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Volume 76, Number 7<br />
July 2012<br />
Editor<br />
Douglas R. Bacon, M.D., <a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=1"> </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=2"> L be et our passion your solution. ABC is your p</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=3"> </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=4"> Volume 76, Number 7 July 2012 Edit</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=5"> </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=6"> from the crow's nest The New Faces of Anes</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=7"> suffering human being. The emergency room, in the</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=8"> administrative update About the Division of Prof</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=9"> achieve the goals presented above, investigated u</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=10"> washington report ASA Signifies Advocacy at 2012 </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=11"> recent troubling and unprecedented statements on </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=12"> Continued from page 9 The Johns Hopkins anest</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=13"> Larry Sabato, Ph.D. (From left) Scot</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=14"> Continued from page 11 Ilya Shapiro, J.D. </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=15"> Tuesday’s agenda concluded with a wond</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=16"> Above, from left: Arthur Boudreaux, M.D., James G</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=17"> Jane C.K. Fitch, M.D. R. Lawr</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=18"> asa signifies advocacy: current efforts in the le</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=19"> Fair Payment The Patient Protection and Aff</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=20"> New from ASASponsored by the American Society of </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=21"> Continued from page 17 Patients lack informat</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=22"> advocacy It's in Your DNA! </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=23"> PAC check or by attending a town hall or some oth</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=24"> Advocacy for ASA’s Patient Safety Agenda in State</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=25"> Scope of Practice Where nursing boards have </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=26"> Political/Legislative Relationships Matter </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=27"> have, purely as a result of their passion for the</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=28"> Continued from page 25 recreational activities o</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=29"> Your Best work is Yet to come. Let us help you ac</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=30"> Running for Office? Susan Dobbs Curling, M.D., M.B</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=31"> to interview you, both in the district and outsid</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=32"> Both Sides of the Story: The Art of Compromise to</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=33"> Sponsored by the American Society of Anesthesiolo</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=34"> The End of the Locker-Slamming Generation: ASA Po</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=35"> Executive Vice President and General Counsel at t</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=36"> john w. severinghaus lecture on translational sci</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=37"> ASA CORPORATE SUPPORTER PROgRAm </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=38"> committee news The Committee on Trauma and Emerg</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=39"> Anesthesia History Association Seeks Nomi</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=40"> committee news The Need for a Trauma Anesthesia </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=41"> subspecialty experience under the category “</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=42"> committee news Joseph McIsaac III, M.D., M.S. Co</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=43"> Anesthesiology Continuing Education ACE Questio</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=44"> MHAUS to Offer Writing Award The Malignant H</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=45"> Call for Nominations</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=46"> committee news A 30-year-old woman doing researc</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=47"> Self-Education and Evaluation SEE Question Whi</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=48"> Detailed r</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=49"> shown to be wrong 73 percent of the time (Kroigaa</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=50"> Know Your Quality and Costs practice management </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=51"> Type of Physician Mean Number of Directed Be</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=52"> state beat Lisa C. Percy Albany, J.D. Carly Simp</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=53"> States that have opted out of the federal patient</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=54"> Continued from page 51 the South Carolina Society</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=55"> Physician Payment Louisiana: If a facility-ba</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=56"> what's new in ... COOH: Providing Leadership in </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=57"> n Task Force on Physician Wellness (Chair: </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=58"> subspecialty news SNACC: A Young, Vibrant Organi</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 59" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=59"> Public Relations Initiatives: SNACC continues</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 60" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=60"> Mixing Business With Anesthesia residents' revie</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 61" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=61"> C M Y CM MY CY CMY K </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 62" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=62"> letters to the editor Communication, Rapport and</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 63" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=63"> March NEWSLETTER Cover Speaks to All Ages My </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 64" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=64"> FAER Report Medical Student Program Facilitates </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=65"> The capstone of the MSARF program is the symposiu</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 66" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=66"> NE WSLETTER INDUSTRY PARTNER 2012 Classified</a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 67" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=67"> </a>
<a title="July 2012 ASA Newsletter page 68" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e73a969?page=68"> AQI Data Capture Made Easy. Anesth</a>