Her patients are a diverse group of people, from young to old, healthy to ill, and interestingly Medicare or private-paying. However, she treats them all with the same degree of respect and the same excellent care, although the changes in medical management have clearly caused her frustration. She also inspires me because she is working to change the establishment. Our next regional meeting is being planned for February 2001. Ron Oudiz and several Associates from our region's 12 Internal Medicine residency programs are actively planning an Associates' meeting for November 2000.
Career planning seems to be high on the agenda.
I would like to encourage everyone to include these funds. Remember, this is the group with the 501C6 charter that can and should take a very active role on behalf of all of the California members of ACP-ASIM, especially when it comes to dealing with the Legislature, the regulatory agencies, the managed care groups, and on and on. If you have input about these or other areas, please let me know through the list serve or other mechanisms. Proposed Senate bill 1875 on Medication Errors in hospitals has been changed to remove the provision that required reporting. It now, appropriately, deals with reducing medication errors.