A PA working at a family practice clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan, describes her day as a Mother-Child Health Coordinator.

The author narrates the activities of a day while deployed as a aeromedical physician assistant in Iraq.

A PA who works in the Michigan Clinical Research Unit at the University of Michigan Hospital describes an average day in the unit.

Follow this PA as he treats a wide range of burn wounds in the operating room and clinic at a regional burn center in Florida.

A day in both the anatomy lab and the hospital teaches this student how a constant awareness of illness, suffering, and loss will be part of being a PA.

Babies in the neonatal intensive care unit face many struggles, from intubation to gastric surgery to eye surgery. The reward comes in seeing a baby get better enough to go home.

Facing down protesters, reassuring anxious patients, and conducting research for a better future are all in a day's work for a PA working at a large family planning clinic.

In addition to practicing in emergency medicine, I am a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine, Wilderness Medical Society, and I volunteer with a search and rescue (SAR) team that responds to incidents all over the state of California.

I'm volunteering for a month at the WE-ACTx Clinic, Kigali, Rwanda. More than 250,000 Tutsi women were raped by Hutu men during the 100 days of genocide. Today, many of the women infected with HIV during the genocide have AIDS and are in need of experienced medical care. Rwanda is now one of the most stable countries in Africa, but it is still struggling to meet the needs of the sick. When capable foreign aid is offered, it is often accepted.

My deployment has me stationed at a forward operating base (FOB) near the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. My primary responsibilities are to mentor an Afghanistan National Army (ANA) doctor/hospital commander and his 14-member staff and to provide health care to the coalition troops stationed at the FOB.