April 2008

  From My Perspective (65K PDF)

 Dateline: Washington (50K PDF)

• ACS alerts Senate to workforce crisis
• House passes GME bill
• Budget plan slashes health care

   The College's Division of Advocacy and Health Policy: An overview (215K PDF)

   "The best and worst week of my life": A surgeon at war (335K PDF)

   Emphasis on public reporting of health care data intensifies (95K PDF)

   A humanitarian effort by the department of surgery of the USUHS to a third-world country: The Philippines (325K PDF)

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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