Utilization of PAs in federal correctional institutions.

Physician assistants who provide care to inmates of the federal correctional system--and of prisons in general--face an array of challenges that their counterparts in other fields do not. The medical director of the nation's prison system describes those problems, offers an overview of the federal prison health care system, and provides a glimpse at the role of PAs in the system--including the rewards of practicing in a correctional facility.