2021
We have compiled past issues of the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons and listed features for each issue. You can view the additional content and full issues of the Bulletin by clicking on PDF or Online.
January 2021
Volume 106, Issue 1
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- Presidential Address: Lessons for a rewarding career learned along the way to this podium
- ACS Resident and Associate Society: Diversity, equity, and inclusion in surgical patient care
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion: Leveling the playing field for surgical patients
- Glass ceilings and sticky floors: Examining diversity and inclusion in the surgical workforce
- Mirror, mirror: How current societal issues reflect changes arising in surgery
February 2021
Volume 106, Issue 2
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- 2021 Medicare physician fee schedule: How will it affect your practice?
- Price and cost: Both are important to achieve value-based care
- Olga M. Jonasson, MD, Lecture: Never let a good crisis go to waste: Continuous professional development and COVID-19
- Profiles in surgical research: Dr. Michael Bowdish leads effort to combat COVID-19
- How the San Diego-Imperial Chapter maintained surgical health policy advocacy in the era of COVID-19
March 2021
Volume 106, Issue 3
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- Enhanced web-side manner and digital inclusivity are key to maintaining telehealth momentum
- Leveraging knowledge management for better quality surgical care: An introduction
- Susan Dimock, MD, pioneering American physician
- 2020 ACS Governors Survey: SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the use of telemedicine
- Making the most of virtual interviews with surgical training programs
April 2021
Volume 106, Issue 4
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- Adopting telemedicine in surgical care: What you need to know
- Surgeons wield influence on social media
- Today’s surgeon compensation models fall short: Aligning incentives to create more equitable and value-based compensation models
- The rise and fall of gender identity clinics in the 1960s and 1970s
- Federal surprise billing legislation becomes law
May 2021
Volume 106, Issue 5
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- Social determinants of health and surgery: An overview
- Discussing the role of surgical trainees with patients: Challenges and opportunities
- Well-played: An interview with Dr. Phuong D. Nguyen
- Lunch with Norm
- 2020 ACS Governors Survey: Peer review: A necessity and a challenge
June 2021
Volume 106, Issue 6
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- Digital transformation in health care: The FDA’s perspective
- Interview with Bakul Patel
- The why, what, where, and how of value-based contracts
- The lights go out in Europe during the 1914 Clinical Congress
- Medicare physician payment and effective grassroots advocacy: A case study
July 2021
Volume 106, Issue 7
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- Empowering patients through education: ACS launches Your Breast Cancer Surgery Program
- Opportunities for global volunteerism: How two practices in Michigan make it work
- Expressing value in health care
- Facts about PACs: The role of political programs and the importance of engagement
- Health professionals serving in the 117th Congress
August 2021
Volume 106, Issue 8
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- The surgeon’s role in health policy: An introduction
- Getting started in advocacy and health policy: The ACS can help
- The teaching prerogative and the role of surgeons in educational health policy
- Surgical societies: Their impact on health policy
- Surgeon advocacy in action: Challenges, accomplishments, and future direction
September 2021
Volume 106, Issue 9
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- The intersection of climate change and surgery
- Lessons from COVID-19: Why adaptation is needed for surgical climate readiness
- Surgeon asked colleagues why they chose the profession: Giants of the era responded
- Tips for turning a strategic plan into active advocacy
- A few questions for Steven D. Wexner, MD, FACS, FRCSEng, FRCSEd, FRCSI(Hon), FRCSGlasg(Hon)
October 2021
Volume 106, Issue 10
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- From residency to retirement: Where does equity start? An American surgeon’s northern exposure
- Lessons learned about the ACS Quality Verification Program and pilot hospitals’ pandemic response
- A tribute to Harvey W. Bender, Jr., MD, FACS
- A tribute to Josef E. Fischer, MD, FACS
- YFA Communications Committee Essay Contest 2021: An introduction
November 2021
Volume 106, Issue 11
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- Pearls from ACS past Presidential Addresses
- Excerpts from ACS Presidential Addresses: 1996–2020
- A family affair: Father-son surgeons learn from and admire each other
- ACS Puerto Rico Chapter: Four decades of the Surgical Research Forum and Memorial Lecture
- Fertility preservation in patients with cancer: What the surgeon needs to know
December 2021
Volume 106, Issue 12
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- #SurgeonsSowingHope: Enhanced postoperative recovery and elevated healing
- Surgeon advocacy in state government: Listening and planning for future engagement
- Surgeon perspectives on engaging in state advocacy
- New Surgical Palliative Care Society aims to build community, alleviate suffering
- Statement on Surgeon Well-Being
