March 2010

Features

10 questions and answers about disasters and disaster response (240K PDF)

Surgical lifestyles: Heart and Soul: A surgeon rebuilds his life after cardiac crisis (175K PDF)

Bullets, betel nut, and bacteria: Medicine in the Solomon Islands (330K PDF)

Surgical megafauna (330K PDF)

Departments

 Looking forward (70K PDF)

State STATs (85K PDF)

Socioeconomic tips

News

In memoriam: Harris B Shumacker, Jr., MD, FACS, remembered (130K PDF)

Report of the 2009 Oweida Scholar (110K PDF)

Members in the news (40K PDF)

College announces Clinical Scholars Program (40K PDF)

ACS Traveling Fellowship to Japan available (50K PDF)

ACOSOG news: Promoting patient safety through peer review (60K PDF)

Trauma meetings calendar (55K PDF)

Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons: Instructions to authors (130K PDF)

A look at The Joint Commission: CMS approves continued deeming authority (180K PDF)

NTDB® data points: IPV

Chapter news

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