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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.
"We would like to expand our
core group of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics,
orthopaedics and geriatrics physicians, but all physicians are
encouraged to volunteer," said David Marks, MD, chairman of
the BCMS Emergency Preparedness Committee and a specialist in pulmonary
critical care medicine and sleep medicine at the Pulmonary and Sleep
Institute of San Antonio.
To register as a
physician volunteer, click here, or for
more information,
call 301-4363.
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SAVE
THE DATE FOR
BCMS
EVENTS
BCMS Fishing
Tournament
sponsored by
Gateway Mortgage Group LLC
Stefen Brooks, RMLO
NMLS#229142
Departs from Rockport
For information,
click here
Oct. 16
BCMS Auto Show
5 p.m.-9 p.m.
6243 IH-10 West
parking lot
More information
to
come!
Nov. 1
Women in Medicine Appreciation
11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Omni Hotel at the Colonnade
For sponsorship opportunities, call
210-301-4371.
To reserve tables and buy tickets,
click here
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Bexar County
Psychiatric Society
Evening Learning
Series
What Next:
Healthcare Reform Impact on Physician Practices
6
p.m. Oct. 2
Maggiano's
Little Italy
17603
IH -10
2
hours CME
Presenter:
Donna
Kinney, TMA
Cost:
$20 CME/Food fee for BCPS and BCMS members;
$10
UTHSCSA residents;
$30
food fee for all others
To attend, RSVP to
Walter Root, MD,
BCPS president, at
BCPS@sbcglobal.net
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Disaster Preparedness for Healthcare Workers and Those
Who Care for Vulnerable Populations
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 6
Omni
Hotels and Resorts
9821 Colonnade Blvd.
San Antonio, TX 78230
For more
information,
click here
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TRENDING TOPICS
Attention Group Practices: PQRS participation deadline
is Sept. 30
By Mary E. Nava, MBA
Chief Governmental and Community Relations
Officer
A friendly reminder to all group
practices planning to participate in the 2014 Physician Quality
Reporting System (PQRS) program year using the group practice
reporting option, that in order to do so, practices must register
by Sept. 30, 2014.
This deadline does not apply to
physicians participating as an individual eligible professional
(EP) or to physicians who are members of a group practice, but plan
to participate as individual EPs. To read more about the group
practice reporting option and for a complete list of reporting
options as provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS), click here.
For local discussion on this and other practice
management topics, consider joining the BCMS Legislative and
Socioeconomics Committee by contacting Mary Nava.
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Lecture: 'The Archaeology of Health in the Ancient
Mediterranean World'
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Dr. Alain Touwaide will present a lecture on "The
Archaeology of Health in the Ancient Mediterranean World"
at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 in Chapman Hall at Trinity University.
The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Touwaide is
a science historian who specializes in the history of medicinal
plants in the cultures that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea
from antiquity to the 17th century CE. His lecture is sponsored by
the Southwest Texas Archeological Society (SWTAS), a branch of the
Archeological Institute of America.
Financial
support is being sought to cover the approximate cost of $2,000 for
expenses. Contributions of all sizes are appreciated by the SWTAS,
which is a 501(c)(3) organization. Contributions can be sent to AIA
SWTAS. The check should be mailed to: Laura Childs, 2858
Burning Log, San Antonio, TX 78247. The check should stipulate
Touwaide Lecture.
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About The Weekly Dose
The Weekly Dose is a service of
the Bexar County Medical Society.
Some of the suggestions conveyed may not be applicable
to your practice today, but the goal is to offer information over
time that returns value in excess
of the cost of your membership.
If you would like to recommend future topics to share
with your colleagues,
please submit them to the BCMS Executive Director at steve.fitzer@bcms.org.
All rights reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
Copyright © 2014 Bexar County Medical Society, San
Antonio, Texas.
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