May 2010
Features
The difficult or disruptive surgical patient: Practical strategies for diagnosis and management (230K PDF)
Responding to the difficult patient (170K PDF)
Dealing with the difficult family: Lessons from palliative care (165K PDF)
Risk management perspective on the difficult patient and family (180K PDF)
Checklists for success inside the OR and beyond: An interview with Atul Gawande, MD, FACS (880K PDF)
Departments
What surgeons should know about...
State STATs: The UEVHPA: An Update (155K PDF)
News
Dr. Fildes named Trauma Medical Director (55K PDF)
Dr. Rotondo named Chair, ACS Committee on Trauma (55K PDF)
ATLS® inaugurates course in Malaysia (130K PDF)
A cut above the rest: Surgical Caucus turns 20 (340K PDF)
ACOSOG news: Translational science in ACOSOG trials (200K PDF)
Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons: Instructions to authors (100K PDF)
NTDB® data points: Another national chapter
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