June 2001

  From My Perspective (61 K PDF)

  Dateline: Washington (15 K PDF)

• HHS holds summit on patient safety
• OSHA petitioned to regulate resident work hours
• Former ACS President testifies before Congress
• Hospital payment increases announced

  Patient safety initiatives follow IOM report (26K PDF)

  Advanced surgical technology experience valuable to the basic education of general surgery residents (140K PDF)

  New technology and new approaches to surgical education (54K PDF)

  Save the charts: For whom and for what? (185K PDF)

  Socioeconomic tip of the month: Record retention (115K PDF)

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