2012
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January 2012
Volume 97, Issue 1
- Medical liability reform: Evidence for legislative and alternative approaches
- Sanctity and organ donation’s societal value
- Invited commentary: Sanctity and organ donation’s societal value in an opt-out country: The Austrian experience
- CPT 2012 brings with it new codes and code changes
- Highlights of the 97th Annual Clinical Congress
February 2012
Volume 97, Issue 2
- Gynecologic oncology surgeons spare patients’ fertility, enhance quality of life
- Maximizing postgraduate surgical education in the future
- Learning about health care in Africa: A physician’s experience in Lagos, Nigeria
- Confronting the ethics, myths, and legends of restrictive covenants in the era of the contract surgeon
- Expectations for state legislatures in 2012
March 2012
Volume 97, Issue 3
- Cultural competence: Why surgeons should care
- A crisis in the ED: Liability protection needed STAT
- Survey shows social media usage increasing among ACS Fellows
- Setting the record straight: The real history of Poland’s syndrome
April 2012
Volume 97, Issue 4
- Common origins: The two ACSs—100 years of collaboration to improve the lives of cancer patients
- Cancer care closer to home: Dr. McKellar ensures rural patients get quality care
- Surgeons experience more ergonomic stress in the OR
- Recycling the retired surgeon: Surgical assisting—A Canadian’s perspective
May 2012
Volume 97, Issue 5
- Leadership skills in the OR: Part I: Communication helps surgeons avoid pitfalls
- Physician leadership and the future of surgical practice
- Sustainable growth rate repeal: The bandages are running out
- A heart-to-heart with cardiothoracic surgeon and TV host Dr. Oz
- State of the states: Defining surgery
- Joint statement by the ACS and SAGES on FLS completion for general surgeons who perform laparoscopy
June 2012
Volume 97, Issue 6
- Public reporting of health care data: A new frontier in quality improvement
- Joining Forces and the ACS: Dr. Holcomb dedicates career to improving trauma care for soldiers and civilians
- Leadership skills in the OR: Part II: Recognizing disruptive behavior
- Team approach minimizes risks in separating conjoined twins: An interview with Gary Hartman, MD, FACS
July 2012
Volume 97, Issue 7
- Twenty-first century surgery: Have we entered uncharted waters?
- Health information technology, meaningful use criteria, and their effects on surgeons
- Enhancing American surgical training: Meeting the challenge of a globalizing world
- ACS Board of Governors committee updates: Governors’ Committee on Chapter Relations
- Governors’ Committee to Study the Fiscal Affairs of the College
- ASSET: An effective educational experience for practicing surgeons
- 2012 Clinical Congress Preliminary Program
August 2012
Volume 97, Issue 8
- From the Chair of the RAS-ACS: Leadership skills continue to serve past RAS-ACS Chairs in their current roles
- Surgical leadership and political advocacy
- Advanced degrees for surgeons and their impact on leadership
- Women leaders in surgery: Past, present, and future
- Surgical leadership across generations
- Surgery at the end of life: For love or money?
- From battlefield to bedside—and back again
- Training global surgery fellows
September 2012
Volume 97, Issue 9
- ACS Futures Committee takes a good, hard look at the year 2025
- The Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons: Keeping Fellows informed for nearly 100 years
- American College of Surgeons Bulletin No. 1: Requirements for Admission to Fellowship
- The near-death of a president, and the birth of a career: An interview with Dr. Napolitano
- The ACS and the ABCs of how quality measures are established and implemented
- Capt. Brad Cooper provides an update on Joining Forces initiative
October 2012
Volume 97, Issue 10
- New approaches to surgical volunteerism
- Task shifting overcomes the limitations of volunteerism in developing nations
- Using telemedicine to strengthen medical systems in limited-resource countries
- ACS takes a stand on policies impacting the surgical workforce
- Why the 2012 elections matter to you—the surgeon
- ACS Bulletin: 1919 Hospital Standardization Series report
November 2012
Volume 97, Issue 11
- The critical state of graduate medical education funding
- RAS Issues Symposium: Surgery at the end of life: For love or money?
- An argument against heroic intervention
- Reining in the scalpel
- Enhancing surgical advocacy at the state level: The Day at the State Capitol grant program in action
- Progress report: Northern California Chapter’s legislative activities
- Short-term surgical missions make a difference: A life-changing case in Ibi, Nigeria
- Cruise to South America: The College’s first international outreach effort
December 2012
Volume 97, Issue 12
- Presidential Address: The next hundred years
- The 112th Congress: The year in review
- Controlling state health care costs: Massachusetts forges ahead
- 2012 Executive Director’s annual report
- A look at the College’s first registry: The Bone Sarcoma Registry
