PA-C

At my doctors' office the other day I noted that the staff includes a "PA-C."  Um, that would, perhaps, stand for "physician's assistant--certified?"   And the point is that she doesn't want to bear the obloquy of being a CPA?  Forgetting Molly Bloom Goldberg who delighted in telling the neighbors that her new son-in-law was a CPA--"cleaning, pressing and altering!"  Or forgetting Normie from Cheers, who thought that being a CPA was almost as good as knowing CPR.