TABLE OF CONTENTS - JANUARY 2010

Medicine at the Rodeo

Since 2004, the San Antonio Livestock Exposition, Inc. (S.A.L.E.) has provided more than $1.2 million in scholarships to outstanding students in the Schools of Medicine and Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). One of UTHSCSA’s goal is to provide students practice, within their profession, in the rural and medically underserved regions of South/Central Texas. Each year, two of the scholarship recipients volunteer with the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Medical Committee. Read More...

Physician Burnout

It always begins with ‘The Call.’ That inchoate tug upon the soul that says “follow me.” Almost as if in love, one is lead by his heart in pursuit of that which he can not quite articulate. Thus embarks the student as he answers the call to a career in medicine. Indeed, a similar process occurs in the life of the future nurse, teacher, minister and counselor. Work flows effortlessly in the beginning, but after five or ten years, it seems less spontaneous. Now, more energy needs to be supplied just to keep the ball rolling. Eventually, one feels sentenced by the gods to the fate of Sisyphus (condemned to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, when the stone would fall back). How did it all end so badly? Read More...

Review - Volkswagen Touareg TDI

The “Great Recession” has changed a lot of things about modern America; and, not in the least, our car buying habits. Before 2008, more was better—more power, more luxury, more size. Now, people want less. Everyone’s thinking twice before they buy a new car—the average age of cars and light trucks on U.S. roads today is older than it’s ever been—and when folks do decide to take the plunge, they want smaller, less ostentatious, and more fuel efficient vehicles. This is a major shift that I suspect won’t reverse anytime soon. Read More...

ARTICLES & COLUMNS

Medicine at the Roedo
President’s Message
Metropolitan Health H1N1 Update
BCMS Alliance Welcomes Executive Board Members
Physician Burnout
Federal Stimulus Funds
Health Care Reform Letter to the President, Part 2
BCMS Position on Health Care Reform
Auto Review
Medical Miracles
Medicine at the Rodeo