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Medical Staff Affairs Monthly

William Cors, MD, MMM, CMSL, Vice President, Medical Staff Services, uses this monthly e-zine to share his observations of emerging challenges and evolving best practices; information about political, regulatory, and legal issues affecting hospitals and their medical staffs; and to identify resources that may prove helpful to medical staff leaders.

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Medical Staff Affairs Monthly

Issue 12, December 12, 2007

• Going, going, gone...

  Add general surgeons to the endangered species list. Josef Fischer MD, in a November 14 article in...

Issue 11, November 15, 2007

• Fiduciary failure: Aberration or standard operating procedure?

  In healthcare, the term "fiduciary" generally conjures up a notion of a hospital board of directors...

Issue 10, October 31, 2007

• MS-DRGs: Breakthrough or another misaligned incentive?

  Beginning in October 2008, CMS will implement the most dramatic restructuring of the DRG system...

Issue 8, August 29, 2007

• A Summer Slow-down in Healthcare - Not this Year!

  Summer is often a time when the pace of life slows down-especially if you are trying to travel...

Issue 2, June 18, 2007

• Growing need for physician retaining programs

  We are entering the hot months of the year and it reminds me that summer school is traditionally a...

Issue 1, January 22, 2007

• Global change is underway in healthcare

  We have entered the seventh year of the 21st century and I am impressed at how quickly old...