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Newsletter 2025 July Issue Inside This Issue Kissel Blue Cross I am sharing a recent experience regarding Blue Cross of California denial […]

Newsletter 2025 May Issue Inside This Issue President’s Message Reflections on Medicaid: Balancing Compassion, Responsibility, and Neurosurgical Autonomy As physicians, compassion and […]

Newsletter 2025 April Issue Inside This Issue Private Practice Column Private Practice Issue 36: FAKE PLASTIC TREES: Creating Uncertainty Where Certainty is […]

Newsletter 2024 December Issue Volume 51, Number 12 Inside This Issue Brain Waves December 2024 I celebrated my 65th birthday earlier this […]

Newsletter 2023 December Issue Volume 51, Number 12 Inside This Issue President’s Message The practice of medicine continues to change apace with […]

Newsletter 2023 November Issue Volume 51, Number 10 Inside This Issue President’s Message As my term as your CANS President nears its […]

Newsletter 2023 October Issue Volume 51, Number 10 Inside This Issue President’s Message Final preparations are underway for the 2024 meeting of […]

Newsletter 2023 September Issue Volume 51, Number 9 Inside This Issue President’s Message On September 8 and 9, a delegation from your […]

Newsletter 2023 August Issue Volume 51, Number 8 Inside This Issue President’s Message I’m writing this after having concluded presiding over the […]

Newsletter 2023 July Issue Volume 51, Number 5 Inside This Issue President’s Message August is upon us, and school will start again.  […]

Newsletter 2023 June Issue Volume 51, Number 5 Inside This Issue President’s Message I’m pleased to announce that the next California Association […]

Newsletter 2023 May Issue Volume 51, Number 5 Inside This Issue President’s Message May is the month of graduation, and I want […]

Newsletter 2023 April Issue Volume 51, Number 4 Inside This Issue President’s Message April has been an eventful month for your Association. […]

Newsletter 2023 March Issue Volume 51, Number 3 Inside This Issue President’s Message As April arrives, it appears clear that California’s drought-fed […]

Newsletter 2023 February Issue Volume 50, Number 12 Inside This Issue President’s Message That COVID has been front and center of our […]

Newsletter 2023 January Issue Volume 50, Number 12 Inside This Issue President’s Message I’m honored to serve you this year as CANS […]

Newsletter 2022 December Issue Volume 50, Number 12 Inside This Issue President’s Message While we all believe that social upheavals in one […]

Newsletter 2022 November Issue Volume 50, Number 10 Inside This Issue President’s Message For several years now, even before he passed away, […]

Newsletter 2022 October Issue Volume 50, Number 10 Inside This Issue President’s Message Destiny has smiled on me yet again!—as the President […]

Newsletter 2022 September Issue Volume 50, Number 8 Inside This Issue President’s Message The 14th Amendment to our constitution was ratified in […]

Newsletter 2022 August Issue Volume 50, Number 8 Inside This Issue President’s Message – The Importance of Our Nurses American hospitals are […]

Newsletter 2022 July Issue Volume 50, Number 8 Inside This Issue President’s Message – Our Future is Bright! Another class of neurosurgery […]

Newsletter 2022 June Issue Volume 50, Number 6 Inside This Issue President’s Message – Overturning “Precedent on Precedent” Since the recent overruling […]

Newsletter 2022 May Issue Volume 50, Number 5 Inside This Issue President’s Message – Medice, cura te ipsum! The Vulgate, a IVth […]

Newsletter March 2022 Issue Volume 50, Number 3 Inside This Issue President’s Message | CANS Annual Meeting 2023: An Invitation to the […]

Newsletter February 2022 Issue Volume 50, Number 2 Inside This Issue President’s Message | Changing Needs of an Evolving Profession In the […]

Newsletter November 2021 Issue Volume 49, Number 11 Inside This Issue President’s Message This will be my penultimate newsletter message as President […]

Newsletter July 2021 Issue Volume 49, Number 7 Inside This Issue President’s Message Over the last decade, there has been an inexorable […]

Newsletter May 2021 Issue Volume 49, Number 5 Inside This Issue President’s Message Wow! What a change in only four weeks! Whatever […]

Newsletter April 2021 Issue Volume 49, Number 4 Inside This Issue President’s Message It has been an eventful month since my last […]

Newsletter March 2021 Issue Volume 49, Number 3 Inside This Issue President’s Message Since the end of February, a lot has happened […]

Newsletter February 2021 Issue Volume 49, Number 2 Inside This Issue President’s Message I certainly hope that this newsletter finds all our […]

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Newsletter December 2020 Issue Volume 48, Number 11 Inside This Issue President’s Message Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. It is […]

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