Download the May Issue of the ACMS Bulletin
This month’s beautiful cover photo is called “Waterfall” by Nina Verghis, MD. Inside this issue, you’ll find articles such as May Adventures by Deval (Reshma) Paranjpe, MD; Appropriateness by Richard H. Daffner, MD; and Neighbors Helping Neighbors by Jessica Carlson, Hannah Hamlin, and Tony DiGioia, MD.
Download the April Issue of the ACMS Bulletin
Updated: May 27, 2022 “Lake McDonald—Glacier Park” by David Sacco, MD is this month’s cover photo. Inside this issue, you’ll find articles such as Spring Nourishment by Deval (Reshma) Paranjpe, MD; Doomed from Birth: The Ida May Fuller Story by Joseph C. Paviglianiti, MD; and Running Boston Backwards by Anthony L. Kovatch, MD.
Download the March Issue of the ACMS Bulletin
Updated: Mar 29, 2022 This month’s incredible cover photo is called “Tranquility, Cooks Forest” by Alexandra Kreps, MD. Inside this issue, you’ll find articles including Love thy neighbor by Deval (Reshma) Paranjpe, MD; Move it or lose it by Terence W. Starz, MD and What is the future of cybersecurity in health care? by Bruce Wilder, […]
Allegheny County Medical Society Announces New Executive Director
Top Association Executive to Lead County Medical Association The Board of Directors of the Allegheny County Medical Society (ACMS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sara C. Hussey, MBA, CAE as its new Executive Director. The selection marks the first time in ACMS’s 157- year history that a woman will helm the county society. […]
The February Issue of the ACMS Bulletin is Now Available
Updated: Mar 26, 2022 This month’s incredible cover photo is called “Pittsburgh Sunrise” by Terence Starz, MD. Inside this issue, you’ll find articles including Take That, Pharma Boys, and Covid-19 and Disciplinary Actions Against Physicians.
Happy New Year! Start the year with the January Issue of the ACMS Bulletin
Updated: Feb 9, 2022 This months incredible cover photo is called “River Lightning” by Malcolm Burger, MD. Inside this issue you’ll find articles including A “Professional Patient’s” Journey to Burnout, It’s been a while… Since 2013, and What Physicians need to know about the No Surprise Act.
The November Bulletin is Now Available!
This months incredible cover photo is called “Pittsburgh Reflections at Sunset” by Mark E. Thompson, MD. Inside this issue you’ll find articles including The 2021 PAMED House of Delegates Report, Let’s Talk about Prior Auth!, and Medical Historic vignette: Child Abuse. Read More: Bulletin_1121-website
Yesterday’s woman doctor
I graduated high school in 1962 and spent my youth in mid-century America in the 1950s. I went to the Catholic grammar school in a neighborhood on the southside of Chicago, a middle-class neighborhood that saw generations of the same families raising their families, something akin to a small town in the larger city of […]
Reading Room Rules
Over the five years that I have been writing Perspectives and/or Editorials for the Bulletin, I often have been asked by physician friends from where I get my ideas for my columns. My long medical career, that spans nearly 60 years (including medical school), has allowed me to see the many aspects of our profession. […]
The end of balance billing?
The federal No Surprises Act (the Act), which was signed into law Dec. 27, 2020, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, ensured that all Americans had protection from surprise medical billing/balance billing when using out-of-network providers or facilities under certain circumstances. On July 1, 2021, the Biden administration released a series of […]