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THE
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Feb. 10, 2019 |
Vol. 8, No. 6 |
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In this
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Feb.
First Tuesdays now in the books The first ‘First Tuesdays’ of the 86th
Legislative Session took place on Feb. 5. Physicians, BCMS Alliance
members and students participated in several meetings with legislators and
staff. A number of topics were discussed, including: Graduate
medical education (GME); physician loan repayment; Medicaid reimbursement;
maternal mortality and telemedicine. Many thanks to the attendees, who made
our visits at the Capitol a success: Physicians - Dan Deane, MD;
Pam Hall, MD; Alex Kenton, MD; Jayesh Shah, MD and John Shepherd, MD; Alliance
members – James Duerr; Jennifer Lewis and Jenny Shepherd; and medical
students, Marc Ghoson from UIW; and from UT Health – Phil Acosta; Dana
Glaser; Karan Vir Goenka; Glory Hughes; Jessie Larouere; Swetha Maddipudi;
Sharon Mathi; Jen Nordhauser; Cory Nun; Sushmitha Ramesh; Sabi Shrestha;
Vanessa Trivino; Luke Verlinsky; Ryan Wealther and Chelsea Wu. The next First Tuesdays is on March
5. We encourage all our members to get involved and participate in at
least one First Tuesday this session. To register, please visit: www.texmed.org/FirstTuesdays For local discussion on these and other
legislative advocacy topics, consider joining the BCMS Legislative and
Socioeconomics Committee by contacting Mary Nava, chief government affairs
officer at mary.nava@bcms.org. |
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The Bexar County Medical Society is proud to Welcome
these Renewing Sponsors to our Circle of Friends program. |
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Thank you to our BCMS Circle of Friends
sponsors! 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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