July 2004
 From My Perspective (60K PDF)
Dateline: Washington (15K PDF)
- Congress requests more accurate payment calculations
- Grants available for hospital preparedness
- Additional Fellows appointed to IOM trauma study
- Task force to speed regulatory approval of new technologies
- State liability reform encounters setbacks
- States could lose millions in federal Medicaid funding
RAS-ACS is shaping future College leaders: An interview with Jeffrey S. Upperman, MD (98K PDF)
Surgical residents: Are they students or employees? (46K PDF)
Surgical training offers more joys than hardships (238K PDF)
In Their Own Words: Serving on the MAP of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association's TEC (58K PDF)
In compliance... with the fair pay overtime initiative (24K PDF)
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