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Register Today for 2014 Rural Surgery Symposium, May 9-10

Register Today for 2014 Rural Surgery Symposium, May 9-10


Attendance space is limited for the 2014 Rural Surgery Symposium, May 9–10, at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) headquarters in Chicago, IL. The symposium will address issues that affect rural surgery, trends in rural surgery practice, and ACS resources for rural surgeons. Tyler G. Hughes, MD, FACS, an ACS Governor from McPherson, KS, and Chair of the ACS Advisory Council for Rural Surgery, McPherson, KS; and David C. Borgstrom, MD, FACS, a Member of the Advisory Council for Rural Surgery, from Cooperstown, NY, are the Symposium Directors. 

Symposium topics will include the following:
• Rural Health Care Systems—Surgical Perspective
• Benign Liver Lesions—Practical Surgical Management
• Rural Cancer Care
• The Economic Impact of a General Surgeon to a Rural Community
• Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, Stark Law, Critical Access Hospitals—What You Need to Know
• Unusual Cases from the Frontier—“Stump the Chumps” (Symposium participants should bring a case study to share for a panel discussion.) 

To register online, go to the ACS website. 

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