Exhibit 10.9a

                                 FIRST AMENDMENT
                                     TO THE
                      PSS WORLD MEDICAL, INC. SAVINGS PLAN


     This First Amendment to the PSS World Medical, Inc. Savings Plan is adopted
by PSS World Medical, Inc. (the "Company") effective as of August 1, 2002.


                              W I T N E S S E T H:

     WHEREAS,  the Company has previously  adopted the PSS World  Medical,  Inc.
Savings Plan (the "Plan") which has been amended from time to time; and

     WHEREAS, the Company is authorized and empowered to further amend the Plan;
and

     WHEREAS,  the Company has  determined  that it is advisable and in the best
interests  of the  participants  in the Plan to amend  the Plan to  provide  for
revised  eligibility  requirements,   unitized  company  stock  investment  fund
provisions,  a new default investment fund, and to make other desired changes to
the Plan.

     NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is hereby amended as follows:

                                       I.

     Section  1.20  of  Article  I has  been  deleted  in its  entirety  and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:

     1.20 "Earnings" attributable to any Pooled Investment Fund shall mean, with
respect to a Valuation Period,  the aggregate of the unrealized  appreciation or
depreciation  accruing to the Pooled  Investment Fund during such a period;  and
the income  earned or the loss  sustained by the Pooled  Investment  Fund during
such period,  whether from  investments  or from the sale or exchange of assets.
The Earnings  attributable to a separate portion of a Segregated Investment Fund
credited to a Participant's Account for any Valuation Period shall be determined
by multiplying  the number of shares of the Segregated  Investment Fund credited
to the Participant's  Account by the difference  between the value of each share
for the current Valuation Date and the value of each share as of the most recent


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preceding  Valuation  Date.  The  Earnings  attributable  to a loan treated as a
separate  portion of a Segregated  Investment  Fund credited to a  Participant's
Accounts for any  Valuation  Period  shall be  determined  and  allocated to the
Participant's Accounts in accordance with standard accounting procedures.

                                       II.

     Section 1.33 of Article I is hereby  deleted in its entirety and the number
is reserved.

                                      III.

     Section 1.52 of Article I is hereby  deleted in its entirety and the number
is reserved.

                                       IV.

     Section  5.2 of  Article  V is  hereby  deleted  in its  entirety  and  the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:

     5.2 Eligibility and Participation.

     (a)  Thereafter,  any Employee of an Employer shall be eligible to become a
Participant  in the  Plan if he has  been  credited  with  ninety  (90)  days of
continuous  service as an Employee of an Employer or an  Affiliate  (or,  before
completing ninety (90) days of continuous  service,  has completed twelve months
of service as an Employee of his Employer or an Affiliate  and has been credited
with not less than 1,000  Hours of Service  during  his first  twelve  months of
service or during any Plan Year).  Any such  eligible  Employee  shall enter the
Plan as a Participant,  if he is still an Employee of an Employer,  on the first
Eligibility  Date occurring  thereafter.  An Employee who has been credited with
ninety (90) days of  continuous  service  with an  Affiliate  (or has  completed
twelve  months of service with the  Affiliate  and has been  credited with 1,000
Hours of Service  during his first  twelve  months of service or during any Plan
Year) prior to  becoming  an  Employee of an Employer  shall enter the Plan as a
Participant on the date he becomes an Employee of an Employer (or, if later,  on
the first  Eligibility  Date  following  the  completion  of his age and service
requirements).

     (b) For each  Employee  previously  employed  by a business  acquired by an
Employer  (directly or through the Employer's  purchase of all or  substantially
all of the assets of the business),  the days of employment  taken into account,



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for purposes of the ninety (90) day eligibility requirement set forth in section
5.2(a), shall include service with the Employee's predecessor employer if:

               (1) the  Employee was employed by the business on the date it was
          acquired by the Employer; and

               (2) the Employee's  predecessor  employer  employed not less than
          twenty (20) employees on the date it was acquired by the Employer.

                                       V.

