Interview a Health Professional assignment.

The name of the health professional I interviewed is Daniel Feivor. He is a Physician’s Assistant (PA) in interventional pain management. He works at Integrative pain specialists which is an independent practice in Richmond. He got his undergrad degree in biology and chemistry from Bridgewater college, and his master’s degree in physician assistant studies from Radford university in Roanoke VA.

In his undergrad years he initially wanted to go into research that’s why he studied biology and chemistry. He wanted to move further into bench research but after working on a few research papers, he realized that he wanted to go into direct patient care and be more involved with people instead of being independent as is with research. After doing some research of his own, he decided that healthcare was his best fit with his biology and chemistry background. He was trying to decide between medical school, pharmacy school and PA school. According to him PA school was the easiest route since he didn’t want to go the medical school route which would take him seven plus years in school and didn’t want to go the pharmacy routes which didn’t have much direct patient care.

 Before Mr. Feivor got started working as a PA he worked as a physical therapist assistant to gain his clinical hours for PA school while being an undergrad student. The job he’s working now, is his first job after graduating PA school. As an interventional pain management PA his duties are to look at patients’ history records and find out the medications and prescribe medications for them and see how their medications would react with the other medications that the patients are taken, evaluate their pain level and run necessary tests and background checks. His favorite part of the job is having a supervisor who can always check what with what he’s doing and give feedback to him and getting to know the patients by name and getting to know them personally by asking them the necessary questions. He says that nothing really surprised him about his job because he pretty much did the research on everything, and he knew what he expected. He believes that the most challenging aspect of his job is the fact that you never know what you see when it comes to health care there maybe one challenge that differs from another and you just must learn how to work through it. The advice He gives for anyone who wants to go into the healthcare field is to be very good at customer service that is the key or the hack to being good in healthcare because you will have to learn how to deal with different kinds of people but if you want to go into healthcare and you don’t want to deal with customer service you can go into different specialties that don’t require you having to talk too much people like radiology and pathology.