Advocacy

04/3/20

Advocacy in Residency: Why We Should Care, and What We Can Do?
By Alexander J. Skojec, MD
CA-2 Resident of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia

The excuses hardly need repeating - we’re tired. Some of us hardly have enough time for basic self-care. Without question, residency is demanding. Advocacy feels like a chore better left to someone else; someone older or someone no longer in residency. That neither changes the precarious reality of our specialty nor absolves us from our responsibility in shepherding our … [Read more...] about Advocacy in Residency: Why We Should Care, and What We Can Do?
By Alexander J. Skojec, MD
CA-2 Resident of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia

02/26/20

Why Your Involvement In Advocacy Is Essential
By John Butterworth IV, MD
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
VCU Health Systems

The answer to the question posed in the title is very simple. If you don’t advocate for your patients and your profession, who will? You probably wouldn’t want to read about all the misadventures I experienced as a board member and officer in the North Carolina Society of Anesthesiologists (NCSA) and board member of the Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA), but some of … [Read more...] about Why Your Involvement In Advocacy Is Essential
By John Butterworth IV, MD
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
VCU Health Systems

02/22/20

Community Building, Collaboration and Outreach: Get involved in your society today!
By Jeffrey A. Green, MD, MSHA, FASA
VSA President
Vice-Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
VCU Health Systems

In this issue of the newsletter, we stress the importance of involvement in organized medicine. Organized medicine benefits us all in many ways and has a phenomenal record of accomplishment in the United States. Physicians in organized medicine have delivered an amazing record of achievements in healthcare such as the development of standards of practice, codes of ethics, … [Read more...] about Community Building, Collaboration and Outreach: Get involved in your society today!
By Jeffrey A. Green, MD, MSHA, FASA
VSA President
Vice-Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
VCU Health Systems

Brooke Trainer, MD
Editor
brooke@vsahq.org

Daniel H. Gouger, MD
Resident Editor
Daniel.Gouger@vcuhealth.org

The VSA Update newsletter is the publication of the Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc. It is published quarterly. The VSA encourages physicians to submit announcements of changes in professional status including name changes, mergers, retirements, and additions to their groups, as well as notices of illness or death. Anecdotes of experiences with carriers, hospital administration, patient complaints, or risk management issues may be useful to share with your colleagues. Editorial comment in italics may, on occasion, accompany articles. Letters to the editor, news and comments are welcome and should be directed to: Brooke Trainer, MD