     Section  6.1(d) of Article VI is hereby  deleted  in its  entirety  and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:

          (d)  Any  salary   reduction   agreement   with  respect  to  Elective
     Contributions  shall be executed  (or  otherwise  communicated  to the Plan
     Administrator  in a manner  selected  by the  Administrator)  and in effect
     prior to the date selected by the Administrator for the first pay period to
     which it applies.  Any initial  salary  reduction  agreement  shall be made
     effective  as soon as  practicable  during  the  month  to  which  it first
     applies.  Any salary reduction  agreement may be revised by the Participant
     monthly  with the approval  of, and as of such date as  determined  by, the
     Administrator   (or   as  of  any   additional   dates   selected   by  the
     Administrator),  for pay periods  beginning after the date such revision is
     executed  and made  effective.  The Plan  Administrator  may accept  salary
     reduction  agreements  with  respect  to (or to the extent  applicable  to)
     bonuses payable to the Participant.

                                       VI.

     The first paragraph of section 6.2 of Article VI (preceding section 6.2(a))
is hereby  deleted in its entirety  and the  following  is  substituted  in lieu
thereof:

     6.2  Additional  Elective  Deferral  Contributions.   Each  Employer  shall
contribute to the Trust, on behalf of each eligible  Participant,  an Additional
Elective Deferral  Contribution as specified in a salary reduction agreement (if
any)  between the  Participant  and such  Employer  under which the  Participant
elects, pursuant to the terms of this Plan, to reduce the Compensation otherwise
payable to him by a contribution amount allocable to his Elective  Contributions
Account.  The Plan Administrator may require the Participant to utilize a single
election for  purposes of his Elective  Contributions  and  Additional  Elective
Contributions.  No Participant shall be permitted to have an Additional Elective
Deferral Contribution made under this Plan for any Plan Year unless he will have
attained  age 50 before the close of the Plan Year and he has taken all  actions
necessary  to maximize  the  Elective  Contributions  allocable  to his Elective



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Contributions  Account for the Plan Year pursuant to section 6.1. No Participant
shall be permitted to have Additional Elective Deferral Contributions made under
this Plan in excess of the lesser of

                                      VII.

     Section  7.2(h) of Article VII is hereby  deleted in its  entirety  and the
number is reserved.

                                      VIII.

     Sections 7.4(a)(1), (2), and (3) of Article VII are hereby deleted in their
entireties and the numbers are reserved.

                                       IX.

     The first sentence of section  7.4(a)(4) of Article VII is hereby  modified
as follows:

               (4) As of each Valuation  Date, any portion of the  Participant's
          Accounts  that is invested  in a Pooled  Investment  Fund  established
          under  section 11.2 shall be credited or charged,  as the case may be,
          with a share of the  Earnings of such Pooled  Investment  Fund for the
          Valuation Period ending with such current Valuation Date.

                                       X.

     Section  7.4(a)(5) of Article VII is hereby deleted in its entirety and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:

               (5) As of each Valuation  Date, the portion of the  Participant's
          Accounts  that  is  invested  in  each   Segregated   Investment  Fund
          established  under  section 11.2 shall be credited or charged,  as the
          case  may be,  with the  Earnings  attributable  to the  Participant's
          investment in such Segregated Investment Fund for the Valuation Period
          ending with such current Valuation Date.

                                       XI.

     Section  9.2(a) of Article IX is hereby  deleted  in its  entirety  and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:

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          (a) The benefits payable under sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 shall be
     paid  to  the   Participant   (or,  if  applicable,   his   beneficiary  or
     beneficiaries),  to the extent  possible,  in cash or in units of  Employer
     Securities  (except that no fractional shares shall be issued and the value
     of any fractional shares to which a Participant would otherwise be entitled
     shall be paid in cash),  as elected by the  Participant (or his beneficiary
     or beneficiaries).  If the Participant elects to receive all or any portion
     of the vested  balance in his  Accounts  in units of  Employer  Securities,
     then, during the sixty (60) day period  immediately  preceding the proposed
     distribution  date of the  benefit  which the  Participant  is  entitled to
     receive under the Plan, the Trustee,  to the extent  possible,  shall apply
     (net  of any  brokerage  commissions)  such  portion  of the  Participant's
     Accounts to the  purchase of the maximum  number of whole units of Employer
     Securities  at their then Fair  Market  Value.  If the Trustee is unable to
     apply any elected  portion of the balance of such  Accounts to the purchase
     of whole  units of  Employer  Securities  within  the said  sixty  (60) day
     period, such elected portion shall be paid in cash.

                                      XII.

