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BCMS
Emergency Preparedness Committee
seeks
volunteers
The BCMS Emergency Preparedness
Committee is seeking additional physician volunteers who will
comprise teams providing basic medical care during an emergency.
The goal is to
enhance local emergency-response capabilities by adding more
physician volunteers to the emergency preparedness roster.
BCMS is charged with providing medical services for
general and special-needs shelters during the first 72 to 96 hours of
an emergency disaster situation. These may be natural disasters, such
as floods, hurricanes or tornadoes, or those created by humans, such
as terrorism or hazardous spills.
Thoracic surgeon David Cohen, MD,
chair of the BCMS Emergency Preparedness Committee, said he hopes to
have at least 200 physician-volunteers in the core group. All
physicians are encouraged to volunteer.
To register as
a physician volunteer, click here, or for more information,
call 301-4363.
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TRENDING TOPICS
Eight days left in 84th legislative session; sine die is June 1
Chief Governmental and Community Relations
Officer
At the time of this writing,
numerous conference committee hearings are taking place on a
variety of bills. In addition, the Senate is in the final stages of
hearing house bills, and the House is hearing senate bills.
Last week, BCMS member James
Lukefahr, MD, testified on behalf of TMA in the Senate Health and
Human Services Committee in support of House Bill 2171, which would
prevent the automatic deletion of an 18-year-old's immunization
records from the ImmTrac registry and would instead preserve them
until the individual turns 26 years of age. The bill was approved
by the committee on May 21.
Stay tuned to this column as the
84th legislative session continues.
For local discussion on this and other legislative
advocacy topics, consider joining the BCMS Legislative and
Socioeconomics Committee by contacting Mary Nava.
PHOTO ABOVE:
James Lukefahr, MD, seated at the end of the table
(far left, in gray jacket) testifies before the Senate Health and
Human Services Committee on May 20. At the far right end of
the table are San Antonio senators (on the committee), Carlos
Uresti (Dist. 19) and Judith Zaffirini (Dist. 21).
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BCMS supports a Circle of Friends
sponsor at the gold level:
Med MT, Inc.
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Gold-level Circle of Friends sponsors contribute
$5,000 or more to BCMS annually.
Support our sponsors;
our sponsors support us!
Thank you to our BCMS Circle of Friends sponsors! This
information is sent on behalf of a valued sponsor at the gold level,
but it is not an endorsement. Donations from Circle of Friends sponsors
help keep down the cost of dues and allow BCMS to continue to provide
quality service to its members. The society continues its pledge to you
and only will involve itself in services and programs that benefit you,
the member, and your patients.
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BCMS supports a Circle of Friends
sponsor at the silver level:
ProAssurance
Short
Videos Address Healthcare Liability Risks
The ability to
effectively reduce risk is crucial to the success of today's medical
practice. To make it easier for physicians to understand major areas of
risk, ProAssurance's Risk Resource professionals developed a series of
two-minute "What's the Risk?" videos. View
these short videos here. Current topics include:
- Electronic Medical Record
Documentation
- Texting: What Could Be the
Problem?
- The Non-compliant Patient
- The Drug-seeking Patient
- The Limited English Proficient
Patient
- Violence in Healthcare
- Customer Service
Check ProAssurance.com monthly
for new videos to help physicians address the challenges of today's
practice of medicine. Providing quick and easy resources that help
reduce risk and improve patient safety is part of ProAssurance's
Treated Fairly® promise.
Silver-level
Circle of Friends sponsors contribute
$3,000 or
more to BCMS annually.
Support our sponsors;
our sponsors support us!
Thank you to our BCMS Circle of Friends sponsors! This
information is sent on behalf of a valued sponsor at the silver level,
but it is not an endorsement. Donations from Circle of Friends sponsors
help keep down the cost of dues and allow BCMS to continue to provide
quality service to its members. The society continues its pledge to you
and only will involve itself in services and programs that benefit you,
the member, and your patients.
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