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MedTenn 2010
TMA Covers Wide Range of Issues at 175th Meeting
Last month, the Tennessee Medical Association convened in Nashville for the organization's 175th annual meeting. The TMA represents the professional interests of more than 7,800 physicians and 44 component medical societies statewide.
Cindy Sanders |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: Anita Vaughn
It's hard to separate Anita Vaughn, CEO, from Anita Vaughn, citizen of Memphis; so much of her spirit, her goals and her visions are invested in the landmark hospital she planned, built, manages, and clearly loves.
JUDY OTTO |
In the Mainstream: QSource’s Portfolio Expands Well Beyond Government Contract Work
When Memphis-based QSource was unveiled as the Health Information Technology (HIT) Regional Extension Center (REC) for Tennessee as part of a $1 billion American Recovery & Reinvestment Act investment, some business leaders unfamiliar with its work believed it might be a new company formed to provide local technical assistance to effectively implement electronic health records (EHRs) and associated healthcare quality improvement.
Not so.
LYNNE JETER |
Making Sense: University of Memphis Health Law Forum Speakers Decipher Sweeping Changes for Local Healthcare Professionals
Nearly 100 local healthcare professionals representing nonprofit organizations, private companies, law firms and government entities gathered in late March for a day-long forum at the first annual University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law Health Law and Public Policy Symposium. The event, which was presented in partnership with the law firm of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, and sponsored by Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, was chock full of tidbits covering industry trends and regulatory changes in the Memphis medical landscape.
LYNNE JETER |
Tennessee Takes on Obesity
Changing Mindsets from Fat to Fit
With the warmer weather comes the realization that 'bathing suit season' is just around the corner. Once upon a time, this was enough to strike fear in the hearts of both men and women who hoped to lose five pounds by Memorial Day. It didn't bother kids in the least … because children were already lean and strong from playing outdoors and eating healthy, family meals.
CINDY SANDERS |
Aiming High
Healthy Memphis Common Table Shows Shelby County Doctors Provide Diabetes Care Exceeding National Benchmarks; Work Needed on Women’s Health
Shelby County physicians are providing diabetes care that exceeds national benchmarks, according to findings released by the local nonprofit collaborative Healthy Memphis Common Table, but there’s room for improvement in women’s health.
LYNNE JETER |
MEDICAL ECONOMICS: The Integration of Physicians and Hospitals
Four years ago healthcare trend experts predicted increased competition between physicians and hospitals, and the difficult decisions on whether hospitals were going to compete with physicians or find joint venture opportunities in working together.
BILL APPLING |
Breaking Through the OR Glass Ceiling
Women Making Strides in Pursuit of Surgery
When interviewing for postgraduate residency positions soon after giving birth to her third child, Sharona Ross, MD, was very hesitant to bring up the subject of children. She was concerned that divulging having an infant and two small children at home would hinder her chances for a career in surgery.
LYNNE JETER |
| Reimbursements/ACOs Focus |
Before the Breathin' Air is Gone
Luring Physicians "Out in the Country"
Grady, S.C., was one of the lucky rural communities. Unfortunately, it was fictional.
In the 1991 film "Doc Hollywood" with Michael J. Fox, the Porsche Speedster of hotshot plastic surgeon Benjamin Stone breaks down in Grady, and the charms of the community, its people and one woman in particular entice the young physician to hang his family-practice shingle in the rural Southeast.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Susan Murrmann, MD
Sit in the waiting room of McDonald Murrmann Women's Clinic PLC and you'll find the usual pamphlets on women's healthcare. But you'll also be treated to this: a well-produced video extolling the benefits of laser treatments for aging and blemished skin. What makes it noteworthy is that those services are offered through McDonald Murrmann's offices. Susan Murrmann, MD, is one of Memphis' more progressive obstetrician/gynecologists. She specializes in robotic and minimally invasive surgery, is a menopause specialist, and delivers babies through the practice she co-founded with business partner, Mary McDonald, MD. But five years ago, the two started a second practice, the McDonald Murrmann Center for Skin, Laser, and Healthy Aging, an esthetics business for which Murrmann serves as medical director.
JANE SCHNEIDER |
Spotlight on Cancer: Genitourinary Cancer Research and The West Clinic
West Clinic Selected For International Trial Investigating Adjuvant Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma
The West Clinic has been selected to participate in a prestigious international clinical trial for the adjuvant treatment of renal cell carcinoma. The Phase 3 randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial will evaluate oral Sutent or placebo for one year of therapy in the adjuvant setting. The primary end point is disease-free survival. The West Clinic is one of a select few sites in the US selected to participate in the trial.
Brad S. Somer, MD |
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