A physician assistant is someone who is a medical practitioner working under the guidance of a licensed senior physician. The PA is completely different from a medical assistant because medical assistants do not possess the qualifications possessed by a PA. Also, a medical practitioner does only simple tasks like administering intravenous injections on advice from physician\physician assistant, administrative duties such as looking after the hospital/clinical ward, maintaining cleanliness, silence, etc. The PA is in fact a health care professional just like a doctor performing  varied health care duties …