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The American
Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic
Surgeons is a National/International
charitable, non-profit, scientific and
educational society.
The Academy seeks to serve patients'
interests and needs while maintaining high
standards of training, peer review and
continuous medical education from board
certified members in order to better provide
medical care and surgical interventions.
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AANOS
is offering one scholarship in the amount of
$2000 USD to a 3rd or 4th year resident in
the following specialties: orthopaedic
surgery, neurosurgery, or neurology. Please
submit your original article, biography and
Curriculum Vitae to AANOS for review by the
Scholarship Committee.
If selected, your article will be published
in the AANOS Web Journal, and presented at
the next Annual meeting. In addition, you
will be offered to join the Academy,
free-of-charge, for one year.
For all inquiries, deadline and to submit
original article
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Chairman's Corner |
Kazem
Fathie, MD, FICS, FACP, PhD
www.fathie.com
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Physicians
Must Retain Their Compassion for Patients
Today, patient advocacy, as a viable means
to improving the welfare of our society,
finds itself in a rather precarious state,
fought at high pitch in the pain-filled and
bloody trenches of the emergency rooms and
operating rooms of hospitals all over the
country. Physicians' advocacy, meanwhile,
can be likened to white-collar
warfare-though ironically fought in the
pristine halls of justice or the sterile
offices of HMOs and insurance companies.
Through some perverse twist, as we enter the
second millennium, the practice of medicine
has been turned on its head.
How can this have occurred? Our century has
been witness to the marvelous advance of
medical treatment, from Salk's polio vaccine
to Bamard's heart transplant. We lifted the
curse of tuberculosis and have seen babies
come into this world through in-vitro
fertilization. Scientists and physicians
have worked hand in hand to develop
thousands of treatments, surgical
techniques, and pharmaceutical therapies to
relieve the most intense pain, cure the
incurable, and salvage the unsalvageable.
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