After reading the online comments on one of her editorials, the author wonders: What has happened to our ability to converse with each other respectfully on topics about which we disagree?

Skilled communication is especially critical during conversations with children and their families about life-threatening and terminal conditions. How can E.B. White's classic children tale make you a better communicator?

The author explores what happens as the roles of medical professional and daughter coincide when her elderly father is hospitalized with pneumonia.

Such a congress could foster the role of physician assistants, explore innovations in the education of PAs, and much else besides.

Many of our patients own guns. It's part of our job as physician assistants to teach them how to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.

The current health care reform bills focus on expanding coverage without adequately addressing out-of-control health care costs.

When patients search for health information on the Web, is what they find reliable? Do they understand what they read? Do they even tell you what they found?

Has the PA profession delivered on its promise to increase access to health care? This editorial's argument: The evidence shows that it has.

When planning a patient's care, physician assistants should consider all the available options--treatment, cure, rehabilitation, and prevention.

A fellowship with the NCPS showed this PA how he and other PAs can effect positive change in our health care system.