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Physician assistants and retirement
Roderick S. Hooker, PhD, PA-C
November 08, 2011
PAs may practice longer than expected and need to bridge their retirement in unprecedented ways. Who, what, and why remain challenging questions.
Ways to celebrate PA Week
Joshua N. Butler, MMS, PA-C
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Katie E. Butler, MPAS, PA-C
September 21, 2011
The PA profession is undeniably critical to the future of medicine, and we all have a responsibility to represent PAs the best we can.
Ovarian cancer: Breaking the silence
Kelly Donkers, MPA, PA-C
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Heidi M. Felix, MPAS, PA-C
September 16, 2011
More than 90% of women survive when ovarian cancer is caught early. The key is awareness, for both the patient and the PA.
Chaperones for all?
Margaret Allen, PA-C
May 26, 2011
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.
Healthy People 2010 and the PCMH
Alison C. Essary, MHPE, PA-C
April 21, 2011
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.
Serving the underserved
Heather Carlson, MSPAP, PA-C
November 10, 2010
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.
The jobless physician assistant
Carol Mackenzie Jackson, PhD, PA-C
October 01, 2010
A PA ruminates on unemployment—her own, and the nation's—and what it might mean for the future of the profession.
PAs and "disruptive innovation"
Michael Halasy, MS, PA-C
September 15, 2010
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.
PA profession in South Australia: One year later
Dawanda R. Pesicka, PA-C
January 12, 2010
A PA participating in a South Australian trial reflects on her experience and the future of the PA profession in Australia.
Piecing together confusing symptoms
Kay Christian, MS, PC-C
December 08, 2009
The author reflects on the pain and confusion her family experienced watching her sister struggle with frontotemporal dementia.
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