AAOS has global impact

Daniel J. Berry, MD

Whenever I speak to orthopaedic surgeons from other countries, I am struck by their respect for the AAOS and by their desire to participate in AAOS-sponsored educational programs. Our Academy is viewed as a world leader in so many ways—from our education programs (both in the United States and abroad) to our humanitarian outreach and disaster relief programs.

Lights, camera, action

Lauren Pearson

Television crews in the operating room and the office Media relations can help raise awareness of the medical expertise of orthopaedic surgeons, establish you or your practice as a local source of expertise and information on the specialty, and increase patient and public knowledge of the range of procedures and treatments available. Your institution or practice may be called upon to provide expert opinion to the media on various orthopaedic-related issues.

Pat on the back...

Andrew Gurman, MD, elected speaker of the American Medical Association House of Delegates. Joseph M. Lane, MD, recipient of the Hospital for Special Surgery’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his innovative research on bone disease and the use of bisphosphonates in treating osteoporosis. S. Terry Canale, MD, recipient of the 2011 Methodist Healthcare Foundation Living Award-Physician Inspiration in Faith and Health.

The AMA’s RUC and PDRP

The article, “Understanding the RUC” (June 2011), was nothing more than an advocacy piece masquerading as scholarship. It was designed to bolster support within the AAOS for a process that accrues to the direct financial benefit of orthopaedic surgeons, while ignoring the RUC process’s extraordinary cost to patient care quality, purchasers, primary care, medicine in general, and the larger American economy.

SBOT to honor AAOS

Kim Stafford

Brazilian orthopaedic society welcomes AAOS as “Guest Nation” in 2011 For nearly 15 years, the AAOS and the Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia (SBOT) have had a strong relationship, and many individual orthopaedic surgeons from both countries have developed friendly ties.

Workers’ compensation: What’s your threshold?

J. Mark Melhorn, MD

By J. Mark Melhorn, MD Causation is an issue in work-related injuries Orthopaedic surgeons frequently see patients with work-related musculoskeletal injuries. Many, however, are unfamiliar with the legal, administrative, ethical, and insurance requirements involved when treating workers’ compensation patients.

HVO celebrates silver anniversary

Jennie McKee

Volunteers provide care, training around the world Treating the mangled hand of a patient who was bitten by a baboon isn’t something U.S. orthopaedists often do. It’s equally uncommon to make a “house call” to a monastery to see a Buddhist monk with a flail arm. But those are just two of the many memorable experiences Ronald Wyatt, MD, has had—in South Africa and Viet Nam, respectively—as a volunteer with Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO).

The unfinished ride

Peter Pollack

Friends resume bike trip for charity—25 years later One morning in 1986, four young men left Buffalo, N.Y., with an impressive goal—an 8,141-mile bicycle trip to raise money and awareness for a boys club that had helped change their lives. Three months later, after a series of setbacks that included a major accident with a pickup truck, just one young man rode his bike back into town, having completed the last 2,500 miles of the journey alone.

Taking Annual Meeting education to the next level

Kathie Niesen, CMP

New systems, formats enhance 2012 experience The AAOS takes great pride in the high quality of educational offerings at the Annual Meeting—and the posters, papers, exhibits, courses, and symposia that will be presented in San Francisco next February may be the best ever. An enhanced application and abstract submission system implemented this year allows for a more complete submission of materials, enabling the selection committees to better judge the quality of the research.

In Memoriam

Mohit Krishan Bhatnagar, MD Potomac, Md. Leonard E. Burton, MD Reston, Va. Edmund Covington Dyas, MD Jan. 23, 2011 Mobile, Ala. Thomas G. Fleischer, MD January 2011 Rock Hill, S.C. Atwood M. Freeman Jr, MD 2007 Tifton, Ga. Jerome J. Gilden, MD Saint Louis, Mo. Perry W. Greene Jr, MD April 8, 2011 Grand Rapids, Mich. William A. Halligan, MD Great Meadows, N.J. Carl P. Herkimer, MD Rancho Mirage, Calif. W. Edward Lansche, MD Sept.