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ROUNDS PPACA tops fall conference agenda Goal: 50,000 members!


Academic physicians: Get the credit you’re due


Leaders plan breakthrough strategies to help practices survive Dr. Janek to head HHSC Charles Dryden, MD: 1920–2012 Saving Hearts — Saving Lives


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JOURNAL


Clinical service characteristics and initiation of the human papillomavirus vaccination series in an academic clinic setting


Full text available at www.texmed .org/Oct12Journal/.


HEALTHY VISION 2020


Repeal Harmful and Onerous State and Federal Regulations


About the cover


Neurologist Sara Austin, MD, does a needle electromyography in her Austin office. TMA’s belief that only skilled physicians should perform such procedures is why it successfully opposed chiropractors’ attempts to begin doing them.


PHOTO BY MATT RAINWATERS 16 Scope Whac-A-Mole


TMA doesn’t always oppose scope-of-practice expansion by nonphysi- cians. It believes it’s appropriate when it improves patient care and nonphysicians are properly trained, when a physician heads the health care team, and when there is proper Texas Medical Board oversight. BY CRYSTAL CONDE


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