December 2009
Features
Presidential Address: Professionalism in the 21st century (1060K PDF)
A surgeon in the eye of Hurricane Gustav (200K PDF)
The surgical mask has its first performance standard—A century after it was introduced (125K PDF)
Departments
What surgeons should know about...
News
A. Brent Eastman, MD, FACS, elected Chair of the Board of Regents (65K PDF)
A look at The Joint Commission: New alert focuses on leadership role (45K PDF)
ACOSOG news: Promoting patient safety (270K PDF)
Bulletin index: Volume 94, numbers 1–12 (965K PDF)
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