AI for Physician Assistants 2026: Freed vs Nabla Tested
Physician assistants are drowning in after-hours charting. We tested Freed vs Nabla to find the best AI scribe for physician assistants in 2026 — real results.
Chapter 1: The 2026 PA Documentation Crisis: Why Ambient AI Went From Novelty to Necessity Ask a physician assistant in 2026 what part of the job they'd delete if they could, and almost nobody says the patients. They say the charting. Specifically, they say the charting they do at 9:47 PM on a Tuesday, laptop balanced on a couch cushion, half-watching something they won't remember, closing the last six notes from a clinic day that ended five hours earlier. That's the problem an AI scribe for physician assistants is actually solving. Not "efficiency" in the abstract — the specific, corrosive,...