Physician Assistant
Laura
Laura
Wisniewski, PA-C
PRIMARY CARE/EMERGENCY MEDICINE/NEW YORK CITY
Credentials, experience, and the philosophy behind how I practice, for colleagues, employers, and referrals.
View credentials → 02For working PAs, not students, not pre-PA. Clinical reasoning, specialty pivots, and figuring out whether your next role is actually the right one.
Learn more →Clinically conservative with testing and treatment alike, whether the case is acute or chronic, a new patient or one she's followed for years: order and treat what changes the plan, not what's reflexive.
One clinician follows the problem through: from the visit, to the result, to the resolution.
No finding disappears into a chart. Every result gets read, and every read gets a next step.
Care built on relationships and history, not a rotating door of one-off visits.
For PAs already working, not students and not pre-PA. If you're navigating clinical reasoning on the job, weighing a specialty pivot, or trying to tell whether your next role is actually a good one, this is for you.
Working through cases the way you'll actually see them, not the textbook version.
What to actually ask in an interview, and how to read a job before you sign a contract.
Laura is a Physician Assistant with experience across adult primary and urgent care in New York City, most recently at MiDoctor Health, treating everything from the sniffles, PrEP management, and UTIs to severe gastroenteritis and nonobstructing kidney stones. Beyond her own patients, many clinical judgment calls landed on her too: prescription refills, patient questions, and escalation of care for support staff at other locations, troubleshooting for another site while she was working out of Hell's Kitchen, for example, and where she'd step into some of the medical director's responsibilities on days the medical director was covering ED shifts elsewhere. Before that, she was a hospitalist PA at Mount Sinai West, managing patients with sepsis, stroke, and diabetes among other acute conditions, work grounded in a strong internal medicine foundation and a belief that keeping patients out of the ER, when it's safe to, is part of the job. Her interest in emergency medicine started early, as an EMT in college, then again during a Level II trauma center rotation in PA school, a thread that still runs through how she practices: being heard is part of being treated.
She was an undergraduate teaching assistant for organic chemistry, biochemistry, and anatomy & physiology before earning her B.S. in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise from Virginia Tech (2019), magna cum laude with honors, co-authoring undergraduate research on the ketogenic diet's role in managing Type 2 diabetes. After graduating, she moved to New York City, working as a medical assistant in interventional pain management and as a medical scribe at CityMD urgent care, before moving back to Virginia in 2021 for PA school, earning her MPAM (Master of Physician Assistant Medicine) from the University of Lynchburg PA School of Medicine (2023), and excelled in both her didactic and clinical education, completing an additional emergency medicine elective on top of her required rotations, alongside gastroenterology and anesthesia, and joining a humanitarian medical mission in Oaxaca, Mexico.
She's a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) and the New York State Society of Physician Assistants (NYSSPA).
In the media (December 2024): featured on CBS News New York, speaking with reporter Dave Carlin on holiday flu season and when to seek care.
Outside the clinic, she's usually planning her next trip, at a concert, reading, or spending time with friends and family.
A patient came into urgent care with chest pain that had been building for five weeks, already seen once elsewhere and told it was costochondritis. He arrived with a chest X-ray and labs already done, but no one had gone over the results with him. Laura reviewed them herself: the radiology report described old, calcified tissue in his lungs as "chronic," with no prior imaging to actually confirm that. Rather than take that read at face value, she ordered a follow-up work-up, including a TB test. Days later, it came back positive for latent tuberculosis, and he started treatment. Not every finding gets caught on the first pass, and that's ok, what matters is not letting go of a case until the picture is actually clear.
More case studies →"A true medical professional: on-the-spot advice that made sense, and a treatment plan I was glad to follow."
Zocdoc review, UES location
"Seen quickly and treated with real kindness. I was nervous walking in, but she reassured me it would be fine, and it was."
Brendan, Google review
"Great professionalism and bedside manner. I felt like I was in excellent hands."
Raniero, Google review
"Great service, very attentive and fast."
Adriel O., Zocdoc verified patient
