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Editorial

What could PAs become if they answer the call to leadership?

May 01, 2012

The author explores leadership as epitomized by individual PAs, arguing that their stories will help others to realize their aptitudes for leadership, demystify the path to making lasting change, and invigorate PAs to lead the profession forward.
 

A parent's death: Helping a 
child after devastating trauma

, Lloyd "Chip" Taylor, PhD December 06, 2011

PAs are ideally situated to intervene in situations of parental loss. We can do much to help these children, such as providing practical strategies that help create environments that support healing and normal development.
 

AAPA's new president: Learn more about a man on a mission

September 06, 2011

Robert Wooten believes that PAs can provide the leadership needed to solve our health care challenges—leadership that he says begins the moment you volunteer and get involved.
 

Tales of the unexpected—and 
the lessons therein for us all

August 02, 2011

As a PA, you know how to make a team successful, and you have a deep understanding of why teams sometimes fail.
 

A new era—for JAAPA, the health care system, and the PA profession

July 01, 2011

JAAPA's new editor in chief offers his vision for the Journal and the profession.
 

FINAL JEOPARDY! Category: Physician Assistants

June 06, 2011

JAAPA's editor in chief for the past 8 years writes her last editorial, and looks forward to retirement.
 

There's no place like the patient-centered medical home

April 05, 2011

Trying to ensure that one receives care at home can be an especially precarious adventure as one gets older and faces a myriad of very difficult questions.
 

The art of physical assessment: Crossing personal space

February 03, 2011

The author argues that when examining our patients, we need to understand the concepts of space and distance, the boundaries in between, and how to cross them.
 

Practice random acts of PA 
kindness—it's easy and it's free!

December 03, 2010

What is it about who PAs are and what they do that can be translated into small, simple gestures of kindness? See the author's list, and add your own.
 

The tragedy of falling, and how PAs can make a difference

October 08, 2010

PAs are perfectly positioned to help to prevent falls, especially in the elderly, just by evaluating patients for risk factors and educating them about avoidable hazards.
 
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