Physician assistants work in all areas of medicine, including primary care and family medicine, emergency medicine, and psychiatry. The work of physician assistants depends in large part on their specialty and what their supervising physician needs them to do.For example, a physician assistant working in surgery may close incisions and provide care before and after the operation.s more physicians retire or enter specialty areas of medicine, more physician assistants are expected to take on the role of primary care provider. Furthermore, the number of individuals who have access to primary care services will increase as a result of federal health insurance reform.
Call your doctor if your cough doesn't go away after several weeks or if you or your child is: 1  Coughing up thick, greenish-yellow phlegm. 2  Wheezing. 3  Experiencing a fever more than 100 F (38 C) 4  Experiencing shortness of breath.
If you or your child are taking antibiotics for whooping cough, you need to be careful not to spread the infection to others. 1  Stay away from nursery, school or work until 48 hours from the start of antibiotic treatment or three weeks after the coughing bouts started (whichever is sooner).