get discouraged, and the right opportunity will come. |
| 1:18.0 | Right now, I'm practicing emergency medicine at a small rural hospital. We have 13 beds in our main ED and another |
| 1:25.8 | seven located just beside the main ED, which we like to call the fast track of the ER. |
| 1:31.1 | I work on both sides and see a wide variety of patients. I've been |
| 1:35.4 | practicing emergency medicine for 17 months and I currently cannot see myself |
| 1:39.6 | wanting to work in any other field. I love teaching and sometimes I even get to teach PA students while |
| 1:46.2 | I'm working. Some of my attending physicians are clinical preceptors for the various PA programs |
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