AAOS Now April 2008

Volume 2, Number 4

Cover Story

• “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help…”
• Patient stories make the case
• Meet your new Board members

Your AAOS

• The 30s: From depression to innovation
• Readers have theories about women in orthopaedics
• Advocacy, unity, diversity
• Academy examines impact of investigations
• Claudia Thomas, MD, wins 2008 Diversity Award
  See the Diversity Award presentation
• “It’s simple: Teach what you know”
  See the Humanitarian Award presentation
• Board issues censure in professional compliance case
• Automatic Professional Compliance Actions
• Orthopaedic “Road Warrior”
• OREF honors Schafer with Leadership Award
• A Pat on the Back….
• Leadership Fellows Program celebrates 6th anniversary
• Second Look
• In Memoriam
• Kristy L. Weber, MD, to chair CORQAT
• AAOS embraces the world
• New PSAs tout orthopaedic benefits
• Another playground springs up in San Francisco
• Looking back at previous playgrounds
• AAOS 2008 Playground Sponsors
• Don’t forget to vote!

Managing Your Practice

• Place of service affects your reimbursement
• The quality initiative alphabet soup
• Healthcare, medical liability, and reform alternatives
• Three perspectives on expert witness testimony
• AAOS/AMA to conduct Practice Information Study
• Research Awards: Call for Papers
• Retirement: An orthopaedic surgeon’s perspective
• The orthopaedist and the workers’ compensation patient
• Coping with malpractice stress

Clinical News & Views

• Don’t discount aspirin for DVT prevention
• Good news, bad news on ACL reconstruction
• Do gender-specific implants make a clinical difference?
• The hip resurfacing/hip replacement debate
• Poor outcomes probable with ACL revisions
• Do you understand what I’m saying?
• Tandem surgery better for shoulder dislocation
• AAOS/AAHKS satellite program “unprecedented”
• Take advantage of CME and SAE offerings from AAOS
• Repairing “irreparable” rotator cuff tears with biologic tissue
• Meetings and Course Listings

Reimbursement & Regulation

• Issues facing America: Consumer-directed health care
• Orthopaedic patients, surgeons, researchers take part in Research Capitol Hill Days
• Turning isolation into action
• Law journal publishes AAOS view on POPTS
• Want to make a difference? Speak up!
• Society News

Research & Technology

• Moving forward without losing the past
• RDC meets with NIH officials on “orthopaedic agenda”
• Keeping the “E” in OREF

May 2013
Volume 7, Number 5

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

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