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Mark Bostic, MSPAS, PA-C grew up in Scottsburg, Indiana and graduated from Scottsburg High School in 1987. He joined the US Army where he served seven years. Duty stations included Korea and Arizona, and he is a veteran with two tours to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during Desert Storm and Desert Shield. Mark attended Indiana University (southeast campus) where he studied premedical biology and chemistry, graduating with his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1998. He has worked in such fields as medical staffing, nurse assisting, and organic chemistry. Mark recently earned his Master of Science in Physician Assistant Medicine from the University of Kentucky Physician Assistant Program in Lexington, Kentucky, where he was president of his class. He has returned to his home state of Indiana and looks forward to serving the medical needs of our community in the family practice setting. Although Mark treats patients all people from a primary care perspective, he is particularly interested in the aggressive treatment of the metabolic syndrome, an inter-related group of disorders that increases a person’s risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Signs and symptoms generally include high blood pressure, insulin resistance/diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and central obesity. Mark has one daughter, Krisann, who attends Scottsburg High School. She plans to study medicine in the future.
(The following excerpt was taken from the Occupational Outlook Handbook on 15 October 2007 via world wide web at http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm) “Physician assistants (PAs) practice medicine under the supervision of physicians and surgeons. They should not be confused with medical assistants, who perform routine clinical and clerical tasks. PAs are formally trained to provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services. Working as members of the health care team, they take medical histories, examine and treat patients, order and interpret laboratory tests and x rays, and make diagnoses. They also treat injuries, by suturing, splinting, and casting. PAs record progress notes, instruct and counsel patients, and order or carry out therapy. PAs in Indiana prescribe medications.” “PAs may be the principal care providers in rural or inner city clinics, where a physician is present for only 1 or 2 days each week. In such cases, the PA confers with the supervising physician and other medical professionals as needed and as required by law. PAs also may make house calls or go to hospitals and nursing care facilities to check on patients, after which they report back to the physician.”
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