It’s Time to Fund MISSION ZERO
It’s been five years since the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) released a report titled, “A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury.” Having led a model for military-civilian collaboration at the Army Trauma Training Center in Miami, Fla., I was invited […]
Reflecting on COVID19, the Death of George Floyd and the Need for Change
“I want to touch the world.” George Perry Floyd, Jr. We are living in trying and turbulent times in our country. A global pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people across America and has threatened to overwhelm our health care systems in some of the worst affected areas. On top of this […]
Cross Post – Alexa Canady, MD: Neurosurgeon, Mentor and Olga Jonasson, MD, Lecturer
Alexa Canady, MD From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog you will see us cross-posting pieces from other places when we believe they really hit the mark on an issue. During black history month, Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, spotlighted Alexa Canady, MD, FAANS(L), the first African-American woman neurosurgeon in the US. Throughout […]
Congress Makes Significant Progress on Physician Payment Reform
On Feb. 6, 2014, the Senate Finance, House Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committees released bipartisan legislation to repeal Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) physician payment system. The “SGR Repeal and Medicare Payment Modernization Act ” (S. 2000/H.R. 4015), establishes a new streamlined value-based incentive payment system called the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, or […]