August 2003

  From My Perspective (20 K PDF)

 Dateline: Washington (13 K PDF)

• Senators block medical liability reform
• Physician supply higher in states with noneconomic damage caps
• Trauma bills progress
• HHS to study Medicare pay for performance
• CMS cancels adjustment

 Statement on disaster and mass casualty management (45K PDF)

 Disaster and mass casualty management: A comment on the ACS position statement (24K PDF)

 In Compliance...with HIPAA rules (20K PDF)

Motion Pictures and the College: A history of "learning by seeing" (170K PDF)

Health care and competition law and policy: A year-long dialogue (38K PDF)

 Profiles in Leadership: Paul H. Jordan, Jr., MD, FACS

More Bulletin Articles

• Chapter News
• NTDB^® Data Points
• Socioeconomic tips of the month
• In Compliance... with HIPAA Rules
• What surgeons should know about...
• ACOSOG Articles Published in the ACS Bulletin
• Publications on Advocacy and Health Policy Issues

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