2010 St. Louis Metropolitan Medicine Archives

December Issue

In this issue:

• Presidents Page:
Quality Review Programs Still Have a Long Way to Go

• Executive Vice President:
Health-Care Reform: The Next Steps

• Midwest Health Initiative: Stakeholders Continue to Work to Improve Health Care Outcomes

• Giving Back: Physicians Serve at Com

• Chasing your tail
How do physicians who retire or transition their practices retain insurance coverage for prior events?

• SCAM-Q: Death Panels/The Unwritten Letter to the Editor

October Issue

In this issue:

• Presidents Page:
E-Prescribing Expected to Grow Significantly
Physicians face decisions on when to convert and what system to choose

• Executive Vice President:
The Importance of Participation
Medical Society depends on members to join in and sustain its activities

• A Strategy for Medical Liability Reform
Four approaches to help protect the future of the medical profession

• Electronic Health Records and E-Prescribing:
Is Now the Time?
Federal incentives, future penalties reward those who convert earlier

• Health Care in a Virtual Environment

• SCAM-Q: How insurance companies, hospitals, government, etc.
Slice Costs And Maintain Quality Against Medical Advice

August Issue

In this issue:

• Presidents Page:
What Is the Future of Private Medical Practice?

• Executive Vice President:
Collateral Damage

• To be a hospital employed physician, or not to be? That is the question.

• Where Do I Go From Here?

• Hospitalist Medicine Increases Impact

• SCAM-Q: “We Know That the Health-Care System is Broken”

June 2010

In this issue:

• Presidents Page:
Why Join SLMMS?

• Executive Vice President:
SLMMS Member Benefit MedjetAssist Brings You Home; Other Plans May Not

• Top Ten Reasons Physicians Are Sued for Malpractice

• Why We Belong to SLMMS

• Are You Prepared?

• SCAM-Q

March 2010

In this issue:

• Presidents Page:
Advocating for Our Patients and Engaging Them With Us

• Executive Vice President:
The Power of One

• The Art of Adding a Practice Partner

• Speaking Up for Medicine

January 2010

In this issue:

• Presidents Page: Setting the Agenda for Medicine

• Medical Society Progresses in its Mission to Educate, Represent and Advocate

• Changes in the Graduate Medical Education Population, 1999 to 2009

• Meet Sam Hawatmeh, MD, SLMMS President, 2010

• Roth IRAs: To Convert or Not Convert? That’s the Pressing Question