October 2001

  From My Perspective (61 K PDF)

  Dateline: Washington (58 K PDF)

• ACS Comments on supervision of CRNAs
• Massachusetts General hosts Day in Surgery
• Specialties comment on critical care issues
• Medicare issues proposal for outpatient PPS
• Congressional "casualties" mount

  Physicians and the war on drugs: The case for legalization (68K PDF)

  Physicians and the war on drugs: The case against legalization (62K PDF)

  Dr. Roe's response (17K PDF)

  Dr. Mabry's rebuttal (17K PDF)

  Making Washington work for you: "All politics is local" (160 K PDF)

  What surgeons should know about...Uniform standards for electronic claims (33K PDF)

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