ASIPP is offering a new feature for those who advertise on our Postions Wanted section of the ASIPP Website. As a service to our advertisers and our members, we will list the link to each current job posting.

Entrepreneurial Opportunity — Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Florida Opportunities

Pain Medicine Fellowship Program Opportunity

Interventional Pain Specialist -- Toledo, OH

Interventional Pain Specialist -- Paducah, KY and Marion, IL

Interventional Pain Medicine Physician – St. Cloud, Minnesota

Entrepreneurial Opportunity -- BE/BC Fellowship Trained Pain Physician(s)

Musculoskeletal Interventionalist -- Dallas, Texas

100% Pain Practice For an Anesthesiologist or Physiatrist -- Wisconsin

Pain Management Openings Fellowship Opportunities -- Florida

Interventional Physiatrist -- Wilmington, North Carolina

Pain Specialist -- Wisconsin

PainCare Holding, Inc.

We still have much work ahead of us to make an impact in the pending cuts to physician payments, office procedures, ambulatory surgery centers as well as a lack of funding for NASPER.

I urge you to take this matter seriously and begin today to send your letters to Congress. If you have already done so, continue to get signatures from your patients and encourage your colleagues to get involved as well. Today's complacency will become tomorrow's urgency.

To send a letter from yourself click on the Physician Capwiz Letter link below. You may edit the letter or send it as it is. You may send it through Capwiz or fax or mail the letter on your personal or business letterhead. The choice is yours.

We have created a link for physicians as well as a link for staff, family, friends and patients.

Please take the time to send a letter today. Additionally, we urge you to have your patients sign the letter and support this effort as well.

• Capwiz Physician Letter
• Capwiz Patient Letter
• Capwiz Staff Letter
• Capwiz Citizen Letter
  

1. Customize and print off copies of the sample
2. Identify patients' state, putting the names of their Senators and Representative at the top of the page along with the President. Only one letter with all the names is necessary (see example).
3. As your patients sign out, ask them to fill out and
4. Using the patient Capwiz link assign a staff
5. Also you can print off the ASIPP Advocacy page and post or hand out to your patients for more information
   

• Example Physician Letter
• Example Patient Letter
• Example Staff Letter
• Example Citizen Letter

Online registration is open for the upcoming Dec. specialty course in spinal cord stimulation. This intensive review course and cadaver workshop will provide a comprhehensive learning experience focusing on various aspects of spianl cord stimulation.

The course will be conucted at the famous Peabody Hotel and the Medical Education Research Institute in Memphis, TN.

Brochure

PENSACOLA - A 76-year-old former Panama City doctor received a 20-year federal prison sentence Thursday for over-prescribing addictive narcotics including oxycodone, methadone and morphine.

U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers sentenced John Q. Durfey, who was a licensed physician practicing until late last year at the Emerald Coast Pain Center in Panama City.

BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Timothy Connick was in agony for six years. In bed at night, it felt as if a pair of scissors was sticking out of his foot.Connick is among millions. As many as one in three American adults suffer from chronic pain. (Fortin, CNN.com, Sept. 24, 2007)

CNN.com

A broad House majority gave final approval last night to a $35 billion expansion of the popular children's health insurance program, with members from both parties brushing aside a stern veto threat from President Bush to vote their support, 265 to 159.

The Senate will take up the bill later this week and is expected to send it to the president with a veto-proof, bipartisan majority. But amid furious White House lobbying, even Republican advocates in the House ruefully conceded that they will probably fall short of the 290 votes they will need next week to override the promised veto.

Washington Post

Interventional Techniques In Chronic Spinal Pain is now availabe for purchase and all pre-order purchases have been shipped. Each book comes with a complimentary CD of the book.

Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain, is the premier manual for interventionalists. With detailed descriptions of practical techniques in interventional pain management this is a must have publication for all interventioanl pain physicians.

If you have not yet ordered your copy, you can do so by visiting the ASIPP Web site.

ASIPP Publishing

Although the rainy season was coming on fast, Zainabu Sesay was in no shape to help her husband. Ditches had to be dug to protect their cassava and peanuts, and their mud hut's palm roof was sliding off. (New York Times - S. Leone, Sept. 10, 2007)

Like millions of others in the world's poorest countries, she is destined to die in pain. She cannot get the drug she needs -- one that is cheap, effective, perfectly legal for medical uses under treaties signed by virtually every country, made in large quantities, and has been around since Hippocrates praised its source, the opium poppy. She cannot get morphine.

New York Times

Physicians in New Hampshire are being offered a variety of incentives to participate in a statewide e- prescribing program, the latest initiative by the Blue Cross Blue Shield organization designed to improve patient safety, control costs and reduce medication errors.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative, created by Gov. John Lynch, launched a statewide electronic prescribing, or e-prescribing, program for every physician office in the Granite State, reports the insurer.

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