For what we stand
Article Abstract:
The Society of Gynecologic Surgeons must lead the struggle for obstetrician/gynecologists to remain specialists. Managed care is pressuring obstetrician/gynecologists to become primary care providers, which means adding general medicine to their training. This means less time gaining surgical expertise. The Society of Gynecologic Surgeons was founded in 1974 to promote greater surgical skills and knowledge even before the many recent technological innovations in gynecologic surgery and these new pressures. Obstetrician/gynecologists must defend their right to be secondary care physicians, referring to tertiary care specialists such as perinatologists and infertility surgeons, but preserving their own specialist skills.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 1996
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Does the "C" in JCAHO Stand for Change?
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An examination is made of the the development of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations from its beginning to a discussion on future challenges. The organization developed from an initiative to standardize hospital systems and equipment and when it evolved from the American College of Surgeons in 1912. As it approaches the 21st century the organization's goal to improve patient outcome now includes systems and equipment provided via satellite, telemedicine or robots.
Publication Name: Nursing Administration Quarterly
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0363-9568
Year: 1999
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