UPDATE: I ended up having to go to the ER that night and got diagnosed with pneumonia. So if you want to live, don't go here. The incompetence of the staff can surely kill you.
When the medical assistant went to take my temperature in my ear, she stuck the device ON my ear not in. While I was bothered that an MA couldn't even take a correct temperature, I waited patiently for the doctor. Once the PA stepped in I told her my symptoms. She was incredibly hard to understand and not because of an accent, but because she mumbled and was surprisingly condescending. At this point I haven't slept in four days due to a fever of 102 everyday and coughing at night so asked if there was anything I could do; she wrote me a prescription for an over the counter cough syrup... even after the fact that I told her I was already taking one and it did not help. She just looked at me like I, the patient coughing my lungs out, was lying to her.
I have always been the type of person to never judge PA's or NP's. But the incompetence of this particular PA makes me realize why everyone I know refuses to see a PA. Obviously from this visit, the two years of graduate education PA's get doesn't even compare to the 4+ years a MD receives.