Editors: Ellen W. McKnight, M.D. | Erica Huffman, Executive Director
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Bulletin MAY/JUNE 2015 VOLUME 45, NO. 3
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE It is hard to believe we are almost half way through the year already. It seems that each new year flies by faster and faster as we get busier and busier. But we have accomplished quite a bit along the way. The ECMS calendar started off with a great inaugural ball in January with our special guest, FMA president Dr. Alan Pillersdorf. It was fun to do the photo-booth and celebrate the kick-off to a great year with so many of my colleagues and friends. Our legislative meeting was a big success. It was an opportunity for us as physicians to ask questions and give our feedback on issues that face physicians and our patients. I appreciate Representatives Clay Ingram and Doug Broxson taking an interest in our concerns and taking the time to understand our perspective on issue in healthcare legislation. The vendor fair drew a large crowd. The speed networking is a helpful activity that allows us to meet with other physicians in the area who we haven’t had the opportunity to meet before. I like to get to know the new physicians, residents and medical students as well. In addition to our traditional vendor fair and networking, we had a BIG check presentation for the Florida State University College of Medicine – both literally and in the dollar amount. Later in this issue you will see some photos of our event and can read more about the gift. But I can’t stress enough how proud I am of our members and our board for creating this endowed scholarship to give back to the FSU medical students from our area and our community as a whole. The first Doctors’ Day event got rained out, but rescheduling it worked out well. We had perfect weather for a baseball game. I enjoyed getting to see many of you there with your families. Doctors’ Day is one of my favorite events of the year because we get to relax and get to interact on an informal level.
CONTENTS It seems we have packed a lot in the first half of the year. But there is even more ahead. July brings the annual FMA meeting where our delegates will go to Orlando and put forth resolutions that will help physicians practice medicine. We have had many successes at the FMA, and our medical society has been well represented in the past four years that I have been going. In August we have our Young Physicians Section meeting, which has always had a great turnout (even from the not so young physicians). This year we will have Pat Clark coming, and she will provide us tools we can use when communicating with our representatives in politics or with the media. As you may have noticed from our last issue, communication is a topic I really enjoy because it is an essential part of being a physician. I am also looking forward to having Dr. Kevin Pho join us for our October meeting. He is the creator of the kevinmd blog, which is one of the top medical blogs in the world. He is going to share with us his experience online and in social media. This will be an interesting and timely topic. Our November CME event is also an excellent opportunity for physicians to catch up on required CME. If you need to get caught up, this event is for you. It is nice to have it all in one sitting – much more efficient than traveling across the country to pick up hours here and there. The second half of the year will be a lot of fun and very informative. I know it will fly by quickly, but I’m going to enjoy every minute of it. I look forward to having you be a part of our events as well. We appreciate your feedback, so let us know if there is anything we can do as your ECMS officers to make the second half of the year a great one!
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