     Section  11.1 of  Article  XI is hereby  deleted  in its  entirety  and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:

     11.1 Participant  Directed  Investments.  Each Participant shall direct the
Trustee to invest his Accounts as provided by sections 11.1 through  11.6.  Each
Participant,  whose Accounts were partially invested, prior to April 1, 2002, at
the  direction of the "company  stock fund  trustee" (as defined by the terms of
this Plan prior to this  Amendment  and  Restatement)  may elect on or after the
Effective Date to invest all or any portion of his Accounts  previously invested
in the Company Stock Fund at the  direction of the "company  stock fund trustee"
in any investment  made available by the Plan.  Until a Participant so elects on
or after April 1, 2002,  he shall be deemed to have  elected  that his  Accounts
previously  invested  in the  Company  Stock  Fund by the  "company  stock  fund
trustee"  shall remain  invested as they were  invested  prior to the  Effective
Date.

                                      XIII.

     Section  11.2 of  Article  XI is hereby  deleted  in its  entirety  and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:

     11.2 Investment  Funds.  Subject to the other  requirements of this Article
XI, each Participant may invest his Accounts in one or more Funds made available
to  Participants  through shares of one or more  investment  companies or mutual
funds,  segregated  accounts  invested  in one or  more  of  savings  or  notice


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accounts,  deposits in or certificates issued by a bank,  insurance,  annuity or
other investment contracts, or other appropriate investment vehicles. Funds made
available  to  Participants  shall  include a Company  Stock  Fund,  which shall
consist of a portfolio invested primarily in Employer Securities (and the assets
of  which,  to the  extent  practicable,  shall be fully  invested  in  Employer
Securities   unless  and  to  the  extent   otherwise   required   by  the  Plan
Administrator).  Accordingly  the  Trustee  may  invest all of the assets of the
Employer  Securities  Fund in Employer  Securities.  Employer  Securities may be
purchased or otherwise  acquired by the Trustee from any source,  including  any
party that might be a party in interest  (within the meaning of Section 3(14) of
ERISA) or a disqualified person (within the meaning of Section 4975(e)(2) of the
Code); provided,  however, that if Employer Securities are purchased or acquired
from such a party in interest or disqualified  person, the Trustee shall neither
pay more than  adequate  consideration  (within the meaning of Section  3(18) of
ERISA),   nor  pay  any  commission  to  any  person  in  connection  with  such
acquisition.

                                      XIV.

     Section  11.4 of  Article  XI is hereby  deleted  in its  entirety  and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:

     11.4 Failure to Designate. If a Participant does not specifically designate
the initial  investments for all of his Accounts,  the  Administrator  shall not
accept his initial salary  reduction  agreement.  Except as set forth in section
11.1,  in the event  that a  Participant  is  credited  with  Accounts  prior to
providing the Trustees with directions for the investment of his Accounts,  such
Accounts shall be invested in a money  market/stable  value fund selected by the
Plan Administrator.

                                       XV.

     Sections  12.3(a)  and (b) of  Article  XII are  hereby  deleted  in  their
entireties and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:

          (a) If the  Employer  has a publicly  traded  security,  as defined in
     Labor  Reg.  ss.  2550.404(c)-1(d)(2)(ii)(E)(4)(iii),  any voting and other
     rights with respect to units of Employer Securities  (including  fractional
     shares)  allocated to any  Participant's  portion of the Company Stock Fund
     shall be exercised by the Trustee in accordance with instructions  received
     from such Participant.

          (b) In connection with the exercise of the rights set forth in section
     12.5(a),  the Trustee  shall notify each  Participant  at least thirty (30)
     days  prior  to the  date  upon  which  such  rights  are to be  exercised;
     provided,  however,  that the Trustee shall not be under any  obligation to
     notify  the  Participants  sooner  than it  receives  such  information  as
     security holders of record. In the event the notice received by the Trustee


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     makes it  impossible  for the  Trustee to comply  with such thirty (30) day
     notice requirement, the Trustee shall notify the Participants regarding the
     exercise  of such rights as soon as  practicable.  The  notification  shall
     include all  information  distributed to the security  holders of record by
     the Employer  regarding  the exercise of such rights.  The Trustee shall be
     entitled  to  exercise  such  rights  on the units of  Employer  Securities
     allocated to a Participant's  portion of the Company Stock Fund only to the
     extent that it receives direction from such Participant, and if it does not
     receive direction, it shall not exercise any rights.

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  this First Amendment has been executed this 21st
     day of August 2002, and is effective as of the date set forth hereinabove.


                                          PSS WORLD MEDICAL, INC.

         (Corporate Seal)

                                          By:  /s/ David D. Klarner
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                                                   David D. Klarner
                                          Its:     Vice President