PAs can build a stronger profession by mentoring their future colleagues, says the author. Give back by volunteering to precept.

JAAPA's recently retired editor in chief describes some of the Journal's accomplishments during her tenure and explores some of the challenges facing JAAPA in the years ahead.

JAAPA's founding editor looks back at launching the Journal in 1988 and suggests that perhaps not so much has changed in the past 25 years as we may think.

Clinicians must be well-informed about potential safety problems in order to assess a drug's benefit-to-harm balance and to avoid causing harm to their patients.

The author urges PAs to join the Campaign for Action to help build a health care system where all Americans have access to high-quality, patient-centered care.

Watching students develop their clinical reasoning skills has heightened the author's awareness of how she applies clinical reasoning with patients in her own practice—and has reminded her to not take this critical skill for granted.

"My teachable moments," says the author, "didn't happen in PA school or even as a practicing PA but rather while my partner or I have been sitting in a paper gown on an exam table."

How ironic, says the author, that the physician assistant profession, so devoted to the team approach to care, is denied the ability to be part of the hospice team.

The author argues that PAs should consider the pros and cons of distributing free drug samples and decide whether to do so based on the PA profession's ethical principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.

The authors discuss some of the implications of PA career flexibility, which has long been a hallmark of the profession and was one of its founding principles.