ADA Carmichael indicates that a physician assistant isn't qualified to diagnose mental health disorders. However that is incorrect, a physician assistant is a licensed, mid-level medical practitioner who closely collaborates with a doctor and attends medical school, though only for two years, whereas a doctor attends medical school for four years. A physician assistant has a Master's degree and has most of the privileges a doctor does including: ordering labs and tests and interpreting the results, making diagnosis, performing minor surgical procedures and prescribing medications. A physician assistant's work is supposed to be partly supervised by their supervising physician (the exact level of supervision varies from state to state), a physician assistant's diagnosis would need to be double checked by a physician if it is complex case but that still doesn't mean they aren't any less qualified than a doctor is.
However it is possible Carmichael was getting a medical assistant confused with a physician assistant, a medical assistant is a low-level, licensed medical practitioner (similar to a nurse) who is usually responsible for recording a patient's weight and vital signs, assisting a physician with preparing and administering medications and charting notes in the patient's medical records. A medical assistant is a two year (Associates) degree and cannot make diagnosis or prescribe medications the way a physician assistant can. Even though the responsibilities of a medical assistant and a physician assistant are quite different the titles of physician assistant and medical assistant do get confused with one another.
However it is possible Carmichael was getting a medical assistant confused with a physician assistant, a medical assistant is a low-level, licensed medical practitioner (similar to a nurse) who is usually responsible for recording a patient's weight and vital signs, assisting a physician with preparing and administering medications and charting notes in the patient's medical records. A medical assistant is a two year (Associates) degree and cannot make diagnosis or prescribe medications the way a physician assistant can. Even though the responsibilities of a medical assistant and a physician assistant are quite different the titles of physician assistant and medical assistant do get confused with one another.
Detective Green tells the two teenage girls that had the victim's credit card that they can be charged with a felony for using a stolen credit card. But that's only if they stole the card off the victim's body, in which case they'd be charged with criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, a class E felony that usually carries probation but can also include a prison sentence of 1-4 years. However if they just found the credit card laying on the street or in a trash can all they could be charged with is unauthorized used of a credit/debit card, a class A misdemeanor which carries probation and possibly up to one year in jail.