Vital Signs: Physicians Keep the Economy Healthy
David O. Barbe, MD President, American Medical Association Mountain Grove, MO As physicians, we carry tremendous responsibility as trusted confidants, patient advocates and leaders of the health care team. But our positive impact extends far beyond the exam room. We keep the economy healthy too. This year, the American Medical Association (AMA) published a study […]
AMA Honors Katie O. Orrico with Lifetime Achievement Award
From time to time you will see us promote items on Neurosurgery Blog in order to spotlight some great things which are born out of the many individuals who work on behalf of organized neurosurgery. For our post today we would like to highlight that earlier this week, the American Medical Association awarded Katie O. […]
Distinguished Panel Throws Down the Concussion Gauntlet: AANS Opening Ceremonies
Guest post from Brent R. O’Neill, MD Pediatric Neurosurgeon University of Colorado, Children’s Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO A retired pro-linebacker, an army general, a cable news personality, and a neurosurgeon walk into a bar . . . Actually, on May 1, 2016, they walked into Chicago’s McCormick Place for the Opening Ceremonies of the 84th […]
Military Faces of Neurosurgery – A Hero So Named
Carlos A. David, MD, FAANS Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Tufts University School of Medicine Director of Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center Burlington, MA It is shortly after midnight, April 17, 1961. The paratroopers of “A” company, 1st Battalion anxiously await the moment their C-46 plane will be airborne. One paratrooper […]
Neurosurgical GME Inspiring Innovation: The Research Update in Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons (RUNN) Course
Allan H. Friedman, MD, FAANS (left) The Guy L. Odom Professor of Neurological Surgery Department of Neurosurgery Duke University Health System Durham, NC Robert M. Friedlander, MD, FAANS (right) Chair, Walter E. Dandy Professor of Neurological Surgery University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, PA We take the brightest and most creative medical students on the […]
Faces of Neurosurgery: Legacy Lineage-Cushing, Van Wagenen and Marko
Guest post from Kristopher T. Kimmell, MD Neurosurgical Resident, University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY The training of all physicians is a long and arduous path. After college, there are four years of medical school. The first years are dedicated to understanding the underpinnings of biologic processes and how diseases derange this normal functioning in […]
Achieving Accountability for Graduate Medical Education
Atul Grover, MD, PhD Executive Vice President Association of American Medical Colleges Washington, DC “Accountability” is a word that comes up often in all aspects of my professional endeavors, whether it is the emergence of accountable care organizations (ACOs) — which have eclipsed the health maintenance organizations (HMOs) of a generation ago — or the […]
Faces of Neurosurgery: Remembering Katrina and the Neurosurgeons who Risked Everything to Care for Patients
Guest post from Kristopher T. Kimmell, MD Neurosurgical Resident, University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana. Shortly after, New Orleans was engulfed in its destructive path and the storm’s surge inundated the city. Katrina’s wake left the most expensive natural disaster in United States […]
Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Stroke Risk Reduction in Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation Offers Clinical and Economic Value
Guest Post from Kenneth Stein, MD, FACC, FHRS Chief Medical Officer Rhythm Management Division at Boston Scientific Corporation, a global medical technology company which manufactures the Watchman LAAC Device. Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects nearly nine percent of all Medicare beneficiaries and represents a significant source of stroke burden.[i] AF patients are five times more likely […]
Going Over the Fiscal Cliff will Hurt Patients
Today, Roll Call Newspaper (Capitol Hill’s paper of record) published a Guest Opinion piece featuring the Alliance of Specialty Medicine and our own Alex Valadka, the Alliance’s spokesperson and chair of the AANS/CNS Washington Committee. The article, “Doctors: We Gave at the Office, and Then Some” addresses the idea that preventing the pending SGR cuts […]