PAs may practice longer than expected and need to bridge their retirement in unprecedented ways. Who, what, and why remain challenging questions.

The PA profession is undeniably critical to the future of medicine, and we all have a responsibility to represent PAs the best we can.

More than 90% of women survive when ovarian cancer is caught early. The key is awareness, for both the patient and the PA.

All patients should be offered a trained chaperone for intimate exams in advance of the consultation. The gender of either patient or provider should not influence the discussion.

One way to address the Healthy People 2020 goals is the patient-centered medical home, which focuses on enhanced access to care and improved care at a decreased cost.

The month she spent practicing medicine in Niger taught the author much about the value of each individual life. She learned, too, that PAs can play a major role in patients' lives, whether they practice in the United States or the Sahara Desert.

A PA ruminates on unemployment—her own, and the nation's—and what it might mean for the future of the profession.

The author argues that to maintain themselves as a "disruptive innovation," with all the value that brings to the American health care system, PAs must tend to their profession carefully.

A PA participating in a South Australian trial reflects on her experience and the future of the PA profession in Australia.

The author reflects on the pain and confusion her family experienced watching her sister struggle with frontotemporal dementia.