Are You Trauma Informed? Find out in the January edition of the Journal.
Trauma early in life can have lasting impacts on health, and in Arkansas, the statistics are even more alarming. Over 54% of Arkansas children have one or more Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE), and research is now showing that ACEs can be a root cause of many adult health…
Arkansas Supreme Court Rules Ballot Signatures Must Be Counted
Today the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that the Arkansas Secretary of State must continue to count the ballot referendum signatures that were collected earlier this year to place Act 579 (optometric surgery) on next year’s ballot. The lawsuit, brought by Safe Surgery Arkansas, challenged the Secretary of State’s…
Walmart to Continue Accepting Paper Prescriptions
Walmart has announced they are delaying a January 1, 2020 policy on requiring electronic prescriptions for controlled substances and would continue to receive paper prescriptions for opioids and anti-depressants at all their locations. The planned move to e-prescribing was part of the retailer’s efforts to reduce the opioid…
Geriatrics: A Challenging and Rewarding Subspecialty
In our December edition of the Journal, we highlight the challenges and rewards of physicians who specialize in geriatrics. "I think a lot of people aren’t interested in older folks, but it’s a treat to me to care for them and honor them,” said Geriatrician Homer Brooks, MD,…
Nominating Committee for 2020
Members of the AMS Nominating Committee will be meeting soon to prepare the 2020-2021 slate of officers to be elected at the annual meeting on May 1, 2020. The committee is required to submit the slate of officers to AMS no later than February 1, 2020. Positions to…
Jenkins, Chance Join AMS Board of Trustees
The Arkansas Medical Society Board of Trustees welcomes two board members to the group. Parker Jenkins, MD, serves as District 4 Trustee in southeast Arkansas, and Joshua Chance, MD, rejoins the board, serving as District 8 Trustee in Pulaski County. Dr. Parker, family practice physician, joined Family Health…
Reform of Arkansas Medicaid’s Drug Utilization Review Board
In recent years, physicians treating Medicaid patients have experienced significant challenges with the prior authorization and re-authorization process in Medicaid. The Arkansas Medicaid Drug Utilization Review (DUR) board is responsible for making clinical recommendations to the Arkansas Medicaid Pharmacy Program regarding the use of restrictions including prior authorization…
A Veterans Day Salute
The following commentary was written by District 9 Trustee Robert Zimmerman, MD, PhD for the November edition of the Journal. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated, igniting World War I. The U.S. formally entered the global conflict in April of 1917. As American…
Opioid Tales – Games Patients Play
From our Executive Vice President, David Wroten: I’m having dinner with one of my favorite physician friends a few weeks ago. He’s an anesthesiologist specializing in pain management. We don’t usually talk shop, but that night he was telling me about a recent experience with a patient (no,…
AMS Publications Honored with Awards
The Arkansas Medical Society was honored as a Prism Award finalist and winner at the 2019 ARcom Award ceremony, held on Thursday, September 12, at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock. The Prism Awards were presented by the Arkansas chapter of the Public Relations Society of…
Dealing with Drug-Seeking Patients
We are very excited about the November issue of the Journal that will be hitting mailboxes in the next few days. The Journal talked with member physicians about the drain of time and resources that patients can cause when they exhibit "drug seeking" behaviors. You can read "Dealing…