ED coverage: What are the options for orthopaedic surgeons in 2010?

Alexandra Elizabeth Page, MD

No national solution in sight for addressing access issues According to the AAOS position statement on emergency orthopaedic care, “The AAOS believes that orthopaedic surgeons can stimulate change to improve the emergency orthopaedic care access problem. However, orthopaedic surgeons cannot accomplish this alone.

It is all about relationships

Fred C. Redfern, MD

How to host a political fundraiser event Last year, Joe Heck, DO, a candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives from Nevada’s Third Congressional District, asked me if I could raise at least $25,000 from orthopaedic surgeons for his primary campaign. I knew that Dr. Heck’s experience as an emergency department physician and a state senator would make him a great representative for medicine and Nevada, so I wanted to help.

Don’t write-off an IMAC

Lauren Bates; Nick Piatek

With the election of Republican Scott Brown as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, Democrats have lost their 60-vote super-majority in the Senate. This loss of filibuster-proof numbers puts the future of healthcare reform in doubt. To complicate matters, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said that the House will not pass the Senate’s healthcare reform legislation.