This week, a member requested opinions regarding the timing of surgery for patients with arthritic deformity.  Other listserv users weighed in with their expertise and advice based on their experience.  Do you have any useful advice to share on this topic?
 
Do you have a complicated case for which you would like a second opinion, or would benefit from the experiences of your peers?
 
If you have already signed up for the ASSH Physician Listserv, you can contribute to the discussion by visiting the archives and scrolling down to the thread entitled "When is surgery for deformity required."  If you don't remember your Listserv password, you can reset your password here.
 
The ASSH Physician Listserv is a place where members can collaborate on clinical questions, share tips and techniques and interact with other members.  To sign up for the Listserv, visit the Listserv page.

 

 

Give a man a paper program, and he will learn at the Annual Meeting, but teach a man to use our meeting app, and he will learn for a lifetime. 

 

How, you say?  Well the app is full of useful tools and incredible content, and its search functionality takes you right to what you need.  So when  you’re in clinic in January and you want to recall that great diagnosis tip from the meeting in October, just pull out your phone, and search the app.   And two months later when you want to review the podcast of a new technique you’d like to use, it’ll be waiting for you, still on the app.  Let’s say you met a new colleague, and instead of scribbling her name in your paper program, to be forever forgotten, you took a note in the app.  Now when you run into her again at the 2014 meeting, you can quickly search your notes from last year, and shake her hand without skipping a beat, “Claudia!  Great to see you again.  Are you still at Northwestern?” 

  

The app is not just a guide to the meeting; it can be used to discover new things and to help you implement what you’ve learned for months and even years after you leave San Francisco.  So join us for the kick-off to another year of lifelong learning at the 2013 ASSH Annual Meeting.