KCMS Active in Olympia This Week
Your King County Medical Society has been active in advocating for policy improvement on issues that the KCMS delegates written. Earlier this week, several KCMS members and your CEO Nancy L. Belcher testified in Olympia for three (3) bills that aligned with our delegation's goals. The first was SB 6288 - Creating the Washington Office of Firearm Violence Prevention. This [...]
WSMA Adopts KCMS Resolution to Ban Flavored E-cigarette Sales
King County Medical Society (KCMS) and WSMA lead a resounding healthcare endorsement of E-Cigarette legislation! The WA State Medical Association House of Delegates has voted overwhelmingly to adopt KCMS's resolution to permanently ban flavored e-cigarettes in WA State. In September Governor Jay Inslee issued an executive order asking for an emergency ban on flavored vaping products. The Board of Health [...]
Lead Testing Days
As you may have already heard, King County Medical Society is proud to be working with Public Health Seattle and King County on the Lead Testing Days Program: a series of lead screening events held this summer throughout King County. We are excited to provide families with free lead testing and to increase prevention and awareness of lead poisoning, particularly [...]
From the President: A little communication can go a long way
Greetings my esteemed colleagues, Recently I have found myself thinking quite a bit about communications and the growing lack of peer-to-peer communication. This lack of communication makes my work and caring for my patients even more complicated. Throughout my career I have tried to foster supportive, meaningful relationships with my fellow physicians, which is one of the reasons I have [...]
From the CEO – Your voices amplified
Greetings to our King County Medical Society members, As I discussed in last month’s letter to membership, King County Medical Society is working hard to increase your impact on medical policy decisions specifically in King County. But sometimes the issues go far beyond. After determining a proposed physician fee increase by the Washington Medical Commission (WMC) was excessive and unjustified, [...]
Listen: Docs Talk #13 – The Renaissance Doc – Ellen Derrick, MD – BoxBar Vascular
From burnout to surgical standards, King County Medical Society board member Ellen Derrick, MD is at the forefront of many of the critical issues facing physicians and patients alike. The esteemed vascular surgeon oversees her independent practice while serving on several medical boards, is deeply involved in a system-wide EMR integration for one of the nation's largest providers, and still [...]