The DJP Update

DJP Update 6-12-2010 Live from the AMA House of Delegates Chicago – 2010 Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting has started!

Nominations for various positions starting now.

Here are some tweets from Chicago.

www.Twitter.com/DJPNEWS

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DJPNEWS

Now: Dr Rohack giving speech HoD #AMA: when tsunami #Medicare perhaps Congress will allow private contracting & balance-billing

less than 5 seconds ago via web

Chicago Blackhawks & Stanley Trophy celebration 6-11-2010 Hyatt – IPhone fuzzy photo on escalator – note trophy http://twitpic.com/1w8cs4

38 minutes ago via Twitpic

June 12, 2010 start of AMA Annual Meeting Chicago – singing of National Anthem http://twitpic.com/1w88gb

about 1 hour ago via Twitpic

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Stay well,

Donald

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DJP Update 6-4-2010 BP oil spill in Gulf – The pictures of the Pelicans say it all

Picture of Louisiana Brown Pelican at East Grand Terre Island Louisiana Coast covered in oil from BP oil spill in Gulf

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/06/gulf-oil-spill-pelicans.html

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/04/1663037/as-gulf-spill-oil-nears-pensacola.html

Another Pelican in treatment

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/us/05pelican.html

The beautiful Brown Pelican, Louisiana’s State Bird, in better days.

http://donb.photo.net/photo_cd/d/b21.jpg

Some of you remember my images of shore birds and our famous Pelican from my campaigns for the Board and Presidency of AMA:

http://www.naturesreflectionslimited.com/

and my favorite Pelican image:

http://www.naturesreflectionslimited.com/pelican.html

This is a time for all to show leadership, stop the leak, AND implement “Lessons Learned”.

Just like we learned the lessons in New Orleans from Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and in the mock Hurricane Pam of 2005 for New Orleans planned and executed by Fed, State, and local authorities that I describe in my book, but they were put in planning and disaster documents and placed in closets. Hurricane Katrina of 2005 showed what happens when the lessons learned are disregarded. Planning, leadership, communication, contingency plans are recurrent themes that are forgotten. In risk management I teach that one must be prepared for the unexpected: http://www.donaldpalmisano.com/html/risk.html

The possibility that an oil well deep in the ocean could leak SHOULD NOT BE UNEXPECTED. And a good analysis would investigate why we are drilling that deep in the ocean. What are the alternatives? Why is the risk of the alternatives? And so on.

When I was in the military, we had disaster drills. One day, a B-52 back from Vietnam crashed at our USAF landing strip in South Dakota. Despite a raging fire melting the plane and people trapped in the plane, everyone was saved. Why? Because the USAF was prepared and all knew their responsibility and were competent to carry it out.

Sad times for the Gulf Coast and all of America.

Stay well,

Donald

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Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD
Intrepid Resources® / The Medical Risk Manager Company
5000 West Esplanade Ave., #432
Metairie, Louisiana USA 70006
504-455-5895 office
504-455-9392 fax
DJP@donaldpalmisano.com
www.donaldpalmisano.com
www.onleadership.us

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DJP Update 6-2-2010 Bravo to Florida Medical Association!

Be sure to click on link to FMA statement on SGR in my tweet below. This is what AMA should be doing!! Advocate the right of patients and physicians to privately contract without penalty. And do as FMA says, convert to a defined contribution program.

This approach of private contracting also has been advocated in its principles by the Coalition of State Medical and National Specialty Societies, an entity with over 80,000 physicians and three former presidents of AMA. Dr. Todd Williamson of Medical Association of Georgia gave testimony in Washington this week on this subject on behalf of the Coalition State/Specialty.

AMA just announced a large upcoming ad campaign about the SGR “DocFix”. Let’s see if AMA even mentions private contracting without penalty and balance-billing. These are policies of the AMA and were voted to be among the highest advocacy items of AMA by the policy-making body of AMA, the House of Delegates.

I have placed below a couple of my recent tweets on this topic from www.Twitter.com/DJPNEWS

Note the second one gives a link to an attack on doctors. Let me repeat myself: When government micromanagement and price-fixing fails, the doctors will be blamed. It is the nature of Congress and those who fail to understand that only doctors deliver medical care in the USA that is the envy of the world.

Tweets on the SGR & “DocFix” at www.Twitter.com/DJPNEWS

DJPNEWS: Bravo to #FloridaMedicalAssociation re #DocFix & #SGR; this is what AMA should be advocating! http://tinyurl.com/288hqvs

tweeted 1 hour ago

DJPNEWS: As predicted in #DJPUpdates : when price-fixing SGR fails, docs will be blamed! Restore liberty! http://tinyurl.com/28c735j

tweeted 9 hours ago.

LAGNIAPPE: If AMA does not get the message soon, membership will continue to decline and other organizations will arise and become the dominant force representing the practicing physicians in America. You can count on that. The clock is ticking, AMA. Time to follow specific AMA policy, restore liberty, and stop being a press agent for those who passed the disaster in the details health bill. The 21% cut is in effect now. But let us also remember that the cut also affects the families of the brave men and women in the military who are on TriCare. Shame on Congress.

And AMA, the substitution of another price-fixing formula or a delay in implementation of the cuts IS NOT A WIN. Think Pyrrhic Victory.

The Annual Meeting of the AMA is June 11-16 in Chicago (11th is OSMAP). Make your voices heard!

Stay well,

Donald

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Also, recent selected DJP Updates can be found at: http://www.donaldpalmisano.com/html/djp_update/

Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD
Intrepid Resources® / The Medical Risk Manager Company
5000 West Esplanade Ave., #432
Metairie, Louisiana USA 70006
504-455-5895 office
504-455-9392 fax
DJP@donaldpalmisano.com
www.donaldpalmisano.com
www.onleadership.us

This DJP Update goes to 2248 leaders in Medicine representing all of the State Medical Associations and over 100 Specialty Societies plus some other friends.
You can share it with your members and it has the potential to reach 800,000 physicians.
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