PA vs Fracture

Wife has a somewhat displaced 5th metatarsal fracture. Ortho only had a PA appointment available initially, so we took it since supposedly said PA had a supervising physician.

We get in, PA decides within 30 seconds that there's no way it's surgical, and then can't understand why we'd like the PHYSICIAN to at least SEE the x-rays, while bragging that she could practice independently if she wanted to.

I ended up getting a little bit shitty with her and THANKFULLY got an appt with the physician later this week. Why in the actual hell is a midlevel making surgical decisions?!