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PER V The New Yoric Academy of Medicine Gift from the Publisher Digitized by the Internet Archive 2016 in https;//archive.org/details/journalofmississ33unse <^'V' OF THE MISSISSIPPI STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JANUARY 1992 NA^‘ y^w H^v€^ ki^o\/if WA«rh a,cl^y Thatfriendlymanwhoanswers staffatMMRCshowedhimthat rebuildingpatients’livesthat thephoneatMMRCdoesn’tsound lifegoeson. makes MMRCtheSouth’sleading likethesameonewhoshowedup “Everybodywaswillingtowork rehabilitationcenter. Ifyoudon’t 16yearsagoatourfrontdoor. withme,”hesays.“AllIhadtodo believe it,justgive ourswitch- A tragiccarwreck hadleft wastry. Mylifedidn’thavetoend board acall. LamarMyersaquadriplegic. And the nightofthat carwreck.” You'll heara lot more than a hadleft him somepretty bitter Through monthsofphysical, simple“hello”on the otherend feelingstotryanddeal with. occupational and recreational oftheline.You’llhearthevoiceof Fortunately, he wasn’t left to therapy, Lamargainedawhole afriendwhoneversaidgoodbye. dealwiththemalone.Becausethe newrespectforlife.Andthestaff MMRC MMRC at neverstopped caring. MISSISSIPPIMETHODIST It’sthat commitment to REHABILITATIONCENTER mISuSOEWas-t2y6\'UooodrroHU'H0W0il^s2o2n.JUa6c?k2son,MS^92Ifi JOURNAL JANUARY 1992 VOLUME XXXIII NUMBER 1 SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES Bacteriology of Middle Ear Effusions 1 C. Ron Cannon, MD, FACS; Bryan M. Clay, MD and Jo Perkins Wilson, MD, FACP Adjuvant Therapy in Primary Breast Cancer: Defining 5 Editor MyronW. Lockey,MD the Role ofSystemic Therapy and Radiotherapy MD Joseph Salloum, Editor Emeritus MD W.Moncure Dabney, SPECIAL ARTICLE AssociateEditors MD Health Access Mississippi 11 George E. Abraham, MD Joseph E. Johnston, EDITORIALS Managing Editor VirginiaLeeCocke The "Good Ole Days*’ 20 MD PublicationsCommittee James C. Waites, RichardC. Miller,MD Resolve To Be Involved 21 Chairman Myron W. Lockey, MD MD William E. Godfrey, MD A. JeraldJackson, DEPARTMENTS andtheeditors TheAssociation From the University ofMississippi Medical Center 24 MD JamesC.Waites, Medical Organization 25 President Meetings Calendar 29 MD William C. Gates, Personals 30 President-Elect DonQ. Mitchell,MD Placement Service 36 Secretary-Treasurer H. VannCraig,MD Speaker Eric A. McVey,ID,MD ViceSpeaker Charles L. Mathews ExecutiveDirector NATIONALADVERTISINGBUREAU;StateMedicalJournalAdvertisingBureau,Inc.,711 SouthBlvd.,OakPark,Illinois60302.Phone708/383-8800. Copyright©1992,MississippiStateMedicalAssociation.Theviewsexpressedinthispublicationreflecttheopinionsoftheauthorsanddonotnecessarilystatetheopinionsorpolicies oftheMississippiStateMedicalAssociation. THEJOURNALOFTHE MISSISSIPPISTATEMEDICALASSOCIATION (ISSN0026-6393) isownedandpublishedmonthlybythe MississippiState Medical Association, founded 1856,at735RivereideDrive,Jackson,Mississippi39202.Subscriptionrate,$35.00perannum;$45.00perannumforforeignsubscriptions;$3.00percopy,asavailable. Advertisingratesfurnishedonrequest.PrintedbyTheOvidBellPre.ss,Inc.,Fulton,Missouri.Sccond-clitsspostagepaidatJackson, Mississippi,andatadditionalmailingoffices. POSTMASTER:sendaddresschangestoMississippiStateMedicalAssociation,P.O.Box5229,Jackson, Mississippi,392fl6-522'3. ! Systems Corporation Medical Systems Consultants Suite 2108, First National Bank Building Mobile, Alabama 36602 1-800-239-1717 (In Mobile, call 432-1313) Universal Electronic Billing Comparisons In1990, the administrative cost ofprocessingapaperclaim approximated $3.50. Utilization of our Electronic Billing Systemcan todayreduce costs to $1.50perclaim, approximatdy. II Reimbursementfrom paperclaims can take 7-8 weeks versus 2-3 weeksfrom Electronic Claims.