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DEPARTMENTS
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Editor's Page
The Trouble With How You're Paid for Surgery
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
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Ideas That Work
• Share profits with staff
• No more expired supplies
• Step-by-step tech training
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Special Report: Tainted Steroids
The Latest on the Deadly Meningitis Outbreak
Stephanie Wasek | Features Editor
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Business Advisor
A Tale of 2 ASCs Merging
Goran Dragolovic, MBA
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Infection Prevention
Test Your Instrument Reprocessing Acumen
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Linda R. Greene, RN, MPS, CIC
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Prepared Pharmaceuticals
The fungal meningitis outbreak
has raised safety concerns.
Sheldon S. Sones, RPh, FASCP
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133 Safety
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5 Keys to Running Effective Fire Drills
Deborah Rideout, RN, BSN, CNOR
137 Cutting Remarks
Sales Pitches or Curveballs?
John D. Kelly IV, MD
140 Behind Closed Doors
Petty Grievances
Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR
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O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | N O V E M B E R 2012