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On Oct. 13, Dr. Brent Eastman, vice-chair of the American College of Surgeons Board of Regents and Chief Medical Officer and N. Paul Whittier Chair of Trauma of Scripps Health in San Diego, presented the annual Scudder Oration on Trauma at ACS's Clinical Congress meeting.
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December 22, 2009
CHICAGO (December 22, 2009) – A new study published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that a volunteer program providing low-risk outpatient surgical procedures can deliver safe and effective health care to patients in need. However, the study...The Wall Street Journal - Opinion
By Dr. Darrell G. Kirch, AAMC president & CEO
January 5, 2010
Congress is poised to pass a health-care overhaul that would expand insurance coverage to 31 million Americans, but will the newly insured have a physician to care for them? ... The doctor shortage affects primary care as well as many medical specialties, even without an expansion of health insurance ... Worse, the supply of some doctors (such as urologists and general surgeons) is expected to shrink over this period ...
Operation Patient Access organized a panel discussion to help bring into focus the increasing surgical access challenges in the United States.
Operation Patient Access is a campaign representing the surgical community, surgical patients, and providers, that aims to work collaboratively with U.S. policymakers to address the urgent issues facing access to quality surgical care.