Alberta Doctors' Digest

Welcome to the September/October 2012 podcast of the Alberta Doctors' Digest, with host and editor-in-chief Marvin Polis. In this issue, listen to our usual departments including: From the Editor, Insurance Insights, Health Law Update, Mind Your Own Business, Residents' Page, PFSP Perspectives, Web-footed MD and In a Different Vein. In addition, we you can hear about Alberta's leadership in academic medicine, physician advocacy, the AMA's new Twitter account, better bariatric surgery referrals, MS, the annual North/South Doctors golf tournament and scrutinizing PCNs.

Welcome to the July/August 2012 podcast of the Alberta Doctors' Digest, with host and editor-in-chief Marvin Polis. In this issue, listen to our usual departments including: From the Editor, Insurance Insights, Health Law Update, Mind Your Own Business, Students' Voice, PFSP Perspectives, Web-footed MD and In a Different Vein. In addition, we feature Alberta's tri-profession conference, projects funded with help from the Emerging Leaders in Health Promotion grant program, the results of our readership survey, new features on the AMA website and the winner of the TD Insurance Meloche Monnex/AMA scholarship.

Welcome to the May/June 2012 podcast of the Alberta Doctors' Digest, with host and editor-in-chief Marvin Polis. In this issue, listen to our usual departments including: From the Editor, Insurance Insights, Health Law Update, Mind Your Own Business, Residents' Page, PFSP Perspectives, Web-footed MD and In a Different Vein. In addition, you can hear about the new AMA website, why Dr. Louis Hugo Francescutti is heading to the CMA, what happened at the Alberta medical student conference and retreat, how to make sure your patients understand your office signage and why you should write a book!

Welcome to the March/April 2012 podcast of the Alberta Doctors' Digest, with host and editor-in-chief Marvin Polis. In this issue, listen to our usual departments including: From the Editor, Insurance Insights, Health Law Update, Mind Your Own Business, PFSP Perspectives, Web-footed MD and In a Different Vein. In addition, we feature physicians' New Year's resolutions for the health care system, patient privacy, the ADIUM student travel grant, responding to adverse events and thoughts from the profession on paying pharmacists to prescribe.

Welcome to the inaugural podcast of the Alberta Doctors' Digest, with host and editor-in-chief Marvin Polis. In this issue, listen to our usual departments, including: From the Editor, Insurance Insights, Health Law Update, Mind Your Own Business, Residents' Page, PFSP Perspectives, Web-footed MD and In a Different Vein. In addition, we feature the results from the AMA member opinion tracker survey, AMA achievement award nominations, more information about Tarrant Scholarship applications, how activity can help prevent seniors’ falls, the Primary Care Alliance – a new representation structure for primary care, and the TD Meloche Monnex-AMA Scholarship.