AAOS Now July 2007

Volume 1, Number 5

Cover Story

• Are you losing patients to ‘medical tourism’?
• AAOS adopts new clinical practice guidelines
• ‘Bad eggs’ are giving surgeons a black eye

Your AAOS

• Do you want tap water or Evian?
• Setting AAOS Now Straight
• Corporate Advisory Council tackles technology, conflicts of interest
• Upcoming Orthopaedic Meetings of Interest
• Dr. Henry Mankin—Teacher, scientist, friend
• Do you have what it takes to volunteer overseas?
• Ethics for 21st century medicine
• Heels make news—and newsmakers turn to AAOS
• AOFAS initiates new military visitation program
• A Pat on the Back to…
• Board takes professional compliance action
• Society News
• Industry News

Managing Your Practice

• Medicare’s rules on supervision of diagnostic imaging
• Are you spineless—and is it hurting your bottom line?
• Easing the strain of a busy practice
• Opting out of Medicare: Is it for you?
• Punch up your presentations with graphics
• Five ways to put PSAs to work for you
• Bringing new staff up to speed
• Do you believe orthopaedic advertising claims?
• How many ways does this ad violate the SOPs on Advertising?
• Orthopaedic revenues and expenses keep increasing

Clinical News & Views

• PE is ‘ill-defined’ with no ‘clear-cut’ answers
• PE guidelines are a ‘needed, timely alternative’
• AAOS Clinical Guideline on Prevention of Symptomatic Pulmonary Embolism (PE) in Patients Undergoing Total Hip or Knee Arthroplasty
• AAOS Clinical Guideline on Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• How the guidelines came to be
• Is it osteogenesis imperfecta or child abuse?
• Will your implant put you on a ‘no-fly’ list?
• Music therapy helps calm young patients
• Second Look
• Don’t get caught short on MOC required exams

Reimbursement & Regulation

• Radiology utilization presents referral, payment challenges
• State Societies share advocacy strategies at NOLC
• Tort reform results keep rolling in

Research & Technology

• Orthopaedic astronaut studies bone’s response to stress
• Technology assessment: Whether, when, and how?
• Wound management, evacuation key in treating battlefield injuries
• Putting a little sex in your orthopaedic practice
• Treatment update: Using bisphosphonates and PTH for postmenopausal osteoporosis

May 2013
Volume 7, Number 5

• Cover Story
• Clinical News & Views
• Research & Quality
• Managing Your Practice
• Advocacy
• Your AAOS
• Marketplace

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