President’s Note:
The emphasis for Seattle Surgical Society this year is
on making the Society relevant to your practice. Regardless
of whether you are in private practice or employed, a single-specialty
group or a large multispecialty clinic, a general surgeon
or in a specialty or subspecialty, our effort is on bringing
issues to the forefront that reflect the changes and pressures
that are impacting or are poised to affect all of us in
some way. The panel discussion at April’s meeting,
organized by Dr. Barr, “Are Your Surgeons Happy?”,
was an eye-opener in terms of the contrasts between private
practice and various employed models, and generated honest
and passionate discussion about the issues we face, and
may be repeated with another set of practice models later
this year. At the May meeting there will be a presentation
on the Leapfrog initiative which should not be missed by
anyone. As you know, Leaprfrog is a national business effort
to push the medical establishment to be more accountable
to the business community, and its implications are far-reaching.
Seattle Surgical Society remains first and foremost a collegial
society for interaction and social networking, but in these
rapidly changing times it also offers an opportunity for
us to share in the issues we’re facing, finding areas
of commonality and possible cooperation, and learning from
each other. If you haven’t been to a meeting in a
while, consider coming to the May meeting and re-connecting
with colleagues. And if you haven’t paid your dues,
at least get paid up for this year!
Thanks,
Ralph Aye, MD
President
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